Postdoctoral Researcher · SIMIT, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Qi Huang黄琪

I build AI for materials science.

I'm a postdoctoral researcher at the Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology (SIMIT), Chinese Academy of Sciences, working at the intersection of deep learning, physics-informed modeling, and semiconductor materials.

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About

Qi Huang

Working with Prof. Wenjie Yu under the Shanghai Super Postdoc Program, on AI-driven materials research.

I am a postdoctoral researcher at SIMIT, CAS. I received my Ph.D. in Microelectronics and Solid-State Electronics from SIMIT, CAS in 2025.

Prior to that, I earned an M.Sc. in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence from the University of Manchester (2021) and a B.Sc. from the University of Nottingham Ningbo China (2020).

From July 2024 to March 2025, I was a visiting researcher at the RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project (AIP), Japan, collaborating with Dr. Qibin Zhao.

Technologies I work with
Deep LearningPhysics-Informed MLGraph Neural NetworksMolecular DynamicsPythonPyTorchKnowledge GraphsLLM AgentsCheminformaticsMultimodal Learning
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Research

01 // Materials Representation

How can materials be understood by machines?

Materials carry intrinsic properties across modalities and scales that pure data-driven approaches struggle to capture. My work integrates physical mechanisms into representation learning — fusing molecular sequences, graph structures, 3D conformations, and domain knowledge into unified multimodal representations. Physical priors are embedded in downstream tasks such as neural network force fields, pursuing representations that are both interpretable and generalizable.

SMILES sequenceCC(=O)OC1=CC=CC=C1C(=O)O
Molecular graphatoms · bonds · topology
3D conformationgeometry · coordinates
Domain knowledgetext · literature · rules
Unified multimodal representationone representation per material
Physical priorsmechanisms built into the model
Property predictionpolymer benchmark tasks
Neural network force fieldsenergies · forces

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02 // Intelligent R&D Pipelines

How can materials R&D be intelligently driven?

Materials development involves a long decision chain spanning literature retrieval, data integration, multi-scale simulation, and process optimization. My work places intelligent agents at the center, orchestrating knowledge graphs, cross-scale simulation tools, predictive models, and process optimizers into an automated pipeline — with integrated circuit materials as the primary application domain.

Knowledge graphsstructured domain knowledge
Cross-scale simulationacross length scales
Predictive modelslearned property predictors
Process optimizerssearch for better recipes
Intelligent agentorchestrates the automated pipeline
01Literature retrieval
02Data integration
03Multi-scale simulation
04Process optimization
IC materialsprimary application

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Experience & Education

  1. 2025 — Now

    Postdoctoral Researcher

    Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, CAS · Shanghai, China

    Working with Prof. Wenjie Yu on AI-driven materials research. Awarded the Shanghai Super Postdoc Program.

    AI for ScienceIC MaterialsIntelligent Agents
  2. Jul 2024 — Mar 2025

    Visiting Researcher

    RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project (AIP) · Japan

    Collaborated with Dr. Qibin Zhao on multimodal representation learning for polymer property prediction.

    Multimodal LearningLarge Language Model
  3. 2021 — 2025

    Ph.D. — Microelectronics & Solid-State Electronics

    Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, CAS

    Doctoral research on physics-informed ML for materials science. Developed neural network force fields, coarse-grained simulation methods, and multimodal polymer representations.

    Deep PotentialMaterial RepresentationPolymer ML
  4. 2020 — 2021

    M.Sc. — Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence

    University of Manchester · Manchester, UK

    Machine LearningNLP
  5. 2016 — 2020

    B.Sc. — Computer Science

    University of Nottingham Ningbo China · Ningbo, China

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Publications

Hierarchical deep potential coarse-grained modeling
Journal article2025

Hierarchical deep potential with structure constraints for efficient coarse-grained modeling

Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, vol. 65, no. 7, pp. 3203–3214, 2025

A coarse-grained molecular dynamics method integrating Boltzmann inversion structural priors with hierarchical neural network potentials, achieving high structural fidelity while improving computational efficiency by an order of magnitude.

Order-of-magnitude efficiency gain, high structural fidelityDOI ↗
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05What's next?

Get in touch.

I'm always open to discussing research collaborations, academic opportunities, or AI for Science projects. Feel free to reach out — I'll do my best to respond promptly.