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Brief CV

Assistant Professor, 2007 – present, University of Nevada Las Vegas

Assistant Professor,

    (fixed term)

2005 – 2007,

Pennsylvania State University
Research Associate, 2004 – 2005, Simon Fraser University
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2001 – 2004, Pennsylvania State University
R&D Scientist;     1998 – 2001, Institute of Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences                           
Research Assistant, 1997 – 1998, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Ph.D., 1994 – 1997, Institute of Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
M.Sc, 1991 – 1994, Shandong University
 B.Sc, 1987 – 1991, Shandong University
     
     
     

Guest professor,

2008 – present,

College of Automotive Engineering, Tongji University (Program of Introducing Talents of Discipline)

Member, SIAM, 2009 – present, University of Nevada Las Vegas
Member, ASME, 2009 – present, University of Nevada Las Vegas
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Curriculum Vitae

 

Education:

l  Ph.D. (Mathematics), Institute of Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, 1994 – 1997.

Specialization: Domain Decomposition Method, Finite Element Method and its Application on Scientific and Engineering Computing.

l  M.Sc. (Mathematics), Shandong University, China, 1991 – 1994.

Specialization: Computational Mathematics and its Applied Software.

l   B.Sc. (Mathematics), Shandong University, China, 1987 – 1991.

Specialization: Computational Mathematics and its Applied Software.

 

Employment:

l  Assistant Professor, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, August 2007 – present.

l  Assistant Professor (fixed term), Pennsylvania State University, September 2005 – August 2007.

l  Research Associate, Simon Fraser University, Canada, September 2004 – August 2005.

l  Postdoctoral Fellow, Pennsylvania State University, December 2001 – August 2004.

l  Research and Development Scientist, Institute of Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, March 1998 – November 2001.

l  Research Assistant, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, June 1997 – February 1998.

 

Grants

l  NSF Grant DMS-0913757 (PI), “Efficient numerical techniques of two-phase transport model in the cathode of hydrogen polymer electrolyte fuel cell”, 9/15/2009 – 8/31/2012.

l  UNLV Research Grant, RDA 08–Sun (PI), The Research Development Award, “High Performance Numerical Simulation on 3D Direct Methanol Fuel Cell (DMFC) Modeling”, 7/18/2008 – 7/31/2009.

 

Visiting positions:

l Department of Mathematics, Hong Kong City University, July – August, 2011.

l Guest professor, College of Automotive Engineering, Tongji University (Program of Introducing Talents of Discipline "111 Project"), Shanghai, China, May – August, 2008 – present.

l  Institute of Computational Mathematics and Scientific/Engineering Computing, Academy of Mathematics and System Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, June – August, 2010.

l  Electrochemical Engine Center, Penn State University, January – July, 2006.

l  Xiangtan University, China, November, 2004.

l  Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois, October, 2003.

l  Michigan State University, Michigan, USA, August, 2003.

l  University of California, San Diego, California, March, 2002.

 

Publications

 

Conferences/TALKS

 

Projects

 

Professional Society:

l  Panelist and grant proposal reviewer for the Numerical PDEs Panel of National Science Foundation, March 15-17, 2010.

l  Proposal reviewer for Nevada NASA Space Grant Consortium, 2010 - 2011.

l Referee for: Applied Mathematics Letters, Applied Mathematics and Computation, Applied Mathematical Modelling, Atmospheric Environment, Communications in Computational Physics, Communications in Mathematical Sciences, Computers and Fluids, Energy & Fuels, International Journal of Computer Mathematics, International Journal of Differential equations, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, International ASME Fuel Cell Science, Engineering and Technology Conference, Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Journal of Computational Physics, Journal of The Electrochemical Society, Journal of Power Technologies, Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, Mathematics of Computation, Numerical Algebra, Control and Optimization (NACO), Numerische Mathematik, Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations, Open Journal of Discrete Mathematics, Progress in Energy and Combustion Science, SIAM Journal of Numerical Analysis, Sensors.

l Session Organizer of the Workshop Multilevel Mesh Adaptivity and Beyond: Computational Methods for Solving Complex Systems, AMS 2011 Spring Western Section Meeting, Las Vegas, NV, April 30 - May 1, 2011.

l Session Chair of the Minisymposium Modeling PEM fuel cell start-up/shut-down operations - Modeling, Design, and Optimization for Low Temperature Fuel Cells, ASME Seventh International Fuel Cell Science, Engineering & Technology Conference, Newport Beach, California, June 8-10, 2009.

l   Member, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).

l   Member, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).

l  Program Committee Member, the Fourth International Conference on High-Performance Computing, IEEE Computer Society, Beijing, China, May 2000.

 

 

 

 

   

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