Years Experience Project

SIYANG YANG, Ph.D. *** Bellflower Ave #**, Sunnyvale, CA

94086

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OBJECTIVE

Highly self-motivated and target-oriented computational scientist with

exceptional track record seeking a computational scientist position

utilizing my expertise in numerical programming and scientific modeling

QUALIFICATIONS

. Extraordinary scientific programmer with 12 years experience of coding

from scratches

. Multidisciplinary knowledge in physics, chemistry, mathematics and life

science with excellent track record

. Outstanding research with 8 high-profile publications and distinguished

scholar as recipient of national fellowship

. Strong leadership with experience of instructing 11 students and co-

founding Berkeley Asian Association in Lawrence National Lab

. Good and productive team-worker with experience of collaboration with 10+

professors internationally

. Well-trained ability to work independently: published innovative PhD work

when supervisor was on sabbatical for one year

. Excellent verbal and presentation skill in publishing and oral

presentations in >10 national and international scientific conferences

. Strong organization and instruction skill with Honor of dean-awarded best

teaching assistant for courses with 100+ students

. Superior communication and multitasking skills for completing large

project in complicated team environment

EDUCATION

Ph. D. University of California, Berkeley Department of Chemistry

GPA 3.97/4.00 2001-2006

B.Sc. National University of Singapore Computational Science &

Physics GPA 3.92/4.00 1995-1999

EXPERIENCE

PostDoc Stanford University Dept of Chemistry

2008-present

Invited Honor-speaker on Asia-Pacific Conferences on Theoretical and

Computational Chemistry for the development of better ab initio molecular

dynamics algorithms.

. Wrote large suite of Fortran codes to investigate quantum physics in

proton transfer in proteins and DNA bases

. Developed cutting-edge algorithms to simulate ab initio molecular

dynamics of femtosecond laser spectroscopy

PostDoc University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Chemical & Life Science Lab 2006-2008

Awarded by Quantitative Biology and Modeling Initiative (Michigan) and

Material Computational Center (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

for the development and application of efficient molecular dynamics methods

to biomolecules.

. Built new statistical model for implementing boot-strapping algorithm

aiding accurate data analysis of experimental data

. Designed effective theories and models accounting for the quantum effects

in proton transfer in various bio-molecules and proteins

. Performed state-of-art computation on designing material/molecular motors

efficiently utilizing solar energy

Graduate University of California, Berkeley Dept of Chemistry

2001-2006

Awarded Petroleum Research Fund of American Chemical Society; Co-founder of

Berkeley Lab Asian Association in Lawrence Berkeley National Lab;

Collaboration with AMBER software R&D team.

. Applied parallel computation to solve linear algebra problem: solved

eigenvalue problem for large and sparse Hamiltonian matrix

. Innovated a new theory for accurately calculating reaction rates of

enzymes

. Calculated free energy of molecules in gas phase and in solution using

adaptive umbrella sampling

. Programmed Fortran and C codes to calculate kinetic isotope effect of

enzymes using thermodynamic integration technique

. Derived new path-integral Monte-Carlo formulation for simulating chemical

dynamics

Dean's Research Fellow National University of Singapore Dept of

Computational Science 1999-2001

Awarded Legen Industrial Medal for Best Research Project in Science in

Singapore

. Wrote classical molecular dynamics algorithm to simulate polymer dynamics

in organic solution

. Experienced with computer-aided drug design: (i) compute drug resistant

mutations in proteins, (ii) find putative protein targets of nucleic acid

targeting drug by studying the dynamics of proteins

. Information processing and computer image modeling

. Improved and applied finite element method to solve partial differential

equations in mathematics and finance

SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMMING SKILLS

. Experienced High Performance Computation programmer of NERSC (National

Energy Research Scientific Computing Center)

. 12-year experience with UNIX/Linux OS and programming using C/C++,

Fortran, MPI and Matlab

. Fluency with Mathematica, maple, UNIX script languages, KaleidaGraph,

Octave, Gnuplot, VMD, MOLEKEL and SigmaPlot

. Experience with computational electromagnetics, image and signal

processing and finite element methods

. Knowledge of computer architecture and assembly language

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