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Qiang Du Professor of Mathematics and Materterials Science

Contact info:   (814)865-3674 (o)   865-3735 (dept fax)     239MB, UP, PA16802

Education

• Ph.D (Mathematics, 1988)      Carnegie Mellon Univeristy
  
• B. S. (Mathematics, 1983)      Univeristy of Science and Technology of China
  

Selected professional experience

• 2006 Verne M. Willaman Professor of Mathematics, Penn State University
  
• 2001 Professor of Mathematics, Penn State University
  
• 1996-2001 Senior Lecturer and Professor, HKUST
  
• 1999 Research Scientist, LSEC, AMSS, CAS
  
• 1999 Professor, Iowa State University
  
• 1992 Visiting Associate Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
  
• 1990-1996 Assistant and Associate Professor, Michigan State Univ.
  
• 1990 Faculty research participation, Argonne National Lab
  
• 1988-1990 Dickson Instructor, University of Chicago
  
• 1988 Research Assistant, Los Alamos National Lab
  
• 1983 S.S.Chern Program, Academia Sinica (selected by AMS-SIAM committee)
  

Courtesy appointment

• 2007-present   Member, NSF-IUCRC (PennState-GaTech) CCMD Penn State University
  
• 2005-present   Professor of Materterials Science and Enginnering, Penn State University
  
• 2002-present   Member, MRI (Materials Research Institute), Penn State University
  
• 2002-present   Adjunct Professor, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
  
• 2005-2010      Visiting Professor and Oversea Outstanding Scholar, Beijing Normal University
  
• 2004-2006      Member, Center for Machine Learning and Applications, Penn State University
  
• 1999-2002      Adjunct Professor, University of Science and Technology of China
  

Recent research grants

• 2000-2003 NSF-CCR, Centroidal Voronoi tessellations, algorithms and applicaions
  
• 2001-2004 NSF-DMS, Algorithms and computations for problems in material sciences
  
• 2002-2007 NSF-DMR, Multiscale multicomponent computational tools for material simulations
  
• 2002-2004 NSF-DMS, Scientific computing research environments for mathematical sciences
  
• 2004-2007 NSF-CCF, CAMLET: a combined ab-initio and manifold learning toolbox
  
• 2004-2007 NSF-DMS, Analysis and Computation of problems in physical sciences
  
• 2007-2011 NIH - NCI, Multiscale modeling of leukocyte-tumor cell adhesion to endothelium in shear flow
  
• 2007-2010 NSF-DMS, Analysis and Computation of some model problems in interface and defect dynamics
  
• 2009-2011 DOE-CES, A Global, Multi-Resolution Approach to Regional Ocean Modeling
  
• 2009-2010 SANDIA LAB, Mathematical and Numerical Analysis of Peridynamic Models
  
• 2010-2013 NSD-DMS, Mathematical and computational studies of interfaces and defects
  
• 2010-2014 DOE-ASC, Mathematical and Numerical Analysis of Peridynamics for Multiscale Problems in Solids
  
• 2006- present, support from the Verne M. Willaman fund and NSF-IUCRC CCMD at PSU

Research projects and publications

• Check the links to my research page
• List of publications by year.
• List of publications via Google Scholar.

Current and past students

• Paul Gray, Ph.D (MSU 1996, first job: assistant professor@Emory University)
  
• Joan Remski, Ph.D (MSU 1997, 1st job: assistant professor@University of Michigan)
  
• Gregory Kobidze, M.S. (ISU 1997, first job: Research Scientist@Mitsubishi)
  
• Tak-Wing Wong, M.Phil (HKUST, 1999, 1st job: software programmer@Hong Kong)
  
• Tianyu Zhang, M.Phil (HKUST, 2000, 1st job: PhD@UMN, Post-dco@Florida State Univ)
  
• Lili Ju, Ph.D (ISU, 2002, co-supervised with M.Gunzburger, 1st job: IMA post-doc@Univ of Minn)
  
• Anthony Faulds, M.S., Math & AeroEng (PSU, 2002, 1st job: software engineer@Ram Labs SanDiego)
  
• Maria Emelainenko, Ph.D (PSU, 2005, 1st job: CNA Postdoc@Carnegie Mellon)
  
• Xiaoqiang Wang, Ph.D (PSU, 2005, 1st job: IMA Industrial Postdoc@Univ of Minn.)
  
• Bo Li, M.S., Math & Stat (PSU, 2006, 1st job: statistician@Florida Government, Dept of Health)
  
• Liyong Zhu, Ph.D (CAS, 2007, 1st job: Research scientist@IAPCM, Beijing)
  
• Jiakou Wang, Ph.D (PSU, 2007, 1st job: Quantitative analyst@Lehman Brothers)
  
• Lei Zhang Ph.D (PSU, 2008, 1st job: Visiting Assi. Prof@Univ of California@Irvine)
  
• Tianjiang Li, Ph.D (PSU, 2009, 1st job: Imaging scientist@CGGVeritas)
  
• Manlin Li, Ph.D (PSU, 2010, 1st job: Software developer@Microsoft)
  
• Yanxiang Zhao, Ph.D (PSU, 2011, 1st job: Post-doc @UCLA and @UCSD)
  
• Yanping Ma, Ph.D (PSU, 2011, co-supervisor: C. Dong, Bioeng; 1st job: tenure-track@LMU)
  
• Mathew Baran, M.S., (PSU, 2012, 1st job: researcher@ARL)
  
• Kun Zhou, Ph.D (PSU, 2012, 1st job: Quant@UBS)
  
• Thinh Le (PSU, 2012, 1st job: faculty@VNU Hanoi)
  
• Jingyan Zhang (PSU, 2012, 1st job: Quant@Hedgefund)
  
• Peter Gael (PSU, current, co-supervisor: L. Long, Aero Eng)
  
• Qichuan Bai (PSU, current, co-supervisor: Andrew Belmonte, Math)
  
• Zhan Huang (PSU, current)
  
• More about our research team and collaborators
  

Community service

• Editorial boards:
  SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics (from 2012)
  SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis (from 2001-2011)
  Comm. in Comp. Physics
  Appl. Math. Res. eXp.
  Disc Cont Dyn Sys-B
  Numer Math: Theory, Methods and Applicarions
  Mathematics Research and Applications
  Communications in Mathematics and Statistics
  

Hobbies and Miscellanies

• My Erdös number is 2
• Not to be confused with the conventional terms, in terms of collaboration distance,
  my Gauss number is 6,
  my Hilbert number is 5, not 2\sqrt(2),
  my SS Chern number is 4,
  my Einstein number is also 4, but
  my Ladyzhenskaya number is 2,
  my Euler number is inf (whose isn't?)
  my (enter your name) number is to be computed
  

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