2007, B.S. Polymer Science, Fudan University 2007, 2nd B.S. Computer Science, Fudan University 2013, Ph.D. Chemistry, The University of Alabama Professional Employment Mingyang Chen received his PhD (2013) under supervision of Prof. David A. Dixon (UA-USA) and moved to National Center of Computational Sciences at Oak Ridge National Laboratory as a post-doc (2013-2016) under supervision of Dr. T.P. Straatsma. In 2016, he joined CSRC (Beijing) as a Research Assistant Professor.

Catalysis Advanced inorganic materials Global optimization algorithms for molecular structures Ultra-small nanoparticles of metal and metal oxide Quantum Chemistry software development

Mingyang Chen, T.P. Straatsma, and David A. Dixon, Molecular and Dissociative Adsorption of Water on (TiO2)n Clusters, n = 1–4,J. Phys. Chem. A 2015, 119, 11406-11421. Mingyang Chen, Andrew R. Felmy and David A. Dixon, Structures and Stabilities of (MgO)n Nanoclusters,J. Phys. Chem. A, 2014, 118, 3136-3146. Mingyang Chen and David A. Dixon, Tree Growth—Hybrid Genetic Algorithm for Predicting the Structure of Small (TiO2)n, n = 2–13, Nanoclusters,J. Chem. Theory and Comp., 2013, 9, 3189-3200. Mingyang Chen, Amanda Stott, Shenggang Li, and David A. Dixon, Construction of a Robust, Large-scale, Collaborative Database for Raw Data in Computational Chemistry: The Collaborative Chemistry Database Tool (CCDBT),J. Mol. Graph. Model. 2012, 34, 67-75. Mingyang Chen, Jason E. Dyer,Bruce C. Gates, Alexander Katz, and David A. Dixon, Structures and Stability of Irn(CO)m,Mol. Phys.,2012, 110, 1977-1992. - Special Issue: Scaling Mount Impossible: A Festschrift for Dudley Herschbach.