Rong (Rocky) Ye

Hi, I'm Rong (Rocky) Ye. I am trained as a physical chemist with a strong track record in heterogeneous catalysis (with a background in homogeneous catalysis). 

I received my B.E. from the Department of Polymeric Material and Engineering at Sun Yat-Sen University (Guangzhou, China). Then I came to the U.S. for graduate research. I received my Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, gaining core expertise in the synthesis, characterization, and mechanistic studies of nano-catalysts under the advisement of Profs. Gabor A Somorjai and F. Dean Toste. I joined the lab of Prof. Peng Chen at Cornell University as a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow and used single-molecule imaging and statistical methods to study surface chemistry and catalysis. 

Now I am co-advised by (in alphabetical order) Profs. Bryan Goldsmith, Suljo Linic, Eranda Nikolla, and Nirala Singh to work on applying machine learning to heterogeneous catalysis research.