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RESEARCH AREAS

Applied and Computational Mathematics with emphases on:

·       Data Science and Machine Learning with applications in geophysical, life, and materials science

·       Digital Twins for Health

·       Modeling and Computation of Soft Matter and Complex Biological Systems

·       Fluid Mechanics of Complex Flows and Rheology of Complex Fluids

·       Non-equilibrium Theories for Complex Systems (Kinetic and Continuum Mechanics Theories)

·       Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations

·       Applied Analysis of Dynamical Systems and PDEs

EDUCATION

Ph.D, Mathematics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 1991

MS, Mathematics,    The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 1988

BS, Mathematics,     Nankai University, Tianjin, P. R. China, 1982

PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT 

2008-Present,   Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of South Carolina

2013-2019,       College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of South Carolina

2003-2009,       Professor, Department of Mathematics, Florida State University

2001-2003,       Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Florida State University

1991-2001,       Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

1/1990-4/1990, Research Associate, CNLS, Los Alamos National Lab

OTHER APPOINTMENTS & AFFILIATIONS

2017-Present:  Thrust Leader, Modeling and Computational Core, SC EPSCOR Project on “Materials Assembly and Design Excellence in South Carolina”

2008-Present:   Adjunct Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, USC

2009-2019:       Founding Member, Member of Executive Committee, Interdisciplinary Mathematics Institute (IMI), USC

2008-2018:       Thrust Leader, Theory, Modeling, and Simulation, NanoCenter at USC

2011-2015:       Thrust Leader, Modeling and Simulation of Biofabrication, South Carolina EPSCOR Project on “Biofabrication

2004-2007:       Director of Applied and Computational Mathematics Program, Florida State University

2/2005-4/2005: Visiting Professor, IMA, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, NM

1/1999-5/1999: Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH), Chapel Hill, NC

AWARDS and HONORS

 

2020, USC Educational Foundation Research Award for Science, Mathematics, and Engineering

 


 

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