
Qionghua Zhou, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Supervisor of doctoral and master students.
Address: Room 321 North Tian Jiabing Building, School of Physics, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China
Email: qh.zhou[AT]seu.edu.cn
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7860-1514
Research areas/focuses:
1. Development of machine learning-based material design methods for small datasets.
2. Inverse design of novel materials based on generative models.
3. Explainable machine learning for material discovery.
Grants:
NSFC General Program, 2024-2027, lead.
NSFC Young Scientists Fund - C, 2021-2023, lead.
NSF of Jiangsu - Young Scientists Fund, 2018-2021, lead.
Selected Publications:
(1) Xinyu Chen, Zhilong Song, Shuaihua Lu, Qian Chen, Yuanqiu Mo, Qionghua Zhou*, Jinlan Wang*, Continuous Discovery of Novel 2D Materials via Dual Active Learning-Driven Generative Models, Natl. Sci. Rev. 2026, nwag101.
(2) Zhilong Song, Shuaihua Lu, Minggang Ju, Qionghua Zhou*, Jinlan Wang*, Accurate Prediction of Synthesizability and Precursors of 3D Crystal Structures via Large Language Models, Nat. Commun. 2025, 16, 6530.
(3) Zhilong Song, Linfeng Fan, Shuaihua Lu, Chongyi Ling, Qionghua Zhou*, Jinlan Wang*, Inverse Design of Promising Electrocatalysts for CO2 Reduction via Generative Models and Bird Swarm Algorithm, Nat. Commun. 2025, 16, 1053.
(4) Xinyu Chen, Shuaihua Lu, Qian Chen, Qionghua Zhou*, Jinlan Wang*, From Bulk Effective Mass to 2D Carrier Mobility Accurate Prediction via Adversarial Transfer Learning, Nat. Commun. 2024, 15, 5391.
(5) Shuaihua Lu#, Qionghua Zhou#, Yilv Guo, Jinlan Wang*, On-the-fly Interpretable Machine Learning for Rapid Discovery of Two-Dimensional Ferromagnets with High Curie Temperature. Chem 2022, 8, 769-783.
(6) Shuaihua Lu#, Qionghua Zhou#, Yilv Guo, Yehui Zhang, Yilei Wu, Jinlan Wang*, Coupling a Crystal Graph Multilayer Descriptor to Active Learning for Rapid Discovery of 2D Ferromagnetic Semiconductors/Half-Metals/Metals. Adv. Mater. 2020, 32, 2002658.
(7) Shuaihua Lu#, Qionghua Zhou#, Yixin Ouyang, Yilv Guo, Qiang Li, Jinlan Wang*, Accelerated discovery of stable lead-free hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites via machine learning. Nat. Commun. 2018, 9, 3405.
(8) Qionghua Zhou, Qian Chen*, Yilong Tong, Jinlan Wang*, Light-Induced Ambient Degradation of Few-Layer Black Phosphorus: Mechanism and Protection. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2016, 55, 11437-11441.

