Curriculum Vitae	Yingbin Ge, Ph. D. Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Science Building 207A Chemistry Department Central Washington University 400 East University Way Ellensburg WA 98926	Office Phone: 509-963-2817 Lab (Science 214) Phone: 509-963-2537 Fax: 509-963-1050 Email: yingbin_at_cwu_dot_edu Homepage: http://www.cwu.edu/~yingbin/

Education

• 2004 - Ph. D. Physical Chemistry, University of Hawaii; Advisor: Professor John D. Head
• 2005 - M. S. Information and Computer Sciences, University of Hawaii
• 1995 - B. S. Polymer Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China

Professional Experience

• Sept. 2008 - Present, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Central Washington University
• Jul. 2005 - Jul. 2008, Postdoc Research Associate, Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University; Advisor: Professor Mark S. Gordon
• Jan. 2005 - Jun. 2005, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Hawaii

Professional Affiliations and Services

• 2010 - present: Reviewer for the Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (Royal Society of Chemistry)
• 2009 - present: Reviewer for the Journal of Physical Chemistry (American Chemical Society)
• 2007 - present: Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society
• 2005 - present: American Chemical Society

Awards

• Rechnitz Dissertation Prize from the University of Hawaii (2005)
• Teaching Assistant Award from the University of Hawaii (2003)
• Teaching Assistant Award from the University of Hawaii (2001)

Grant Proposals

• Mar. 2010 - Using Computational Chemistry Software in Chemistry Teaching, Technology Fee, Central Washington University, $5,000, pending.
• Feb. 2010 - Using Computational Chemistry Software in Chemistry Teaching and Research, Len Thayer Small Grants Program, Central Washington University, $5,000, pending.
• Jan. 2010 - Structures and Optical Properties of Light-Emitting Passivated Silicon Nanoparticles, Faculty Research Appointment, Central Washington University, $4,000, not funded.
• Oct. 2009 - Theoretical Study of the Alumina Supported Platinum Cluster Catalyzed Dehydrogenation of Propane, American Chemical Society, Petroleum Research Fund-Undergraduate New Investigator, $50,000, pending.
• May 2009 - Fast Global Optimization of Passivated Silicon Nanoclusters Using Genetic Algorithms, Research Corporation, Cottrell College Science Awards-Single Investigator, $37,000, not funded.
• Aug. 2008 - Theoretical Study of the Atomic Layer Deposition of Vanadium Oxide on Various Metal Oxide Surfaces, American Chemical Society, Petroleum Research Fund-Undergraduate New Investigator, $50,000, not funded.
• Sept. 2008 - Startup fund from the Central Washington University, $33,000+$2,000, funded.

Courses Taught at Central Washington University

Quarters (Fall Winter, Spring)	Course	Description
2010S	Chem 505	Current Topics in Chemistry - Computational Chemistry and Its Applications
All quarters	Chem 495	Senior Undergraduate Research
2010W	Chem 488	Undergraduate Chemistry Colloquium II
All quarters	Chem 395	Undergraduate Research
2009F	Chem 388	Undergraduate Chemistry Colloquium I
2009S, 2010S	Chem 383	Physical Chemistry III: Statistical Thermodynamics and Kinetics
2009S, 2010S	Chem 383L	Physical Chemistry Lab II
2009W, 2010W	Chem 382	Physical Chemistry II: Quantum Chemistry
2009W, 2010W	Chem 382L	Physical Chemistry Lab I
2008F, 2009F	Chem 381	Physical Chemistry I: Thermodynamics
All quarters	Chem 295	Undergraduate Research
2008F, 2009F	Chem 181	General Chemistry I
2008F, 2009W, 2009F, 2010W	Chem 181L	General Chemistry Lab I
2005S	Chem 152	Survey of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry at UH
2005S	Chem 152L	Survey of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry Lab at UH

Publications, Peer-Reviewed:

15. Y. Ge and T. C. Shore, Benchmark calculations on the Dehydrogenation of Ethene, manuscript in preparation.

14. Z. Gao, F. Battaglia, R. O. Fox, Y. Ge, and M. S. Gordon, Theoretical Study of the Pyrolysis of Methyltrichlorosilane in the Gas Phase. 4. Reduced Mechanism, manuscript in preparation.

13. Y. Ge, M. S. Gordon, F. Battaglia, and R. O. Fox, Theoretical Study of the Pyrolysis of Methyltrichlorosilane in the Gas Phase. 3. Reaction Rate Constant Calculations, Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 114, 2384-2392, 2010.

12. Y. Ge, M. S. Gordon, P. Piecuch, M. Wloch, and J. R. Gour, Breaking bonds of open-shell species with the restricted open-shell size extensive left eigenstate completely renormalized coupled-cluster method , Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 112, 11873-11884, 2008.

11. Y. Shiraishi, D. Robinson, Y. Ge, J. D. Head, Low Energy Structures of Ligand Passivated Si Nanoclusters: Theoretical Investigation of Si₂L₄ and Si₁₀L₁₆ (L=H, CH₃, OH and F) , Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 112, 1819-1824, 2008.

10. Y. Ge, M. S. Gordon, and P. Piecuch, Breaking Bonds with the Left Eigenstate Completely Renormalized Coupled-Cluster Method , Journal of Chemical Physics, 127, 174106, 2007.

9. Y. Ge, M. S. Gordon, F. Battaglia, and R. O. Fox, Theoretical Study of the Pyrolysis of Methyltrichlorosilane in the Gas Phase. 2. Reaction Paths and Transition States , Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 111, 1475-1486, 2007.

8. Y. Ge, M. S. Gordon, F. Battaglia, and R. O. Fox, Theoretical Study of the Pyrolysis of Methyltrichlorosilane in the Gas Phase. 1. Thermodynamics Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 111, 1462-1474, 2007.

7. Y. Ge, K. Olsen, R. I. Kaiser, and J. D. Head, The Potential Energy Surface of the H₂O₂ System (word file), AIP Conference Proceedings Volume 855, ASTROCHEMISTRY: From Laboratory Studies to Astronomical Observations, 4A, 253-259, 2006.

6. J. D. Head and Y. Ge, Theoretical Identification of the Lowest Energy Si_xL_y Clusters Using Genetic Algorithms , Lecture Series on Computer and Computational Sciences, 4A, 1014-1017, 2005.

5. Y. Ge and J. D. Head, Ligand Effects on Si_xL_y Cluster Structures with L = H and F, Molecular Physics,103, 1035-1045, 2005.

4. Y. Ge and J. D. Head, Fast Global Optimization of Si_xH_y: New mutation operators in the cluster genetic algorithm, Chemical Physics Letters, 398, 107-112, 2004.

3. Y. Ge and J. D. Head, Global Optimization of H-Passivated Si Clusters at the Ab Initio Level via the GAM1 Semiempirical Method, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 108, 6025-6034, 2004.

2. Y. Ge and J. D. Head, Global Optimization of Si_xH_y Clusters at the Ab Initio Level via an Iteratively Parametrized Semiempirical Method, International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, 95, 617-626, 2003.

1. Y. Ge and J. D. Head, Global Optimization of H-Passivated Si Clusters with a Genetic Algorithm, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 106, 6997-7004, 2002.

Publications, Non-Peer-Reviewed:

2. Y. Ge, Ph. D. Dissertation, Global Optimization of Passivated Si Clusters at the Ab Initio Level Via Semiempirical Methods, (two-sided)

1. J. D. Head and Y. Ge, Global Optimization of Si_xH_y and Si_xF_y Clusters at the Ab Initio Level, Maui High Performance Computing Center Application Briefs, page 6-7, 2004.

Talks (The presenter's name is underlined.):

• Y. Ge, M. S. Gordon, P. Piecuch, M. Wloch, and J. R. Gour, Breaking bonds of open-shell species with the left-eigenstate renormalized coupled-cluster method, 235th ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, LA, USA (2008)
• F. Battaglia, Z. Gao, R. O. Fox, Y. Ge and M. S. Gordon, Detailed Reaction Kinetics for CFD Modeling of Nuclear Fuel Pellet Coating for High-Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactors, American Nuclear Society 2007 Winter Meeting, Washington D. C., USA (2007)
• Z. Gao, F. Battaglia, R. O. Fox, Y. Ge, M. Gordon and S. Pope, Implementation of detailed chemistry of methyltrichlorosilane decomposition into ISAT and parametric study, AIChE Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA (2007)
• Y. Ge, Chemistry with Computers, Central Washington Unviersity, Ellensburg, Washington, USA (2007)
• F. Battaglia, R. O. Fox, M. S. Gordon, and Y. Ge, Coupling Molecular and Continuum Modeling for Detailed Reaction Kinetics of TRISO Fuel Coating, SIAM Conference on Computational Science & Engineering, Costa Mesa, California, USA (2007)
• Y. Ge, K. Olsen, R. I. Kaiser, and J. D. Head, The Potential Energy Surface of the H₂O₂ System, International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA (2005)
• J. D. Head and Y. Ge, Theoretical Identification of the Lowest Energy Si_xL_y clusters Using Genetic Algorithms, International Conference of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering, Loutraki, Korinthos, Greece (2005)

Posters (The presenter's name is underlined.):

• Y. Ge, M. S. Gordon, R. O. Fox, and F. Battaglia, Theoretical Study of the Pyrolysis of CH3SiCl3 in the Gas Phase: Rate Constant Calculations, Mark Gordon Conference, Maui, Hawaii, USA (2007)
• J. D. Head and Y. Ge, Theoretical investigation of the low energy structures of SixLy clusters, 232nd ACS National Meeting, San Francisc o, CA, USA (2006)
• Y. Ge, M. S. Gordon, R. O. Fox, and F. Battaglia, Theoretical Study of the Pyrolysis of CH3SiCl3 in the Gas Phase, International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA (2005)
• Y. Ge and J. D. Head, Ligand Effects on SixLy Cluster Structures with L = H and F, International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA (2005)
• Y. Ge and J. D. Head, Ligand Effects on SixLy Cluster Structures with L = H and F, Molecular Quantum Mechanics Conference, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England (2004)
• K. L. Wong, Y. Ge, and J. D. Head, Global Optimization of SixHy Clusters at the Ab Initio Level via an Iteratively Parametrized Semiempirical Method, the 3rd annual Computation Chemistry Grid Conference, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA (2003)
• Y. Ge and J. D. Head, Global Optimization of SixHy Clusters at the Ab Initio Level via an Iteratively Parametrized Semiempirical Method, the 43rd Sanibel Symposium, St. Augustine, Florida, USA (2003)
• Y. Ge and J. D. Head, Theoretical Investigation for Si20 and Its Derivatives, International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA (2000)