I used to be a natural science student. During high school, I had the privilege of visiting Prof. Xiaobo Zhou’s lab at Wake Forest University and Prof. Guigen Li’s lab at Nanjing University, where I participated in research projects in biology and chemistry. I have also participated in the U.S. National Chemistry Olympiad and PhysicsBowl Contest, achieving top 10% and top 30% national round rankings respectively. Upon graduation, I was honored to receive the Scholar Award in Chemistry (best chemistry student of the class, as voted by all chemistry teachers). When I was accepted to the University of Southern California, my major was Physics. Despite later transferring to a Computer Science major, I completed a minor in Astronomy.

Below are the related publications.

  • Efficient Particle Separation in Microfluid Channel with Inhomogeneous Magnetic Field

    Brian Nlong Zhao

    Journal of Electromagnetic Analysis and Applications Volume 11

  • Group-Assisted Purification Chemistry for Asymmetric Mannich-type Reaction of Chiral N-Phosphonyl Imines with Azlactones Leading to Syntheses of α-Quaternary α,β-Diamino Acid Derivatives

    Haowei Zhang, Zhen Yang, Brian Nlong Zhao, Guigen Li

    The Journal of Organic Chemistry, Volume 83, Issue 2

  • Identification of cancer prognosis-associated functional modules using differential co-expression networks

    Wenshuai Yu, Shengjie Zhao, Yongcui Wang, Brian Nlong Zhao, Weiling Zhao, Xiaobo Zhou

    Oncotarget Volume 8

  • Chiral Phosphinyl Enamines and Their Asymmetric Reduction through Group-Assisted Purification Chemistry Leading to Enantiopure β-Amino Esters/Amides

    Shuo Qiao, Jianbin Wu, Junming Mo, Preston T. Spigener, Brian Nlong Zhao, Bo Jiang*, Guigen Li*

    Synlett Volume 28

  • Predicting the impact of combined therapies on myeloma cell growth using a hybrid multi-scale agent-based model

    Zhiwei Ji, Jing Su, Dan Wu, Huiming Peng, Weiling Zhao, Brian Nlong Zhao, Xiaobo Zhou

    Oncotarget Volume 8