Ph.D. Computational Biophysics, University of Maryland, College Park
Senior Software Engineer at Google
Email: hongchengxu123 AT gmail.com
Links: [Google Scholar] [GitHub] [LinkedIn] [Resume] [Instagram] [YouTube]
Project Areas: client infrastructure, reliability optimization, scientific visualization, testing framework, mobile development, machine learning, computational simulation
Personal Interests: Bird photography, Spanish (B2 level), Game Development
Hongcheng works on client infrastructure in YouTube, and optimizes video transfer reliability. He also applies active learning on protein-ligand free energy prediction for drug discovery.
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
