Academic Qualification

Ph.D. in Department of Chemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara

Bachelor in Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang University

Teaching Area

Computational Materials

Computational Chemistry

Quantum Chemistry

Physical Chemistry

Machine Learning Methods for Materials Discovery

Research Area

Electronic Structure Methods

Computational Catalysis

Topological Materials for Catalysis

Machine Learning for Materials Discovery

Professional Services

Junior Editor, AI Agent (OAE Publishing Inc.), since 2025

Working Experience

Jan. 2026 ~ present, Assistant Professor, Macao Institute of Materials Science and Engineering, Faculty of Innovation Engineering, MUST

Jul. 2023 ~ Dec. 2025, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCLA

Jan. 2019 ~ Jun. 2023, Graduate Researcher, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCSB

Academic Publication (selected)

1.          Junting Wang, Xinrui Xie, Guorong Weng, Yi Yuan, Jing Zhang, and Peng Wang, A Low‐Energy‐Gap Thienochrysenocarbazole Dye for Highly Efficient Mesoscopic Titania Solar Cells: Understanding the Excited State and Charge Carrier Dynamics, ChemSusChem, 11(9), 1460-1466, 2018

2.          Jacob Brooks, Guorong Weng, Stephanie Taylor, and Vojtech Vlcek, Stochastic many-body perturbation theory for Moiré states in twisted bilayer phosphorene, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 32(23), 234001, 2020

3.          Guorong Weng, and Vojtech Vlcek, Quasiparticles and band structures in organized nanostructures of donor–acceptor copolymers, Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 11(17), 7177-7183, 2020

4.          Carlos Mejuto Zaera, Guorong Weng, Mariya Romanova, Stephen J Cotton, Birgitta K Whaley, Norm Tubman, and Vojtech Vlcek, Are multi-quasiparticle interactions important in molecular ionization?, Journal of Chemical Physics, 154(12),  121101, 2021

5.          Guorong Weng, and Vojtech Vlcek, Efficient treatment of molecular excitations in the liquid phase environment via stochastic many-body theory, Journal of Chemical Physics, 155(5), 054104, 2021

6.          Guorong Weng, Mariya Romanova, Arsineh Apelian, Hanbin Song, and Vojtech Vlcek, Reduced scaling of optimal regional orbital localization via sequential exhaustion of the single-particle space, Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 18(8), 4960-4972, 2022

7.          Guorong Weng, Amanda Pang and Vojtech Vlcek, Spatial decay and limits of quantum solute–solvent interactions, Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 14(10), 2473-2480

8.          Guorong Weng, Rushil Mallarapu, and Vojtech Vlcek, Embedding vertex corrections in GW self-energy: Theory, implementation, and outlook, Journal of Chemical Physics, 158(14), 144105, 2023

9.          Mariya Romanova, Guorong Weng, Arsineh Apelian and Vojtech Vlcek, Dynamical downfolding for localized quantum states, npj Computational Materials, 9(1), 126, 2023

10.      Guorong Weng, William Laderer, and Anastassia N Alexandrova, Understanding the Adiabatic Evolution of Surface States in Tetradymite Topological Insulators under Electrochemical Conditions, Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 15(10), 2732-2739, 2024

11.      Guorong Weng, and Anastassia N Alexandrova, Understanding the Finite Size and Surface Relaxation Effects on the Surface States of Bi2Se3 Family Topological Insulators, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 128(48), 20659-20669, 2024

12.      Guorong Weng, and Anastassia N Alexandrova, Unraveling the Surface Termination and Evolution of Surface States for Electrocatalyst PtSn4 in Alkaline HER, ACS Catalysis, 15, 10448-10458, 2025

13.      Guorong Weng, and Anastassia N Alexandrova, Bulk‐Boundary Correspondence of Semimetal Ru3Sn7 and Topological Surface States on Chemically Realistic Terminations, Advanced Materials Interfaces, 12, e00711, 2025

Research Grants

MIMSE New Faculty Startup Package

Patents

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Professional Certification and Awards

N/A

Student Awards

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Professional Society Membership

Member, American Chemical Society