CV

Education, experience, awards, and patents.

Contact Information

Name Hao Xu
Professional Title Investigator, Brigham and Women's Hospital; Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Email haoxu0303@gmail.com
Location Boston, MA

Professional Summary

Research in AI for Science focuses on leveraging micro-scale physical and chemical mechanisms to build interpretable AI models for molecular and biological discovery, bridging micro-scale determinants and macro-level outcomes across drug discovery, medicine, and chemistry.

Experience

  • 2026 - present

    Boston, MA

    Investigator & Instructor
    Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
  • 2024 - 2026

    Boston, MA

    Research Fellow
    Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
  • 2024 - 2026

    Boston, MA

    Affiliated Research Fellow
    Department of Physics, Network Science Institute, Northeastern University
  • 2023 - 2024

    Waltham, MA

    Postdoctoral Associate
    Department of Computer Science, Brandeis University
  • 2023 - 2024
    Affiliated Postdoctoral Associate
    GlycoMIP (NSF-funded Materials Innovation Platform, Virginia Tech & University of Georgia)

Education

  • 2017 - 2022

    Boston, MA

    Ph.D. in Chemistry
    Boston College
  • 2020 - 2022

    Atlanta, GA

    M.S. in Computer Science
    Georgia Institute of Technology
  • 2015 - 2017

    Dallas, TX

    M.S. in Computational Chemistry
    Southern Methodist University
  • 2011 - 2015

    Beijing, China

    B.S. in Chemistry & B.Econ. in Finance
    China Agricultural University

Patents

  • Machine Learning Framework for Prediction and Assignment of 2D NMR Spectra. Pengyu Hong, Yunrui Li, Hao Xu. US Patent App. 63/708,341.
  • Cobalt(II)-Based Catalytic System for Asymmetric Intramolecular Aziridination. X. Peter Zhang, Hao Xu. US Patent App. 63/589,044.