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ChristopherAMyers/README.md

Hi there! 👋

I am a Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of California, Merced in theoretical chemistry. My research focuses on molecular dynamics, including classical, mixed QM/MM, and nonadiabatic simulations with applications to polaritons, UV-Vis spectroscopy, and machine learning. My work is also tailored towards scientific software development for high performance computing environments, interfacing quantum chemistry programs with molecular mechanics packages and optimizing spectroscopy calculations.

I also have a background in force field development for MD simulations of nucleic acids and other large biomolecules, as well as experience working with a variety of experimental groups in mass spectrometry, polymer chemistry, and various flavors of spectroscopy. I also have a background in computer science, software development, and teaching.

My Full CV can be found here!

Favorite Coding Projects

Some of the various projects that I have built or actively contribute to may help you with your research goals:

  • PySCES A nonadiabatic, semiclassics simulation program that interfaces with TeraChem and GAMESS electronic structure programs. Article PDF | Publisher
  • MolSpecPy A Python package for simulating various optical spectroscopies from quantum chemistry data. My recent publication that utilizes various improvements to the code can be found here.
  • Python tutorial demonstrating how one can improve computational effeciency for high performance computing environments with Numpy, just-in-time compilation, and multiprocessing.
  • AmberFD library for extending OpenMM with a fluctuating density model (pre-print ChemRxiv). Also check out it's documentation!
  • CoSIMS: A Collision Simulator for Ion Mobility Spectrometry. Published in J. Phys. Chem. B 2019.
  • A Python based QM/MM interface that links OpenMM and Q-Chem
  • An OpenMM program that computes interaction energies between analytes

Additional Projects Include...

  • Machine learning for excited states and nonadiabatic molecular dynamics
  • Polariton and optical cavity models

If you are an employeer and would like to know more about my proprietary research repositories, please reach using any of my contact methods listed above. Due to potential conflicts of interest and active NDAs, only academic projects can be discussed.

Skills and Technical Abilities

Computer Languages and Systems

  • Advanced fluency in C++ and Python.
  • Intermediate fluency in C, C#, Java, Matlab, Bash, Mathematica, LaTeX.
  • Experienced with the procedures for designing, optimizing, and documenting new software.
  • Unix operating systems, Git and GitHub versioning software.
  • OpenMP parallelization
  • Machine Learning: PyTorch, Scikit-Learn, SciPy, NumPy, and Pandas; familiarity in Kera's and TensorFlow.
  • An obsession for squeezing out every little bit of performance as possible from a program.

Algorithms

Experience with numerical optimization techniques, numerical integration, and linear algebra. Strong background in density functional theory and molecular mechanics algorithms. Machine Learning: Experience with deep neural networks, nonlinear and kernel ridge regression, and clusting algorithms. Familarity with convolutional neural networks and general parameterization techniques.

Contact Information

I love to meet new people and hear about their work! Feel free to reach out to me at either my email

Selected Publications

If you're interested in my research, you might find your own inspiration from some of my publications, many of which have a repository assocated with them. A complete list of my publications can be found on my Google Scholar.

  1. Christopher A. Myers, Ken Miyazaki, Thomas Trepl, Christine M. Isborn, and Nandini Ananth. “GPU-Accelerated On-the-fly Nonadiabatic Semiclassical Dynamics”. In Review, 2024. Article PDF | J. Phys. Chem. B

  2. Christopher A. Myers, Shao-Yu Lu ,Sapana Shedge, Arthur Pyuskulyan, Katherine Donahoe, Liang Shi, Christine M. Isborn. “Axial H-bonding Solvent Controls Inhomogeneous Spectral Broadening, Peripheral H-bonding Solvent Controls Vibronic Broadening: Cresyl Violet in Methanol.” J. Phys. Chem. B 2024.

    • This project used MolSpecPy to generate UV-Vis spectra!
  3. Christopher A. Myers, Alan A. Chen. "A Fluctuating Density Energy Model for RNA Nucleobase Interactions." ChemRxiv

    • Implimentation can be found at the AmberFD repo.
  4. Mengwen Yan, Christopher A. Myers, Gregory M. John, Vincent E. Meyers, Alan A. Chen, Jeremy I. Feldblyum. "Probing the Edges between Stability and Degradation of a Series of ZnSe-Based Layered Hybrid Semiconductors." Adv. Mater. Interfaces 2022.

  5. Rebecca J. D'Esposito, Christopher A. Myers, Alan A. Chen, and Sweta Vangaveti. "Challenges with simulating modified RNA: Insights into role and reciprocity of experimental and computational approaches." Genes 2022.

  6. Christopher A. Myers, Rebecca J. D’Esposito, Daniele Fabris, Srivathsan V. Ranganathan, Alan A. Chen. CoSIMS: A Collision Simulator for Ion Mobility Spectrometry. J. Phys. Chem. B 2019.

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