CV

Shengli (Bruce) Jiang

Assistant Professor · shengli@mailbox.sc.edu · Columbia, SC

Academic Appointments

2026 – Present Department of Chemical Engineering, Columbia, SC

Assistant Professor

University of South Carolina

Principal Investigator, Computational Materials and Product Design (CMPD) Laboratory.

2023 – 2026 Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Princeton, NJ

Postdoctoral Associate

Princeton University

Polymer design using machine learning and molecular dynamics simulations. Advisor: Michael A. Webb.

2024 – 2025 Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Princeton, NJ

Lecturer

Princeton University

Machine Learning in Chemical Science and Engineering.

Education

2023 Madison, WI

Ph.D., Chemical Engineering

University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Minor in Computer Science; advisor: Victor M. Zavala.
  • Thesis: Data Representations and Transformations in Chemical Engineering.
2018 La Jolla, CA

B.S., Chemical Engineering

University of California, San Diego
  • Minor in Nano Engineering; advisor: Zheng Chen.

Additional Research Experience

2022 Chemometrics and Artificial Intelligence Group, Freeport, TX

Research Intern

Dow Chemical

Electricity price forecasting; large language models for quality note analysis.

2020 Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Lemont, IL

Givens Associate

Argonne National Laboratory

Graph neural architecture search for molecular property prediction.

Honors and Awards

2020

Givens Associate Fellowship

Argonne National Laboratory
2020

Poster Award

Computing in Engineering Forum, University of Wisconsin-Madison
2019

Travel Award

Machine Learning in Science and Engineering (MLSE), Georgia Institute of Technology
2014–2018

Provost Honors

University of California, San Diego

Professional Services

Reviewer

Peer Review

Journals: Chemical Reviews; Nature Communications; npj Computational Materials; Environmental Science & Technology; Chemical Science; Communications Chemistry; Waste Management; Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling; Molecular Systems Design & Engineering; Chemical Engineering Science; Computers & Chemical Engineering; Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence; Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research; Computational Materials Science; RSC Advances; Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical; ACS Omega; Journal of Chemical Physics; Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering; Expert Systems With Applications; Digital Discovery; Journal of Computational Physics; Chemical Engineering Journal Advances; Engineering Reports; Chinese Journal of Chemical Engineering.

  • Conferences: American Control Conference; IEEE Conference on Decision and Control.

Professional Affiliations

  • American Chemical Society (Computers in Chemistry Division)
  • American Institute of Chemical Engineers
  • Materials Research Society