I’m in my last year of chemistry and computer science at UBC, where I dabble at the intersection of molecules, systems and algorithms. I enjoy learning about how and why things work, especially through the lens of analytical and physical chemistry. Some questions I have are:
- how can computation be applied to chemical chaos?
- how can we develop more efficient and robust methods to predict and simulate chemical properties from first principles?
- and in the meantine, how can we develop scienfitically accurate machine learning tools for chemistry?
Research
- 2025: Continuing my time in the Hein lab, working on predictive and data-driven HPLC method development.
- 2024: Joined the Hein lab to explore the use of LLMs for generating code for self-driving labs. Implemented self-consistent field convergence methods in Psi4 with the Wang group.
- 2022 - 2024: Conducted protein solvation simulations for our 2023 project on cell-free protein synthesis. Wrote a DNA encoding/decoding pipeline, genetic algorithm for primer generation, and led sustainability efforts for our 2024 project on DNA storage.
- 2021: Implemented a NLP pipeline to extract information from electronic health records part of PROOF Centre.
Publications
Zhang, W.; Guy, M. A.; Yang, J.; Hao, L.; Liu, J.; Hawkins, J.; Mustakis, I. G.; Monfette, S.; Hein, J. E. Leveraging GPT-4 to Transform Chemistry from Paper to Practice. Digital Discovery 2024. https://doi.org/10.1039/d4dd00248b.
Chen, Y.; Hao, L.; Zou, V. Z.; Hollander, Z.; Ng, R. T.; Isaac, K. V. Automated Medical Chart Review for Breast Cancer Outcomes Research: A Novel Natural Lan- guage Processing Extraction System. BMC Medical Research Methodology 2022, 22 (1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-022-01583-z.
Work
- 2022: Worked on writing automated tests for 2FA at Capital One.
- 2021: Implemented tools for easier prototyping with Microsoft Graph API.