Research Grants

PI, NSF Mathematical Biology Division, DMS1853365, 2019-2022 (Co-PI: Hexin Chen).

Single PI, NSF Mathematical Biology Division, DMS1308948, 2013-2017.

Single PI, NSF Mathematical Biology Division, DMS1019544, 2010-2014.

Single PI, University of South Carolina ASPIRE I, 2013-2014.

Co-PI, South Carolina EPSCoR/IDeA GEAR program, 2011-2013.

Graduate Students

3: Shuang Liu, 2015-2019
First Position After Graduation: Postdoc at Los Alamos National Lab

2: Sameed Ahmed, 2012-2018
First Position After Graduation: Postdoc at University of Waterloo (Canada)

1: Kanadpriya Basu, 2006-2012
First Position After Graduation: Lecturer at University of North Texas

Editorial Board

Editor of Cogent Mathematics

Associate Editor of Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering

Academic Experience

Department of Mathematics, University of South Carolina, SC, USA
Professor, January 2018---
Associate Professor, August 2013-December 2017
Assistant Professor, August 2009-August 2013

Department of Mathematics, University of California at Irvine, CA, USA
Visiting Assistant Professor, July 2006-July 2009. Mentor: Professor Qing Nie

Education

Ph.D., May 2006, Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, SUNY at Stony Brook, New York, USA
Thesis: Turbulent mixing with scale breaking phenomena
Advisor: Professor James Glimm

M.S., May 1999, Department of Applied Mathematics, Southeast University, Nanjing, China
Thesis: The critical exponent of doubly singular parabolic equations
Advisor: Professor Mingxin Wang

B.S., May 1997, Department of Mathematics, Fudan University, Shanghai, China