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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
  
• 2007-2010 NSF-DMS, Analysis, algorithms and Computation of some model problems
                                   in interface and defect dynamics
  
• 2007-2011 NIH-NCI,   Multiscale modeling of leukocyte-tumor cell adhesion to endothelium in shear flow
  

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, current)
  
• Manlin Li (PSU, current)
  
• TianJiang Li (PSU, current)
  
• Yanxiang Zhao (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

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