LEONG Research Group


We are a multidisciplinary research team at Nanyang Technological University's School of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology (NTU, CCEB) in Singapore. We work at the interface of chemistry, computer science, data science, artificial intelligence, and automation to develop intelligent, adaptive tools and systems that enable autonomous reaction discovery and informatics.

Our Research

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We are recruiting graduate students for the Aug 2026 and Jan 2027 intake. We also welcome applications from undergraduate researchers and postdocs to start as early as spring 2026! Learn more here!

Latest Publications

Pan Chen, Shaohong Chen, Mark Wang, Shi Xuan Leong, Priscilla Fung, Varinia Bernales, Alan Aspuru-Guzik. Schema for In-Context Learning. arXiv (2025).

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Madeleine Gaidimas, Abhijoy Mandal, Pan Chen, Shi Xuan Leong, Gyu-Hee Kim, Akshay Talekar, Kent Kirlikovali, Kourosh Darvish, Omar Farha, Varinia Bernales, Alan Aspuru-Guzik. Computer Vision for High-Throughput Materials Synthesis: A Tutorial for Experimentalists. ChemRxiv (2025).

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Sterling Baird et al. Bayesian Optimization Hackathon for Chemistry and Materials. ChemRxiv (2025).

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Stefan P. Schmid, Ella Miray Rajaonson, Cher Tian Ser, Mohammad Haddadnia, Shi Xuan Leong, AlΓ‘n Aspuru-Guzik, Agustinus Kristiadi, Kjell Jorner, Felix Strieth-Kalthoff. One Set to Rule Them All: How to Obtain General Chemical Conditions via Bayesian Optimization over Curried Functions. arXiv (2025).

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