Junren Li

Physical Chemistry, Peking University
Under. 2018.  Grad. 2022.
Research Area: Computer-Aided Synthesis Planning (CASP), Reaction Prediction, Drug Discovery
Email:  lijunren_at_pku.edu.cn

Experiences:

2000.3, born in Shandong, China

2018.9--2022.7, B. Sc. in chemistry, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University

2022.9--present, Ph.D candidate, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University. ( Co-directed by Prof. Luhua Lai and Prof. Zhirong Liu)

Publications:

1. Kangjie Lin, Junren Li, Haoyu Lin, Jianfeng Pei*, Luhua Lai*. Reaxtica: A knowledge-guided machine learning platform for fast and accurate reaction selectivity and yield prediction, https://doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv-2022-lb8b8

2. Junren Li, Kangjie Lin*, Jianfeng Pei*, and Luhua Lai*. Challenging complexity with simplicity: Rethinking the role of single-step models in computer-aided synthesis planning.  J. Chem. Inf. Model. 64 (14), 5470-5479 (2024). https://pubs.acs.org/toc/jcisd8/64/14

3. Junren Li, Lei Fang*, Jian-Guang Lou. Retro-BLEU: quantifying chemical plausibility of retrosynthesis routes through reaction template sequence analysis. Digital Discovery 3, 482-490 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1039/D3DD00219

4. Lei Fang*, Junren Li, Ming Zhao, Li Tan, Jian-Guang Lou. Single-step retrosynthesis prediction by leveraging commonly preserved substructures. Nat. Commun. 14, 2446 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-37969-w

5. Junren Li, Lei Fang*, Jian-Guang Lou. RetroRanker: leveraging reaction changes to improve retrosynthesis prediction through re-ranking. J. Cheminform. 15, 58 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13321-023-00727-7

Meetings:

1. National Doctoral Student Academic Forum on Intelligent Chemistry and Green Synthesis, Oral, November 2022, Online.

2. The 33^rd CCS Congress, Poster, June 2023, Qingdao, Shandong.

3. 2023 RSC-Wuhan University Emerging Investigator Forum: Artificial Intelligence Energized Synthetic Chemistry, November 2023, Wuhan, Hubei.

Awards:

1. Freshman Scholarship for Molecular Science, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering (2022)

2. Award for Scientific Research, Peking University (2023)

3. Xianfeng Award of Physical Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering (2023).

Hobbies:

Spirits tasting, Hiking, Martial arts novels (Wuxia).