-Dr. Lillian Chong, Professor of Chemistry at the University of Pittsburgh, leads the [Chong Lab](https://chonglab-pitt.github.io), where her team develops cutting-edge tools at the interface of chemistry, physics, and biology to investicate biomolecular dynamics and function. Her research group pioneered using weighted ensemble (WE) simulation techniques to study rare events, such as laarg-scale conformational changes and protein-protein binding, and for creating implicitly polarized AMBER force fields. Her work garned the [2020 Gordon Bell Special Prize](https://chonglab-pitt.github.io/gordon_bell_prize/) for high-performance computing in COVID-19 research leveraging analyses that would otherwise take years but were achieved in weeks using WE and [WESTPA](https://westpa.github.io/westpa/), an open-source software for weighted ensemble path sampling.
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