Ph.D. Computational Biophysics, University of Maryland, College Park
Senior Software Engineer @ Meta | Formerly Google
Email: hongchengxu123 AT gmail.com
Links: [Google Scholar] [GitHub] [LinkedIn] [Resume] [Instagram] [YouTube]
Project Areas: infrastructure optimization, ads recommendation, machine learning, computer simulation
Personal Interests: Bird photography, Spanish (B2 level), Game Development
Hongcheng works on Facebook ads monetization in Meta, and optimizes ads recommendation and invalidation pipeline. Previously, he worked on optimizing client infrastructure in YouTube and active learning drug discovery in Google Research.
Optimizing active learning for free energy calculations, J Thompson, W P Patricks, J A Feng, N A Pabon, H Xu, B B Goldman, ... & F York, Artificial Intelligence in the Life Sciences, 2022
Pathways of amyloid-beta absorption and aggregation in a membranous environment, A Sahoo, H Xu, S Matysiak, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2019
Mesoporous encapsulated chiral nanogold for use in enantioselective reactions, Y Zhou, H Sun, H Xu, S Matysiak, J Ren, X Qu, Angewandte Chemie, 2018
How Hydrophobic Hydration Destabilizes Surfactant Micelles at Low Temperature: A Coarse-Grained Simulation Study, GS Custer, H Xu, S Matysiak, P Das, Langmuir, 2018
Influence of Monovalent Cation Size on Nanodomain Formation in Anionic–Zwitterionic Mixed Bilayers, SJ Ganesan, H Xu, S Matysiak, The Journal of Physical Chemistry B (co-first author), 2017
Effect of pH on chitosan hydrogel polymer network structure, H Xu, S Matysiak, Chemical Communications, 2017
Effect of lipid head group interactions on membrane properties and membrane-induced cationic β-hairpin folding, SJ Ganesan, H Xu, S Matysiak, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (co-first author), 2016
