About Me
Ph. D. in Applied Mathematics, Brown University, 2007.
Advisor: Chi-Wang Shu
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M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics, Brown University, 2004.
B. Sc. Special Class for the Gifted Young, University of Science and Technology of China, 2003.
Education
Academic Appointments
Associate Professor, Department of Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering, Michigan State University, 2017-.
Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Michigan State University, 2016-.
Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Michigan State University, 2011-2016.
Postdoc, University of Texas at Austin, 2007-2011.
Mentor: Irene M. Gamba
Research Interests
Discontinuous Galerkin finite element methods.
Deterministic numerical methods for kinetic equations.
High order numerical methods for Hamilton-Jacobi equations.
Sparse grid methods for high-dimensional PDEs.
Awards and Grants
Simons Fellow, 2018.
PI, NSF DMS-1720023, 2017-2020.
PI, NSF CAREER Award (DMS-1453661), 2015-2020.
PI, NSF DMS-1318186, 2013-2016.
Co-PI, AFOSR FA9550-12-1-0343, 2012-2017.
PI, NSF DMS-1016001/1217563, 2010-2014.
Research Group
Current Ph.D. students
Kai Huang (2018-), Andres Galindo Olarte (2019-).
Current postdoc
Juntao Huang (2018-).
Former Ph.D. students
Anqi Chen (Ph.D. 2019)
Thesis title: On superconvergent discontinuous Galerkin methods for Schrodinger equations and sparse grid central discontinuous Galerkin method.
Zixuan Wang (Ph.D. 2015)
Thesis title: Discontinuous Galerkin methods for Hamilton-Jacobi equations and high-dimensional elliptic equations.
Former postdocs
Zhanjing Tao (2016-2019), Puttha Sakkaplangkul (2017-2018), Xinghui Zhong (2012-2014).
Supervised undergraduate students
Mingxiu Sui (Fall 2014), Ying Lu (Spring 2015), Zhaoyang Fu, Brad Yurgens (Spring 2016).
