VITAE ------Yiyan Bai
Address: 1300 Holman, SJ203, Houston TX, 77004 Phone: 713-718-6053 Fax: 713-718-6211 Email: [email protected]
Occupation: Professor of Chemistry, Physics and Engineering Houston Community College System (HCCS) Division Chair of Biology & Physical Science Central College, HCCS
Education: Ph.D. Chemistry ( in Chemical Physics ) 1984 University of Southern California M.S. Physics 1981 California State University, Los Angels B.S. Electrical Engineering 1976 Harbin Institute of Technology
Experience: 1982-1983 Research Fellow, FOM Institute Amsterdam, Netherlands 1981 –1982 & 1982 –1984 Research Assistant, University of Southern California
During both the above period, research in the field of “Fundamentals and Mechanisms of Quantum Localization in Non-linear Hamiltonian System”
1984 – 1987 Senior Research Fellow and Department Director National Research Center, Beijing China
1987 – 1990 Research Associate, University of Southern California In the field of “ Photon Excitation & Molecular Dynamics”
1990 – 1992 Research Physicist, Shell Oil Company 1992 – Present Professor of Chemistry, Physics and Engineering Central College, HCCS Online Tutor of Physics & Chemistry for hccs.askonline.net
2000 – Present Division Chair of Biology & Physical Science Managing an Annual Budget of $900,000, with 45 faculties and 6 staff assistants. Managing Science Tutoring Lab, with 6 tutors in all science disciplines.
In 1996—Co-Applicant of NSF Science and Technology Grant and won the award of $25,000 and set up a Computer Assisted Chemistry Lab.
2008 – Present: Project Director and Co-Manager of CCRAA Grant of DOE for $2.4 million between UST and HCC
1995 – 1996 Served as the Advisor for Hispanic Student Engineers Club of HCCS Central
In 2000, received Leadership training.
In 2004, receive the FAC Outstanding Teaching Award from HCCS
In 2010, received Tony Chee’s Excellent Teaching Award of HCCS, Central
2001 – Present Has been Serving as the POC ( point of contact ) in HCCS. Coordinate, select and support HCC students to participate into the NASA Texas Aerospace Scholar program, which is one of the NASA’s educational programs for community college.
Publication:
1. Mode Specificity of Unimolecular Rate Constant in the Henon-
Helies System, Chemical Physics Letter, 99, 342, 1983.
2. Fundamentals and Mechanisms of Quantum Localization in Multi-
Dimensional Correlated Systems, Journal of Chemical Physics
88a, 4363, 1984.
3. A Born-Oppenheimer Adiabatic Mechanism for Regularity of
States in the Quantum Stadium Billiard, Physical Review A, 31, 2821, 1985.
4. Quantum Regularity in the Non-Linear System, 6th Annual West
Coast Theoretical Chemistry Conference, abs. 45, 1984.
5. A New Approach to studying Quasiperiodicity and the Onset of
Chaos in Non-Linear System, XII Symposium on Physics of
Ionized Gases, Yugoslavia, Sept. 1984.
6. Fundamental and Mechanisms of Quantum Localization in Non
-Linear Hamiltonian System (Ph.D Thesis, USC) 1984.
7. Order and Disorder in Non-Linear and Chaotic System, Chinese
Science of Science, Jan. 1986.
8. Calculated Potential Energy Surface for the Electronic States
of NCNO that Dissociate to the Products CN + NO, Chemical
Physics Letter, 151, 1&2, 1988.
9. The Electronic Spectrum of NOCl: Photofragment Spectroscopy,
Vector Correlation and ab Initio Calculation, Journal of
Chemical Physics, 90 (8), 15, Apr. 1989.
10. Features of the Electronic Potential Energy Surface of Nitric
Acid Below 7ev, Journal of Chemical Physics, 94 (12), Aug.,
1989.
11. Ab Initio Calculation of Dissociative Electronic States of
ClCN: Implications to the Photodissociation Dynamics of the
Cyanogen Halide, Journal of Chemical Physics, 94, 331, 1991.
12. The Spectroscopy and the Dynamics of Fast Evolving States, Journal of Physical Chemistry, Aug., 1991.
13. Improvement on "DRAGSET" Airgun Simulation by Modification of
Empirical Parameters, BRS-E, 91.03, Shell Publication.
14. Acquisition Geometry and Linear Noise Suppression, BRS-E,
92.03, Shell Publication.
15. Linear Noise Suppression and 3-D DMO, BRS-E, 92.03, Shell
Publication.
16. Remote Sensing of Seismic Vibration, TIR, BRC, 2856, 92.06,
Shell Publication.