Collaborators on campus:
- CAM@PS:
we are all part of the "
Computational
and
Applied
Mathematics at
Penn
State".
We are also working with a number of math faculty members and students
at Penn State, like
Prof. Andrew Belmonte,
Prof. Chun Liu,
Prof. Ludmil Zikatanov.
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CCMD: Center for Computational Materials Design. We are part of this
NSF supported Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC)
between PennState and GaTech.
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We are working with Dr.Cheng Dong's experimental group of
the bioengineering dept on an NIH sponsored project
to study the tumor metastasis.
- MATCASE:
MATerials: Computers-Algorithms-Science-Engineering; our
interdisciplinary NSF-ITR research team from 2002-2007
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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
and colleagues in Chemistry.
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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
Venugopalan Vaithyanathan, Ph.D, Materials science
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
Jianxian Zhang, Ph.D in Materials science
Andong He, Ph.D in Mathematics
Tao Wang, Ph.D in Mathematics
Weiming Feng, Ph.D in Materials science
Lili Lei, Ph.D in Meteorology
Taewook Heo, Ph.D in Material science
Sheng Guang, Ph.D in Material science
Kunok Chang, Ph.D in Material science
Guifang Fu, Ph.D., Statistics
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
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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. Recently she
received a NSF career award.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Tianjiang Li has worked on the CAMLET project
funded by NSF-CCF. His work involved the study of
data-mining, in particular, with
dimension reduction and source separation.
He graduated in 2009 and he
is now working on seismic imaging at CGGVeritas
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Manlin Li defended his thesis on
the mathematical theory of the phase field models for
fluid-membrane interactions and the stochastic implicit
interface methods in 2010. He is now working at Microsoft.
- 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.
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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!)
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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.
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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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