Chenghao Liu
I am a student of chemistry and computer science. I am a postdoctoral fellow at Caltech supervised by Prof. Frances Arnold (2025-present). I completed by my Ph.D. at McGill University (2019-2024) supervised by Prof. Dmytro (Dima) Perepichka, and I concurrently studied at Mila with Prof. Yoshua Bengio. I was a co-founder of the protein design startup Dreamfold (2021-2025). I was a Vanier scholar (2021-2024). I obtained my BSc (Hons) from McGill University (2016-2019) working with Prof. Perepichka, and earlier with Prof. Reinhard Hesse in geology. I have also been supervised by Dr. Jean-Michel Sellier at Mila. Before undergraduate studies, I spent my younger years in Germany, the Netherlands, and China.


My research is focused on understanding how uncharted physical properties emerge from molecular and supramolecular structures, and their design from the infinite chemical space. Feel free to reach out to me at chl@caltech.edu. My Google Scholar is here.

I am an organizer of the workshop series of integrating Generative and Experimental platforms for bioMolecular design (GEM) at ICLR. GEM at ICLR’25 was held in Singapore, and GEM at ICLR’24 was held in Vienna. Stay tuned for our next workshop.

Publications

2025

SynCoGen

Iso-Tang-COF

STGG+AL

Zero_Shot_enzyme

Bilayer_COF

2024

DDPP

BifurcatedGFN

RGFN

FoldFlow2

LambdaZero

SodiumBattery

DEM

2023

FoldFlow

DGFS

Conformation GFlowNet

Thompson sampling GFN

Multifidelity GFN

Thiele's fluorocarbon

COVID de novo

GFlowNet Review

Nitrofluorene

Silver MOF

2022

COF Phosphorescence

HOF Band Structure

2D PTM Polymer

RetroGNN JCIM

GFlowNet Evaluation

Heterostructure

2021

Glaser Coupling

MOF homojunction

2020

RetroGNN

radical luminescence

2D to 3D COF

Triangulene COF

Photovoltaics substituent

2019

Hydrogen bond

sp2 COF