Amiel Stephen Paz 1555 Century Ave, Pudong, Shanghai, China, 200122 | [email protected] | +1 (925) 301-3412 | +86 13122904427 Education Stanford University, Stanford, CA 2014 – 2018 • B.S. Chemistry, Bioengineering New York University, New York City, NY 2018 – 2022 (expected) • PhD Computational Chemistry Advisor: William J. Glover Research Interests: Development of electronic structure methods for scalable and stable non-adiabatic ab initio excited-state molecular dynamics for photochemistry in the condensed phase. Experience: Graduate Researcher, Department of Chemistry, New York University Sep. 2018 - Present Advisor: William J. Glover Publications: • A.S.P. Paz, WJG, “Diabatic Many-Body Expansion: Development and Application to Charge-Transfer Reactions”, J. Chem. Theory Comput. 17, 1497 (2021) • WJG, A. S. P. Paz, W. Thongyod, C. Punwong, “Analytical Gradients and Derivative Couplings for Dynamically Weighted Complete Active Space Self-Consistent Field”, J. Chem Phys. 151, 201101 (2019) Undergraduate Researcher, Department of Chemistry, Stanford University Jun. 2017 Advisor: T. Daniel P. Stack • Performed independent research on developing a conformer generation and analysis workflow for ranking conformers of iron(III) yersiniabactin and its diastereomers by single-point energies • Ran ab initio molecular dynamics simulations on TeraChem to generate starting ligand topologies for various coordination complexes • Wrote code to generate and optimize random guess structures of coordination complexes; interfaces with Spartan and Gaussian Honors and Awards 2020 Virtual Conference on Theoretical Chemistry July 2020 • Outstanding Lightning Talk (Graduate Student Division) • Topic: The Diabatic Many-Body Expansion: Development and Application to Charge Transfer Reactions (http://youtube.com/watch?v=c- Jd4witNR4) NYU GSAS Dean’s Travel Grant March 2020 • Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic Other Experience Electronic Structure Theory Summer School Jun. 2017 Instructors: Dr. Todd Martinez and Dr. Robert Parrish Stanford, CA • Studied and wrote code for various methods in EST, including Restricted Hartree-Fock, Configuration-Interaction Singles, CASCI, and CASSCF. Introduced to Coupled Cluster • Practical introduction to CUDA to write parallelizable code for EST Leland Scholars Program Aug. 2014 Stanford, CA • Participated in a transitory program for pre-freshman from under-resourced communities or disadvantaged backgrounds with aspirations in STEM fields • Culminated in group research project and literature synthesis on current applications of nuclear medicine toward tumor detection Stanford Pilipino American Student Union (PASU) Sep. 2014 – Jun. 2015 Stanford, CA • Intern for committee involved in social and cultural empowerment and education, hosting educational workshops for campus residents throughout the year • Helped organize the annual Pilipino Youth Leadership Conference (PYLC) for South Bay Area high school students Skills Languages: English (native), French (proficient) Programming languages: Python, C++, C, Fortran Software: Various electronic structure packages (TeraChem, MOLPRO, Q-Chem, Gaussian) .