Education:

l  Ph.D. (Mathematics), Institute of Mathematics, Academia Sinica, Beijing, China, 1994 – 1997.

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

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

Specialization: Computational Mathematics and its Applied Software.

l  B.S. (Mathematics), Shandong University, Shandong, 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, 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  Project Manager & Chief Research and Development Scientist, FEGEN Software Co. Ltd. (www.fegensoft.com), Beijing, China, December 1997 – November 2001.

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

l  Research and Development Scientist (part time), Offshore Oil Exploration and Development Research Center, China National Offshore Oil Corporation, Beijing, China, 1995 – 1996.

 

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.

 

Honors and Awards:

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

l  Listed in Who's Who in America.

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

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

 

Publications:

 

Projects:

 

conference & COLLOQUIUM TALKS:

l  International Conference on Applied Analysis and Scientific Computation (ICAASC2009), Shanghai, China, June 25-28, 2009

l  ASME Seventh International Fuel Cell Science, Engineering & Technology Conference, Newport Beach, California, June 8-10, 2009

l  15th International Conference on Finite Element in Flow Problems, Toyko, Japan, April 1-3, 2009.

l  Workshop of higher order geometric evolution equations: Theory and Applications from Microfluidics to Image Understanding, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (IMA), Minneapolis, Minnesota, March 23-26, 2009

l  SIAM Conference on Computational Science & Engineering (CSE09), Miami, March 2-6, 2009.

l  Workshop of Laplacian eigenvalues and eigenfunctions: Theory, Computation, Application Program, Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM), Los Angeles, February 9 - 13, 2009.

l  Colloquiums of Program of Introducing Talents of Discipline (“111-project”), Tongji University, Shanghai, China, May 27 and July 4, 2008.

l  Colloquium of Math. Dept., Idaho State University, November 9, 2007.

l  Numerical Analysis Seminar, University of Maryland, March 27, 2007.

l  Finite Element Circus, Penn State University, November 3-4, 2006.

l  Computation Day, Penn State University, February 28, 2006.

l  Workshop on New Directions in PDE, Banff International Research Station (BIRS), Banff, Alberta, Canada, July 2-7, 2005.

l  Computation Day, Penn State University, Feb. 17, 2005.

l  Workshop of Singularities in Materials, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (IMA), Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 25-29, 2004.

l  Finite Element Circus, University of Pittsburgh, April 16-17, 2004.

l  Finite Element Circus, Cornell University, November 7-8, 2003.

 

Advisors and collaborators:

l  Jinchao Xu: Professor, advisor of Postdoctoral fellow, Penn State.

l  Chaoyang Wang: Professor, collaborator of fuel cell projects, Penn State.

l  Chun Liu: Professor, collaborator of phase field method research, Penn State.

l  Keith Promislow: Professor, collaborator of fuel cell research, Michigan State.

l  Long Chen: Assistant Professor, collaborator of adaptive mesh method, UC Irvine.

l  Youngju Lee: Assistant Professor, Rutgers University.

l  Su Zhou: Professor, collaborator of fuel cell research, Tongji University.

l  Ziping Huang: Professor, collaborator of fuel cell research, Tongji University.

l  Robert Russell: Professor, Simon Fraser University.

l  John Stockie: Associate Professor, Simon Fraser University.

l  William D. Gropp: Senior Computer Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory.

l  Michael J. Holst: Professor, University of California, San Diego.

l  Guoping Liang: Professor, advisor of Ph.D., Institute of Math, Academia Sinica.

l  Yirang Yuan: Professor, advisor of M.A., Shandong University, China.

 

Thesis Work:

l  A Lagrange multiplier based domain decomposition method with non-matching grids for time-dependent problems, Ph.D. Thesis, Institute of Mathematics, Academia Sinica, Beijing, China, 1997.

l  Mixed finite element method for the integro-differential equations of evolution, M.A. Thesis, Shandong University, China, 1994.

 

Professional Society:

l  Deputy Secretary General, The Specialty Association of Mathematical & Scientific Software, China Software Industry Association, Beijing, China, 1999 – 2001.

l SIAM member, USA, 2009 – present.

l ASME member, USA, 2009 – present.

 

Conference Organization:

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

l  Session Organizer, ASME Seventh International Fuel Cell Science, Engineering & Technology Conference, Newport Beach, California, June 8-10, 2009.