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Qiang Du Professor of Mathematics and Materials Sciences

Contact info:    (814)865-3674(office)    (814)865-3735(dept fax)

Education

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

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 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

• 2005-present   Professor of Materials Sciences, Penn State University
  
• 2004-2006     Member, Center for Machine Learning and Applications, Penn State University
  
• 2002-present   Member, MRI (Materials Research Institute), Penn State University
  
• 2002-present   Adjunct Professor, HKUST
  
• 1999-2002      Adjunct Professor, University of Science and Technology of China
  

Recent research grants

• 2000-2003 NSF-CCR, Centroidal Voronoi tessellations, algorithms and applications
  
• 2001-2004 NSF-DMS, Algorithms and computations for problems in material sciences
  
• 2002-2008 NSF-DMR, Multiscale multicomponent computational tools for material simulations (ITR)
  
• 2004-2007 NSF-DMS, Analysis and computation of problems in physical sciences
  
• 2004-2008 NSF-CCF, CAMLET: a combined ab-initio and manifold learning toolbox
  
• 2007-2011 NIH-NCI,   Multiscale modeling of leukocyte-tumor cell adhesion to endothelium in shear flow
  
• 2007-2010 NSF-DMS, Analysis, algorithms and computation of some model problems
                                     in interface and defect dynamics
  
• 2009-2011 DOE-CES, A Global, multi-resolution approach to regional ocean modeling
  

Research projects and publications

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

Current and past students

• Paul Gray, Ph.D (MSU 1996, first job: assistant professor@Emory University)
  
• Joan Remski, Ph.D (MSU 1997, first job: assistant professor@University of Michigan)
  
• Gregory Kibidze, M.S. (ISU 1997, first job: Senior research fellow, NEC, Japan)
  
• Tak-Wing Wong, M.Phil (HKUST, 1999, first job: software programmer@Hong Kong)
  
• Tianyu Zhang, M.Phil (HKUST, 2000, first 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. in Math & AeroEng (PSU, 2002, 1st job: software engineer@Ram Labs SanDiego)
  
• Maria Emelainenko, Ph.D (PSU, 2005, 1st job: CNA Postdoc at Carnegie Mellon)
  
• Xiaoqiang Wang, Ph.D (PSU, 2005, 1st job: IMA Industrial Postdoc@Univ of Minn.)
  
• Bo Li, M.S. in Math & Stat (PSU, 2006, 1st job: statistician@Florida Government, Dept of Health)
  
• Liyong Zhu, Ph.D (CAS, 2006, 1st job: Research scientist@IAPCM, Beijing)
  
• Jiakou Wang, Ph.D (PSU, 2007, 1st job: Quantitative Analyst@Lehman Brothers)
  
• Lei Zhang (PSU, 2009, 1st job: Post-doc@Univ of California Irvine)
  
• Tianjiang Li (PSU, current)
  
• Manlin Li (PSU, current)
  
• Yanxiang Zhao (PSU, current)
  
• Think Le (PSU, current)
  
• Yanping Ma (PSU, current)
  
• More about our research team and collaborator
  

Community service

• Editorial boards:
  SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis
  New Journal AMRX
  Disc Cont Dyn Sys-B
  Chinese Journal of Computational Physics

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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