Paul Ha-Yeon Cheong
Department of Chemistry
Oregon State University
153 Gilbert Hall
Room 303
Corvallis, OR 97331

T 541-737-6760
paulhcheong(at)gmail.com

Education
2007 - 2009 Postdoctoral Associate, University of California, Los Angeles: Principal Investigator: K. N. Houk
2002 - Nov. 2007 Ph. D. in Organic Chemistry, University of California, Los Angeles: Thesis advisor: K. N. Houk
1997 - 2001 AB, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME: Independent Research Advisor: Faraj Hasanayn

Experience
2009 Assistant Professor: Oregon State University
2007 - 2009 Postdoctoral Associate: University of California, Los Angeles
2002 - 2007 Research Assistant: University of California, Los Angeles
2003 - 2006 Graduate Teaching Assistant Consultant: University of California, Los Angeles
2002 - 2005 Graduate Teaching Assistant: University of California, Los Angeles
2001 - 2002 Assistant Academic Curricula Developer: Bowdoin College
1998 - 2001 Undergraduate Teaching Assistant: Bowdoin College

Awards & Fellowships
2009 MBI Amgen Postdoctoral Award
2007 Thomas L. and Ruth F. Jacobs Award
2006 John Stauffer Fellowship
2006 - 2007 UCLA Graduate Division Dissertation Year Fellowship
2002 - 2007 UCLA Graduate Fellowship
2001 Hypercube scholar award (Hyperchem 6.0)

Conference Oral Presentations
Aug., 2008 Computational Investigations of Ni and Rh Catalyzed CC Bond-Formation, Houk, K. N.; Cheong, P. H.-Y.; Liu, P.; McCarren, P. 236th ACS National Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Sept., 2006 The mechanism and the origins of stereoselectivity in the Rh(I)-Josiphos-catalyzed asymmetric hydrogenation of unprotected enamines: A computational study, Cheong, P. H.-Y.; Zhao, Y.-L.; Houk, K. N.; Rosner, T. 232nd ACS National Meeting, San Francisco, California
Sept., 2006 Mechanism of the Au(I)-catalyzed enyne cycloisomerization reaction, Cheong, P. H.-Y.; Houk, K. N.; Toste, F. D. 232nd ACS National Meeting, San Francisco, California
Aug., 2005 Rational design of organocatalysts using quantum mechanical calculations: Towards new catalytic proline derivatives for the diastereoselective intermolecular aldol and Mannich reactions, Cheong, P. H.-Y.; Houk, K. N.; Zhang, H.; Thayumanavan, F.; Tanaka, F; Barbas, C. F., III, 230th ACS National Meeting. San Diego, California
Conference Poster Presentations
Aug., 2008 Synthetic Scope and Mechanistic Origin of a New Series of Exo-Selective Intermolecular Diels-Alder Reactions, Lam, C.; Cheong, P. H.-Y.; Blasco Mata, J. M.; Stanway, S. J.; Gouverneur, V.; Houk, K. N. Tetrahedron Symposium, Berkeley, California
Jun., 2008 Quantum Mechanical Investigations of Mechanisms and Selectivities of Organometallic Reactions, Cheong, P. H.-Y.; Legault, C. Y.; Liu, P.; Iafe, R.; Cheong, M.; McCarren, P.; Houk, K. N. Houk65 Symposium - Organo, Bio, Nano, University of California, Los Angeles, California
Jun., 2007 Theory and Modeling of Stereoselective Organic Reactions, Cheong, P. H.-Y.; Legault, C. Y.; Lin, L.; Luft, J. A. R.; Um, J. M.; Houk, K. N. 232nd UCLA Graduate Symposium

Lectures
Jun., 2008 The Origins of Catalytic Efficiencies of Various Monomeric Rh(I)-Catalyzed (5+2) Cycloaddition Reaction, Houk 65 Symposium, University of California Los Angeles
Mar., 2008 Computational Investigation of the Mechanism and Selectivities of Planar Chiral Bronsted Acid Catalysis, Gregory C. Fu group, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Feb., 2008 Mechanisms and Selectivities of the Jamison Nickel Chemistry, Tim Jamison group, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jan., 2008 Computational Investigations of Synthetic Organic Reactions, Stephen L. Buchwald group, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mar., 2007 Rh(I)-catalyzed (5+2) Cycloaddition Reactions: A Computational Study into the Mechanism, Substrate Selectivities, Regioselectivity, and Catalyst Efficacy, Paul A. Wender group, Stanford University
Aug., 2006 Au(I)-catalysis and the enyne cycloisomerization reaction, F. Dean Toste group, University of California, Berkeley
Jan., 2006 Computational design of organocatalysts for the asymmetric mannich reactions: origins of diastereoselectivity and design principles for new diastereoselective reactions, Cheong, P. H.-Y.; Houk, K. N.; Barbas, C. F., III. 40th ACS Western Regional Meeting, Anaheim, California (oral)
Dec., 2005 Mechanisms and origins of stereoselectivity of organocatalysts, Donna Blackmond group, Imperial College, London, UK