News

November 17-21. Rui attended the APS Division of Plasma Physics (DPP) Annual Meeting in Long Beach, CA.

October 14, 2025. Rui's co-authored article is published in Journal of the American Chemical Society: Cascade mechanochemical transformation of a benzolarrelane polymer. [JACS Link]

October 3, 2025. Rui attended the SoCal Research Computing & Data Symposium held at Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, CA. 

September 29, 2025. Rui received the Powell Faculty Research Award from the Charles Lee Powell Foundation and USC. Congratulations! 

August 25, 2025. Zimeng (Amber) Jia joins the group as a graduate student. Welcome Amber! 

June 3, 2025. Qingjie (Brion) Song joins the group as a graduate student. Welcome Brion!

May 28, 2025. Joe Rees joins the group as a graduate student. Welcome Joe! 

April 19, 2025. Boyuan and Rui attended the 18th Southern California Flow Physics Symposium (SoCal Fluids XVIII) hosted at USC.

March 24-27, 2025. Rui attended the ACS Spring 2025 Meeting in San Diego, CA, and presented the following talk in the ENFL division:

• GPU-based Quantum Chemistry Computational Modeling for Sustainable Fuel Combustion.​ [Abstract Link]

March 16-19, 2025. Boyuan and Rui attended the 14th US National Combustion Meeting in Boston, MA. 

February 19, 2025. Rui's co-authored review article is published in Annual Review of Physical Chemistry: Ultrafast Events in Electrocyclic Ring-Opening Reactions. [ARPC Link] [ChemRxiv] 

February 18, 2025. Andrés Chamorro Domenech joins the group as a graduate student. Welcome Andres! 

January 13, 2025. Boyuan Yu joins the group as a ​​​graduate student. Welcome Boyuan! 

January 6, 2025. Rui attended the 2025 AIAA Scitech conference in Orlando, FL. We have one collaboration work presented in this conference:

• ​Numerical Investigation of SF6 Injection Into Supersonic Reacting Flow for Reentry Communications Blackout Alleviation. [AIAA Proceeding Link]

January 1, 2025. Rui starts as a faculty in USC Viterbi AME, and the Xu Research Group is launched!