My Courses

Teaching is part of my research life. Below are some courses I have developed or led—core chemistry fundamentals as well as interdisciplinary courses that bring machine learning into the material sciences.

Course List

Frontiers in AI for Science

Graduate / advanced undergrad

Semester: Every semester | Audience: Students from all disciplines

Offered by Peking University's School of Materials Science and Engineering as an Engineering Innovation Education course, this series invites leading international scholars in AI, materials science, and related fields to present advances in AI for Science.

AI for Scienceinterdisciplinary sciencefrontier lecturesresearch paradigms
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Machine Learning in Materials Science

Graduate / advanced undergrad

Semester: Fall | Audience: graduate students in chemistry, materials, and related interdisciplinary fields

For researchers in the material sciences, this course introduces methods and applications of machine learning and deep learning in molecular representation, property prediction, retrosynthesis, and materials discovery. Balancing algorithmic principles with research practice, it helps students truly apply AI tools to their own work.

graph neural networksproperty predictionretrosynthesismaterials discovery
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Chemoinformatics

Graduate / advanced undergrad

Semester: Spring | Audience: graduate students in chemistry, pharmacy, and related interdisciplinary fields

Introduces methods for acquiring, managing, and computationally modeling chemical information—covering molecular representation and descriptors, chemical databases, quantitative structure–activity relationships (QSAR), and the chemoinformatics toolchain. The course helps researchers efficiently organize molecular data with computational means, accelerating the translation from data to insight.

molecular representationQSARchemical databaseschemical big data
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Historical Courses

Organic Chemistry

Core undergraduate course

Status: discontinued | Offered: 2015–2021 | Audience: undergraduates in chemistry and related majors

A systematic introduction to the structure, properties, reaction mechanisms, and synthesis methods of organic compounds—a core foundation for chemistry and related majors. The course emphasizes understanding reaction essence through electronic and steric effects, building intuition for molecular structure and transformation.

organic synthesisreaction mechanismsstereochemistry
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Inorganic Chemistry Seminar

Undergraduate seminar

Status: discontinued | Offered: 2015–2021 | Audience: undergraduates in chemistry and related majors

A small-group seminar deepening core concepts in element chemistry, coordination chemistry, and inorganic reaction mechanisms through literature reading and peer discussion.

element chemistrycoordination chemistrysmall-group seminar
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Field Internship

Required undergraduate practicum

Status: discontinued | Offered: 2015–2021 | Audience: undergraduates in the Department of Energy and Resources Engineering

A required practicum that builds a first-hand view of the energy and chemical industry chain through on-site visits to energy, chemical, and materials companies.

industrial awarenessengineering practiceon-site visits
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Energy Chemistry

Graduate foundation course

Status: discontinued | Offered: 2015–2021 | Audience: graduate students in energy, materials, and related interdisciplinary fields

A chemical-engineering foundation course covering the chemical principles of energy conversion—electrochemical storage, solar conversion, and hydrogen energy.

energy conversionelectrochemical storageclean energy
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Chemical Reaction Engineering

Graduate foundation course

Status: discontinued | Offered: 2015–2021 | Audience: graduate students in energy, materials, and related interdisciplinary fields

A chemical-engineering foundation course on reaction kinetics, reactor design, and transport–reaction coupling, building the ability to analyze and design reaction processes.

reaction kineticsreactor designtransport phenomena
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Course Materials & Lecture Notes

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