Current Position:

• Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, College of Art and Science
• Adjunct Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Health Sciences Center
• Associate Director, Center for Computational Chemistry (C³)
• UNM Comprehensive Cancer Center (UNMCCC) full member

Degrees:

• Ph.D. in Biophysics, 2009, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
• Postdoctoral Associate in Chemistry, 2009-2012, Cornell University (PI: Prof. Harold A. Scheraga)
• Research Associate  in Chemistry, 2012-2017, Cornell University (PI: Prof. Harold A. Scheraga)
• Research Scientist in Bioengineering, 2017-2018, University of California Merced (PI. Prof. Victor Muñoz)

Honors and Grants(after joining UNM):

• 2024 Cancer Center Collaboration Award Between Sanford Burnham Prebys Cancer Center & UNMCCC
• SUPN, 2024-2027
• NSF CAREER Award, 2023-2028
• SUPN Collaboration-Building Seed Funding, 2023-2024
• INBRE RAIN Award, 2023-2024
• NSF PREC Track 1, 2022-2025 (PI: Mark Walker - Experiments; Co-PI: Yi He - Computations)
• The Autophagy, Inflammation, and Metabolism Center Core Capability Enhancement Award, 2022
• NSF LEAPS Award, 2021-2023
• The 2021 Summer Research for Faculty (SuRF) Award, 2021 & 2022 (Twice)
• Research Allocations Committee (RAC) Award, 2020-2022
• The Substance Use Disorders Grand Challenge Pilot Research Award, 2019-2023 (renewed twice)

Email: yihe (at) unm.edu