Education:
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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:
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Assistant Professor,
University of Nevada, Las Vegas, August 2007 –
present.
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Assistant Professor (fixed term), Pennsylvania State University, September
2005 – August 2007.
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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
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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.
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:
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Department of Mathematics, Hong Kong City University, July –
August, 2011.
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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.
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Electrochemical Engine Center,
Penn State University, January – July, 2006.
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Xiangtan University, China, November, 2004.
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Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne
National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois, October, 2003.
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Michigan State University, Michigan, USA, August, 2003.
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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.
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Member,
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).
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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.