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  Our Research Team

We are constantly looking for diligient and bright students to join us
and to form an active and diverse research team.
If you are interested in working with us, email me!

  The Math members :

  • Li Tian is a Chowla postdoc in the dept, with partial support from our research project. He got his Ph.D from USC under the guidance of Lili Ju.
  • Brandon Chabaud joined us in 2009 as a post-doc for the DOE funded joint project on regional ocean modeling between PSU/CSU/FSU. He got his Ph.D from UMN under the guidance of Carme Calderer.
  • Manlin Li published a paper on the mathematical theory of the phase field models for fluid-membrane interactions in DCDS-B 2007. More recently, his interests have been on stochastic modeling and simulations.
  • Yanxiang Zhao is working on geometric variations and flows, recently he has been studying the anisotropic mean curvature energies and multicomponent membranes.
  • Thinh Le was studying other subjects of mathematics before joining our group, he recently proved an extension of the 3d MacPherson-Srolovitz formula for microstucture evolution/coarsening, the result has been published in CMS 2009.
  • Yanping Ma is working with the bioengineering colleagues on our joint research project.
  • A few others have passed their qualifying exams and are participating our group research activities.

  • Recently, we coined the term TEAMS as the theme for the CAM@PS group's effort in graduate student training. TEAMS stands for the Training in Experiments, Analysis, Modeling and Simulation for our mathematics students. We hope that this can better prepare them to excel in their interdisciplinary research career in computational and applied mathematics.
  • Our group has a weekly unannounced research seminar where the members present their latest reading/research/questions, (the discussions are often very lively and stimulating, and we get a lot of laughs if nothing else) others are welcome to join us by emailing me. And yes, there are participants of the seminar who are not in our group).
  • We are also working with other math faculty members and students, like Prof. Andrew Belmonte, Prof. Chun Liu, Prof. Ludmil Zikatanov.

  Collaborators on campus:

  • CAM@PS: we are all part of the " Computational and Applied Mathematics at Penn State"
  • MATCASE: MATerials: Computers-Algorithms-Science-Engineering; our interdisciplinary NSF-ITR research team from 2002-2007
  • We are working with Dr.Cheng Dong's experimental group of the bioengineering dept to study the tumor metastasis.
  • CCMD: Center for Computational Materials Design. We are part of this NSF supported Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC) between PennState and GaTech.
  • We had a joint project on applying data mining techniques to physical simulations with Prof.Hongyuan Zha of Computer science, as well as facutly members Richard Li in Statistics and Jorge Sofo in Physics dept
  • We also had joint research project with the Communications and Space Sciences Lab in the Electrical Engineering dept
  • We have close contact with the experimental groups on superconductivity and atomic physics at the Physics dept.
  • We also establishedworking relations with a research group in Chemistry.
  • I am serving (or served) on thesis committees outside the math dept, and learning sujects like: Bose-Einstein condensates, multicomponent material simulations, geological studies. Recent thesis committees we have served include:
    William Trevor, Ph.D., Atomic Physics
    Jianxin Zhu, Ph.D., Materials science
    Rolf Ryham, Ph.D., Mathematics
    Jingzhi Zhu, Ph.D., Materials science
    Jason Williams, Ph.D, Physics
    Yizhong Qu, Ph.D, Mech Engineering
    Weixin Yao, Ph.D., Statistics
    Michael Higley, Ph.D., Mathematics
    Jia Pan, Ph.D., Mathematics and Economics
    Qina Zhou, Ph.D., Electric Engineering
    Shenyang Hu, Ph.D., Material science
    Long Chen, Ph.D., Mathematic
    Michael Sostarecz, Ph.D., Mathematics

  Former members/students:

  • Paul Gray: Paul graduated from MSU, worked at Emory, now a tenured faculty in computer science in Iowa
  • Joan Remski: Joan graduated after I left MSU, she is now a tenured faculty teaching in Michigan
  • Lili Ju: Lili graduated from Iowa State, he was at IMA as an industrial post-doc, UMN and he is now a tenured associate professor in South Carolina.
  • Maria Emelianenko: Maria graduated from Penn State. she worked on some CVT related projects and optimization methods for computing thermodynamic phase diagrams in her thesis. She did her post-doc at the Center of Nonlinear Studies at Carnegie Mellon. In 2007, she recerived tenure track offers from the Univ of Minn, Purdue Univ and a number of other schools. She accepted a position at George Mason.
  • Xiaoqiang Wang: Xiaoqiang graduated from Penn State. At Penn State, he published several papers on image/data analysis and cell membrane modeling and computation. After working as an IMA industrial post-doc for a year, he joined the School of computational sciences at FSU as a tenure track faculty in fall of 2006.
  • Liyong Zhu: Liyong got his Ph.D from the Academy of Mathematical and System Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He studied the error analysis of mixed finite element methods for the phase field models of biological vesicles and also relations between quality of grids and efficiency of solvers. After graduation, he worked as a researcher at Inst App Phy Comp Math in Beijing and Nanyang Tech University at Singapore. He is now a faculty at BUAA in China.
  • Jiakou Wang graduated from Penn State. He worked on an interdisciplinary research project with the bioengineering group, involving mathematical modeling, analysis and simulations of problems related to tumor metastasis. He was the receipient of the Pritchard Fellowship in 2007. His expertise on stochastic analysis got him a big offer from a leading financial investment firm at the time of his graduation.
  • Lei Zhang defended his Ph.D thesis in Dec 2008 at Penn State. He worked on the mathematical models and algorithms for nucleation, a long standing problem in materials science. He was awarded a Pritchard fellowship. He and his wife are now both doing post-docs at UC Irvine.
  • Tianjiang Li has worked on the CAMLET project funded by NSF-CCF. His work involves the study of data-mining, in particular, with dimension reduction and source separation. He graduated in 2009 and he is now working on data and image analysis in Houston
  • Sovan Das was a post-doc with us for more than a year, he graduated from Cornell, and worked on the modeling and simulation of vesicle membranes. He joined Goodyear's computational modeling/simulation group after leaving Penn State and is now a faculty at the Indian Institute of Technology.
  • Jian Zhang was a post-doc. He graduated from UMN under the guidance of Fadil Santosa, and he worked on adaptive finite element methods for various applications. He is now working at the supercomputing center at CAS.
  • Wenxiang Zhu: Wenxiang was a post-doc supported in part by NSF-ITR, he worked on the phase field simulations and on some mathematical control problems and their approximations. Wenxiang is now a tenure track faculty at Idaho State Univ.
  • Peng Yu: Peng came to join us after getting his doctoral degree from Carnegie Mellon; he has been a Chowla research assistant professor, supported partly by our NSF-ITR, he worked on phase field simulations and complex fluids; He got a tenure track assistant professor offer from Ohio State in 2005, but he was also recruited by a big investment firm from Wall St (a computational mathematician with good modeling and simulation skills can go a long way!)
  • Zhaohui Huang. Zhaohui was a former post-doc working on algebraic multigrid. He is now working at the center for space science, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
  • Desheng Wang. Desheng was a former post-doc working on geometric meshing. He is now a tenure track faculty in Singapore.
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  • Former MS students: Anthony Faulds, Bo Yu, Gregory Kidzie, Tony Wong, Tianyu Zhang,...
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