FIVE more talks to go!

Go Brewins! 🍺

Halfway done... Today I'll give one talk on thermal catalysis (#5, ensemble-based kinetics & computational spectroscopy), and another one on electrocatalysis (#6, AIMD with explicit electrolyte/potential).

It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them. While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change. And they’re right.

Politically depressed… my coping mechanism is doing science

My feeling about the overuse of “ensemble” recently…

The scene reminds me of a stat mech paper… Entangled Granular Media journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/1…

Glad to be invited to share my research on catalyst restructuring! The time's 6pm PST on Dec 5th. Register via the link 👇

Mitigating racial bias from LLMs is a lot easier than removing it from humans! Can’t believe this happened at the best AI conference NeurIPS Conference We have ethical reviews for authors, but missed it for invited speakers? 😡

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

The 2026 theme is "Autonomous Discovery Across Scales." From molecular design to industrial scale-up, we will explore how AI, automation, and data-driven approaches are accelerating breakthroughs across materials, energy, and chemical sciences. Excited for the discussions ahead!

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Can't wait to be back in LA tmr for #APSSummit25! I’ll attend the GERA Energy Workshop on Sunday and stay through Friday when I’ll be chairing and speaking at DCOMP's MAR-W49 session. Looking forward to catching up and making new friends during the week!👋 #APS2025

The GOCIA paper is selected as a PCCP HOT article! Now Open Access at: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

Glad to have contributed to this work! We combine GC-DFT, AIMD with explicit solvents, and thermodynamic integration to study the fixed-potential free energetics of electrochemical reactions!

This work is powered by EChO package which enables painless constant-potential free energy calculation via thermodynamic integration. EChO handles the electronic degree of freedom and needs no patching/recompiling of the electronic structure program. Link: github.com/zishengz/echo/…

Arrived in Seattle and excited about the week of 2025 MRS Spring Meeting ahead! I will give two talks, MT04.02.02 (Mon) and MT05.02.02 (Tue) I'm also co-chair the MT05.04 session with Prof. Xin Qi on Wed. Looking forward to catching up with friends in the materials community!

A photo I took is featured in the California Academy of Sciences’ press release on the 10th anniversary of the City Nature Challenge! XD calendar.calacademy.org/press/releases…