Ph.D. Computational Biophysics, University of Maryland, College Park
Founder, President & CEO · Banga, Inc. | Formerly Meta & Google
Email: hongchengxu123 AT gmail.com
Links: [Google Scholar] [GitHub] [LinkedIn] [Resume] [Instagram] [YouTube] [Banga Studio]
Project Areas: game engineering · AI agents · large-scale infrastructure · scientific computing
Personal Interests: Bird photography, Spanish (B2 level), Game Development
I'm the founder of Banga, Inc. (Banga Studio), an independent game studio in Foster City, California. I build games for the browser and Steam — roguelike.run, WebHack, TavernSim — the deterministic card-game engine beneath them, and AI agents that play-test them. Before founding Banga in 2026 I was a software engineer at Meta (ads retrieval and signal ingestion, 2024–2026) and at Google (YouTube client infrastructure, 2019–2024; Google Research drug discovery, 2021–2023), after a PhD at the University of Maryland on large-scale molecular simulation and machine-learning-driven scientific computing.
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
