Dr. Siyuan Chen
The University of Chicago
Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering
5640 South Ellis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60637
Phone: (773) 834-7392
Email: schen24 at uchicago.edu
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
- 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
- Invited speaker at 35th Workshop on Recent Developments in Electronic Structure Methods, June 2023
- Walter J. Zable Physics Fellowship, College of William & Mary, 2017