Dr. Siyuan Chen

Postdoctoral Research Scholar

Education

• Ph.D. in Physics, College of William & Mary (2023)
• B.S. in Physics, University of Science and Technology of China (2016)

Professional Affiliations

• American Physical Society (APS)

Areas of Interest

• Electronic structure
• Quantum embedding theory
• Quantum Monte Carlo

Experience

• 2023-present: Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Chicago
• 2019-2023: Research Intern (2019) and Visiting Student, Flatiron Institute
• 2018-2023: Graduate Researcher, College of William & Mary

Publications

• S. Chen, Y. Yang, M. Morales, and S. Zhang
  Algorithm for branching and population control in correlated sampling
  Phys. Rev. Research 5, 043169 (2023).
• S. Chen and S. Zhang
  Computation of forces and stresses in solids: Towards accurate structural optimization with auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo
  Phys. Rev. B 107, 195150 (2023).
• A. Aouina, M. Gatti, S. Chen, S. Zhang, and L. Reining
  Accurate Kohn-Sham auxiliary system from the ground-state density of solids
  Phys. Rev. B 107, 195123 (2023).
• S. Chen and S. Zhang
  A structural optimization algorithm with stochastic forces and stresses
  Nat. Comput. Sci. 2, 736–744 (2022).
• S. Chen, M. Motta, F. Ma, and S. Zhang
  Ab initio electronic density in solids by many-body plane-wave auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo calculations
  Phys. Rev. B 103, 075138 (2021).

Awards and Academic Achievements

• The Henry Krakauer Dissertation Award, College of William & Mary, 2023
• Invited speaker at 35th Workshop on Recent Developments in Electronic Structure Methods, June 2023
• Walter J. Zable Physics Fellowship, College of William & Mary, 2017