
Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 1986
B.S., Peking University (China) 1982
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Wang, Hao, and Weitao Yang. “Determining polarizable force fields with electrostatic potentials from quantum mechanical linear response theory..” The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 144, no. 22, June 2016. Epmc, doi:10.1063/1.4953558. Full Text
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Shen, Lin, and Weitao Yang. “Quantum Mechanics/Molecular Mechanics Method Combined with Hybrid All-Atom and Coarse-Grained Model: Theory and Application on Redox Potential Calculations..” Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, vol. 12, no. 4, Apr. 2016, pp. 2017–27. Epmc, doi:10.1021/acs.jctc.5b01107. Full Text
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Li, Chen, et al. “Gentlest ascent dynamics for calculating first excited state and exploring energy landscape of Kohn-Sham density functionals..” The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 143, no. 22, Dec. 2015. Epmc, doi:10.1063/1.4936411. Full Text