{"id":578,"date":"2025-06-23T02:25:35","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T02:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/chong-sun\/?page_id=578"},"modified":"2026-05-21T20:31:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T20:31:42","slug":"about-chong","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/sun-lab\/about-chong\/","title":{"rendered":"Chong Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-568 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/chong-sun\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1433\/2025\/06\/headshot_chong-1-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"242\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/sun-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1433\/2025\/06\/headshot_chong-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/sun-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1433\/2025\/06\/headshot_chong-1-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/sun-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1433\/2025\/06\/headshot_chong-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/sun-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1433\/2025\/06\/headshot_chong-1-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/sun-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1433\/2025\/06\/headshot_chong-1-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/sun-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1433\/2025\/06\/headshot_chong-1-2048x2048.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 242px) 100vw, 242px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Contact<\/strong><br \/>\n\ud83d\udccd CCB 4302<br \/>\n\u260e\ufe0f (848) 445-8388<br \/>\n\ud83d\udce7 chong[dot]sun[at]rutgers[dot]edu<\/p>\n<p><strong>Education<\/strong><br \/>\nPh.D. California Institute of Technology (2021)<br \/>\nB.A. Peking University (2015)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Selected Honors &amp; Awards<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Scialog Fellow, Quantum Matter &amp; Information, 2026<\/li>\n<li>Chair&#8217;s Poster Award, American Conference on Theoretical Chemistry, 2024<\/li>\n<li>Barbara J. Burger Fellowship, 2019<\/li>\n<li>CCE Teaching Award, California Institute of Technology, 2018<\/li>\n<li>Centennial Fellowship in the Natural Science and Engineering, 2015<\/li>\n<li>Chun-Tsung Scholarship, 2014<\/li>\n<li>Merit Student, Peking University, 2014<\/li>\n<li>Pan Gu Fellowship, 2013<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Talks<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cToward Intelligent Materials Design through Quantum Embedding and Generative AI.\u201d Seminar at MSE, Rutgers University, 2025.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cGenerative Models and Their Applications in Chemistry.\u201d Chemistry Colloquium, Rutgers University, 2025.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cConnecting Strong and Weak Correlations with Nonorthogonal Configuration Interaction.\u201d Contributed Talk at ACS March Meeting, 2025.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cWaveflow: A Generative Neural Network for Learning Electronic Wavefunctions.\u201d Contributed Talk at ACS March Meeting, 2025.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cDesigning Quantum Chemistry Methods with and Beyond Chemical Intuition.\u201d Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, Feb. 2025.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cDesigning Quantum Chemistry Methods with and Beyond Chemical Intuition.\u201d Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, Jan. 2025.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cDesigning Quantum Chemistry Methods with and Beyond Chemical Intuition.\u201d SUNY Binghamton, Binghamton, NY, Dec. 2024.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cDesigning Quantum Chemistry Methods with and Beyond Chemical Intuition.\u201d University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, Dec. 2024.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cDesigning Quantum Chemistry Methods with and Beyond Chemical Intuition.\u201d University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, Nov. 2024.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cDesigning Computational Methods for Strongly Correlated Electrons.\u201d Rice Quantum Initiative Seminar, Houston, TX, Nov. 2024.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cHow to Design Quantum Chemistry Methods.\u201d Texas A&amp;M University, College Station, TX, Oct. 2024.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cNeural Networks as a Quantum Chemistry Ansatz: A Chemist\u2019s View.\u201d University of Washington, Seattle, WA, Aug. 2024.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cStudy of Many-Body Localization with Complex Polarization.\u201d APS March Meeting, Mar. 2024.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cA Chemist\u2019s View of Quantum Computing.\u201d Tulane University, Online, Nov. 2023.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cNumerical Solutions to Large Eigenvalue Problems in Chemistry.\u201d Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, Mar. 2023.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cStudy of Strongly Correlated Materials with Density Matrix Embedding Theory.\u201d 15th International Conference on Theoretical and High-Performance Computational Chemistry, Online, Jul. 2022.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cDesigning Classical and Quantum Algorithms for Strongly Correlated Materials.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/quantumai.google\/?utm_source=chatgpt.com\">Google Quantum<\/a>, Online, Nov. 2021.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cDensity Matrix Embedding Theory and Quantum Imaginary Time Evolution.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bytedance.com\/?utm_source=chatgpt.com\">ByteDance<\/a>, Online, Aug. 2021.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cSolving Chemistry Problems with Quantum Computers.\u201d California Institute of Technology CCE Seminar Day, Pasadena, CA, Nov. 2020.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cQuantum Algorithms for Quantum Chemistry Simulations.\u201d Peking University, Beijing, China, Jan. 2020.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cQuantum Imaginary Time Evolution.\u201d Quantum Information Processing, Jan. 2020.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cFinite-Temperature Density Matrix Embedding Theory.\u201d Simons Many-Electron Collaboration Summer School, Jun. 2019.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cFinite-Temperature Density Matrix Embedding Theory.\u201d APS March Meeting, Mar. 2017.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contact \ud83d\udccd CCB 4302 \u260e\ufe0f (848) 445-8388 \ud83d\udce7 chong[dot]sun[at]rutgers[dot]edu Education Ph.D. California Institute of Technology (2021) B.A. Peking University (2015) &nbsp; &nbsp; Selected Honors &amp; Awards Scialog Fellow, Quantum Matter &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/sun-lab\/about-chong\/\" class=\"\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4123,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-578","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.5 - 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