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: Kun Huang (2025-).
• Student: Hengyi Shi (2024-).

Former Ph.D. students

• Kaiwen Fu (2025-2026)
  • Advised as a first-year Ph.D. student on low-rank matrix approximation.
• 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

• Jiuhua Hu (2024-2026), Main advisor: Daniel Appelö.
• Shixu Meng (2024-2025), Currently: Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Dallas.
• Zhichao Peng (2020-2023), Currently: Assistant Professor, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
• Juntao Huang (2018-2022), Currently: Assistant Professor, University of Delaware.
• 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.

Former M.Sc. students

• Tyson George (2023-2024), Project: Physics informed neural network with reduced basis method.
• Jing Huang (Visiting Master student, Chongqing University, China), Fall 2016, Project: Interior penalty discontinuous Galerkin method for wave equation.
• Jingyun Fan, Conrad Blom, Tong Mu (Spring 2015), Industrial math project: Using risk analysis in the control of medicine quality in limited-resource countries.
• Conrad Blom, Tong Mu, Xiaodan Liu (Spring 2016), Industrial math project: Improving medicines quality prediction in limited-resource countries.

Supervised undergraduate students

• Mingxiu Sui (Fall 2014), Ying Lu (Spring 2015), Zhaoyang Fu, Brad Yurgens (Spring 2016).