Employment

Chair, Department of Mathematics, Wayne State University, 2017 - present Professor, Department of Mathematics, Wayne State University, 2018 Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Wayne State University, 2015 - 2018 Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Wayne State University, 2011 - 2015 IMA Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, University of Minnesota, 2010 - 2011 Philip T. Church Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Mathematics, Syracuse University, 2008 - 2010

Education

Ph.D. in Mathematics, The Pennsylvania State University, 2008 Ph.D. Minor in High Performance Computing, The Pennsylvania State University, 2008 B.S. in Computational Mathematics, Peking University, China, 2002

Visiting Positions

Invited Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Lorraine, France, 07/2019 Visiting Professor, Laboratoire de Mathématiques et leurs Applications de Valenciennes (LAMAV), Polytechnic University of Hauts-de-France, France, 10-11/2018 IMA Visitor, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, University of Minnesota, 01-05/2016 Faculty Research Fellow, Air Force Test Center, United States Air Force, 05-08/2015

Selected Honors & Awards

Research Honors & Awards --------------------------------------------------------- NSF Computational Mathematics Research Grant (PI) DMS-2208321, National Science Foundation, 2022 Excellence in Postdoctoral Mentorship Award, Wayne State University, 2021 Faculty Competition for Postdoctoral Fellows Award (PI), Wayne State University, 2019 Invited Lecture (45 minutes) at International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians (ICCM), Beijing, China, 2019 NSF Computational Mathematics Research Grant (PI) DMS-1819041, National Science Foundation, 2018 Career Development Chair Award (PI), Wayne State University, 2017 IMA General Membership, Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, 2016 U.S. Air Force Faculty Fellowship, Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), 2015 Grants Plus Award (PI), Wayne State University, 2015 NSF Computational Mathematics Research Grant (PI) DMS-1418853, National Science Foundation, 2014 Third Annual Research Cluster Grant (lead PI), Silicon Mechanics, 2014 Fan China Exchange Grant (PI), American Mathematical Society, 2013 University Research Grant (PI), Wayne State University, 2013 NSF Computational Mathematics Research Grant (PI) DMS-1158839, National Science Foundation, 2011 University Startup Fund (PI), Wayne State University, 2011 International Congress of Mathematicians Travel Award, American Mathematical Society, 2010 Best Paper Award, Copper Mountain Conference on Multigrid Methods, 2007 International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics Travel Award, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 2007 Third Place of the Poster Presentation Competition, the Second Annual Computation Day, Penn State University, 2006 Honorable Mention, the Mathematical Contest in Modeling, Peking University, 2001

Education & Service Awards --------------------------------------------------------- Knowledge on Demand Grant (lead PI), Wayne State University, 2020 Student Service Fee Grant (PI) for Instructional Technology, Wayne State University, 2018 Sub-grant of the NIH Wayne State Broadening Experiences in Scientific Training (BEST) Program (co-PI), 2017 ZZRQ Outstanding Service Award, Penn State University, 2008 Charles H. Hoover Memorial Teaching Award, Penn State University, 2007 Certificate of Teaching with Technology, Penn State University, 2007 Graduate Assistant Teaching Award, Penn State University, 2006

Curriculum Vitae