Wang, Jiacheng

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Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Massachusetts Amherst
ORCID: 0000-0002-7948-8525
Email: jiachengwang@umass.edu

Research Interests

  • First-Principles Methods on Lithium Solid Electrolytes

  • Metabolic Modeling of Synthetic Microbial Communities

  • Multi-Scale Simulation on Membrane Separation Processes

Education

Ph.D., University of Massachusetts Amherst, present

M.S., Nanjing Tech University, 2020

B.S., Nanjing Tech University, 2017

Work Experience

Material and Analytical Sciences Co-Op, Boehringer Ingelheim, Aug 2024 - Feb 2025

  • Applied quantum mechanics, molecular docking, and machine learning to predict the site of metabolism in cytochrome P450 enzymes.

  • Developed a database compiling information on the oxidative degradation of drug APIs from the literature.

Software Quality Engineer, Aspen Technology, Jul 2020 - May 2021

  • Executed automation tests for the products Aspen Basic Engineering (ABE), Aspen Exchanger Design & Rating (EDR) and Aspen Economic Evaluation (EE).

  • Migrated automation scripts from SilkTest to Silk4NET for the EE product.

Publications

Full list of publications in Google Scholar

Awards

  • Second Place, IALS Research Image Competition, 2023

  • First Prize, China Post-Graduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling, 2018

  • Third Prize, National College Students Chemical Engineering Design Competition, 2016

  • Honorable Mention, The Mathematical Contest in Modeling, 2016