Kin Yiu Wong
Assistant Professor
Department of Physics
Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU)
China
Biography
Kin Yiu Wong has done his B.Sc. (1st Hons.) in Physics in Chinese University of Hong Kong, M.S. in Physics in Ohio State University, Columbus OH, USA, Ph.D. in Chemical Physics University of Minnesota, Twin Cities MN, USA, Post-doc in (1) Chemistry Department at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities MN, USA, and (2) in BioMaPS Institute for Quantitative Biology at the Rutgers University, New Brunswick NJ, USA
Research Interest
My research interests include (1) based on fundamental laws in classical physics, physical chemistry, quantum and statistical mechanics, simulating biochemical events involving DNA, RNA, and protein molecules with computers, and (2) their applications and implications in the origin of life, biocatalysis, biotechnology, rational drug design, etc.
Publications
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Wong, K.-Y.; York, D. M., “Exact Relation between Potential of Mean Force and Free-Energy Profileâ€, Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 2012, 8, (11), 3998-4003.
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Wong, K.-Y., “Review of Feynman’s Path Integral in Quantum Statistics: from the Molecular Schrödinger Equation to Kleinert’s Variational Perturbation Theoryâ€. Communications in Computational Physics 2014,15, (4), 853-894.
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Wong, K.-Y.; Xu, Y.; Xu, L., “Review of Computer Simulations of Isotope Effects on Biochemical Reactions: from the Bigeleisen Equation to Feynman’s Path Integralâ€, Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Proteins and Proteomics 2015, 1854, (11), 1782-1794.
