Education:
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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.
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M.S. (Mathematics), Shandong University, Shandong, China, 1991 –
1994.
Specialization: Computational Mathematics and its Applied
Software.
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B.S. (Mathematics), Shandong University, Shandong, China, 1987 –
1991.
Specialization: Computational Mathematics and its Applied
Software.
Employment:
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Assistant Professor,
University of Nevada, Las Vegas, August 2007 –
present.
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Assistant Professor, Pennsylvania State University, September
2005 – August 2007.
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Research Associate,
Simon
Fraser University, Canada, September 2004 – August 2005.
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Pennsylvania State University, December
2001 – August 2004.
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Project Manager & Chief Research and Development Scientist,
FEGEN Software Co. Ltd. (www.fegensoft.com),
Beijing, China, December 1997 – November 2001.
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Research Assistant, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong,
June 1997 – November 1997.
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Research and Development Scientist (part time), Offshore Oil
Exploration and Development Research Center, China National
Offshore Oil Corporation, Beijing, China, 1995 – 1996.
Grants
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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.
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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:
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Guest professor, College of Automotive Engineering, Tongji
University, China (Program of Introducing Talents of Discipline
– "111 Project"), Summer 2008.
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Listed in Who's Who in America.
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Member, American Society of Mechanical Engineers
(ASME).
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Member, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).
Visiting
positions:
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Guest professor, College of Automotive Engineering, Tongji
University (Program of Introducing Talents of Discipline – "111
Project"), Shanghai, 2008 – present
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Electrochemical Engine Center,
Penn State University, January – July 2006.
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Xiangtan University, China, 1 week, November 2004.
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Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne
National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois, 1 week, October 2003.
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Michigan State University, Michigan, USA, 1 week,
August 2003.
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University of California, San Diego, California, 2 weeks, March
2002.
Publications:
Projects:
conference &
COLLOQUIUM TALKS:
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International Conference on
Applied Analysis and Scientific Computation (ICAASC2009), Shanghai, China,
June 25-28, 2009
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ASME Seventh International Fuel
Cell Science, Engineering & Technology Conference,
Newport Beach, California, June 8-10, 2009
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15th International Conference on Finite Element in Flow
Problems, Toyko, Japan, April 1-3, 2009.
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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
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SIAM Conference on Computational
Science & Engineering (CSE09),
Miami, March 2-6, 2009.
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Workshop of Laplacian eigenvalues
and eigenfunctions: Theory, Computation, Application Program,
Institute for Pure
and Applied Mathematics (IPAM), Los Angeles, February 9 - 13,
2009.
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Colloquiums of Program of
Introducing Talents of Discipline (“111-project”), Tongji University, Shanghai,
China, May 27 and July 4, 2008.
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Colloquium of Math. Dept.,
Idaho State University, November 9, 2007.
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Numerical Analysis Seminar,
University of Maryland, March 27, 2007.
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Finite Element Circus,
Penn State University, November 3-4, 2006.
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Computation Day, Penn State
University, February 28, 2006.
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Workshop on New Directions in PDE,
Banff International Research Station (BIRS), Banff, Alberta,
Canada, July 2-7, 2005.
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Computation Day, Penn State
University, Feb. 17, 2005.
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Workshop of Singularities in
Materials,
Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (IMA),
Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 25-29, 2004.
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Finite Element Circus,
University of Pittsburgh, April 16-17, 2004.
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Finite Element Circus,
Cornell University, November 7-8, 2003.
Advisors
and collaborators:
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Jinchao Xu: Professor, advisor
of Postdoctoral fellow, Penn State.
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Chaoyang Wang: Professor,
collaborator of fuel cell projects, Penn State.
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Chun Liu: Professor,
collaborator of phase field method research, Penn State.
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Keith Promislow: Professor,
collaborator of fuel cell research, Michigan State.
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Long Chen: Assistant
Professor, collaborator of adaptive mesh method, UC Irvine.
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Youngju Lee: Assistant
Professor, Rutgers University.
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Su Zhou: Professor,
collaborator of fuel cell research, Tongji University.
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Ziping Huang: Professor,
collaborator of fuel cell research, Tongji University.
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Robert Russell: Professor,
Simon Fraser University.
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John Stockie: Associate
Professor, Simon Fraser University.
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William D. Gropp: Senior
Computer Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory.
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Michael J. Holst: Professor,
University of California, San Diego.
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Guoping Liang: Professor, advisor
of Ph.D., Institute of Math, Academia Sinica.
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Yirang Yuan: Professor, advisor
of M.A., Shandong University, China.
Thesis
Work:
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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.
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Mixed finite element method for
the integro-differential equations of evolution, M.A. Thesis, Shandong
University, China, 1994.
Professional Society:
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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:
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Program Committee Member, the Fourth International Conference on
High-Performance Computing, IEEE Computer Society, Beijing,
China, May 2000.
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Session Organizer, ASME Seventh International Fuel
Cell Science, Engineering & Technology Conference,
Newport Beach, California, June 8-10, 2009.