Education
- B.S. Special Class for the Gifted Young, University of Science and Technology of China, 2003.
- M.S. in Applied Mathematics, Brown University, 2004.
- Ph.D in Applied Mathematics, Brown University, 2007.
- Advisor: Professor Chi-Wang Shu
Work experience
- Professor, Department of Mathematics and Affliated Faculty with CMDA program, Virginia Tech, 2023-.
- Professor, Department of Mathematics and Department of Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering, Michigan State University, 2021- 2024.
- Associate Professor, Department of Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering, Michigan State University, 2017-2021.
- Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Michigan State University, 2016-2021.
- Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Michigan State University, 2011-2016.
- Postdoc, University of Texas at Austin, 2007-2011.
- Mentor: Professor Irene M. Gamba
Research Group
Current members
- Postdoc: Shixu Meng (2024-), Jiuhua Hu (2024-).
- Student: Tyson George (2023-), Hengyi Shi (2024-).
Former Ph.D. students
- Andres Galindo Olarte (Ph.D. 2023 MSU)
- Thesis title: Superconvergence and accuracy enhancement of discontinuous Galerkin solutions for Vlasov-Maxwell equations and numerical analysis of a hybrid method for radiation transport
- First job after Ph.D.: Peter O’Donnell Jr. Postdoc Fellow, University of Texas at Austin.
- Kai Huang (Ph.D. 2022 MSU)
- Thesis title: Sparse grid discontinuous Galerkin methods for nonlinear optics and mathematical modeling of asynchronous data flow in parallel computers.
- First job after Ph.D.: Synopsys, North Carolina.
- Anqi Chen (Ph.D. 2019 MSU)
- Thesis title: On superconvergent discontinuous Galerkin methods for Schrodinger equations and sparse grid central discontinuous Galerkin method.
- First job after Ph.D.: Cadence Design Systems, Austin, TX.
- Zixuan Wang (Ph.D. 2015 MSU)
- Thesis title: Discontinuous Galerkin methods for Hamilton-Jacobi equations and high-dimensional elliptic equations
- First job after Ph.D.: Senior quantitative analyst, Ernst & Young LLP, New York City.
Former postdocs
- Zhichao Peng (2020-2023), Currently: Assistant Professor, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
- Juntao Huang (2018-2022), Currently: Assistant Professor, Texas Tech University.
- Zhanjing Tao (2016-2019), Currently: Associate Professor, Jilin University, China.
- Puttha Sakkaplangkul (2017-2018), Currently: Assistant Professor, King Mongkuts Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Thailand.
- Xinghui Zhong (2012-2014), Currently: Special Term-Professor, Zhejiang University, China.
Supervised undergraduate students
- Mingxiu Sui (Fall 2014), Ying Lu (Spring 2015), Zhaoyang Fu, Brad Yurgens (Spring 2016).