Udayan Chaudhury (udayanc[at]iastate.edu)
Udayan was born in Kolkata, India. He earned his MSc degree in Industrial Chemistry with Dr. Eeshwaraiah Begari at Central University of Gujarat, India in 2019. His inquisitiveness towards chemical research pushed him towards working in some organic synthesis lab e.g., in Dr. Ravindar Kontham's lab at CSIR- National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India and Dr. Indrajit Das' lab at CSIR- Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata, India as a project trainee and a project associate respectively. After that he decided to gain some experience in the chemical industry, so in 2021 he joined a Pharma-based CRO, Aragen Life Sciences as a Research Associate in their Research and Development division and worked there for a year. Recently in Fall 2022, he decided to pursue his graduate studies in Li Group at ISU. His hobbies include cooking, painting, and travelling.
Liang-Yu Chen (liangyuc[a]iastate.edu)
Liang-Yu was born in Taipei, Taiwan. He began his university study at National Taiwan Normal University and obtained his B. A. in chemistry in 2016. He then completed his M. S. in computational chemistry at National Cheng Kung University in 2019. After a year of working in the IC industry, he attended ISU in 2020 to pursue his Ph. D. degree.
Shengkai Wei (shengkai[a]iastate.edu)
Shengkai came from Henan, the birthplace of Chinese civilization. He got his Bachelor's degree in Chemistry from Zhengzhou University in 2018. Ignoring many easy choices in China, he chose to go abroad and joined the Li group in ISU in August 2019. He finds it exciting and challenging to pursue a Ph.D. degree here, where the patient lessons and kind help received in the group motivates him to do better. His motto is, science is unknown, limitless, mysterious but touchable, which is why he pursues science, not wealth, reputation, or status. He likes to play the violin when in low spirits, and play games to relieve stress. He is ready to make more friends all the time to enjoy different cultures and ready to absorb more knowledge to go to the next stage towards science.
Tian You (tyou[a]iastate.edu)
Tian You is born and raised in Shandong, China. He received his B.Sc in Chemistry at Jilin University. After that, he went to the US to pursue his Ph.D. in ISU in 2019. In his free time (if he doesn’t have more unfinished reactions), he likes to listen to some music, play a few video games, or spend more time to sleep.