2002 - 2006         Ph.D. in Mathematics, Brown University
                                     Advisor: Professor Chi-Wang Shu

       1997 - 2002         B. Sc. in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics
                                     University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)

 Employment

       2009 - Present    Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Tennessee

       2009 - Present    Research Staff, Computer Science and Mathematics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

       2006 - 2009        Assistant Research Scientist, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University

 Research Interests

       Design, analysis and implementation of accurate and efficient numerical methods for partial differential equations

•       Well-balanced schemes for hyperbolic equations with source terms

•       Efficient numerical methods for the shallow water equations; Storm surge modeling and coastal engineering

•       Energy-conserving method for the wave propagation problems

•       Efficient numerical methods for kinetic equations

•       Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) and local discontinuous Galerkin (LDG) methods

•       High order Weighted Essential Non-Oscillatory (WENO) methods for conservation laws

•       Multi-scale modeling and algorithms for geophysical flows

 Conferences/Workshops/Seminars

       Conferences co-organized:

•      The Second ORNL-UTK Numerical Day, Oak Ridge, TN, April 30, 2012.

•      2012 John H. Barrett Memorial Lectures: Recent Developments in Discontinuous Galerkin Finite Element Methods for Partial Differential Equations, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, May 9-11, 2012

•      The 37th Annual SIAM Southeastern Atlantic Section Conference, Oak Ridge National Lab and University of Tennessee at Knoxville, Oak Ridge, TN, March 22-24, 2013.

       Mini-symposium co-organized:

•      Mini-symposium (2 sessions) on Recent Progress in Computational Mathematics: Modeling, Analysis and Numerical Simulation, at the 35th SIAM Southeastern Atlantic Section Conference, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, March 26-27, 2011.

•      Mini-symposium (5 sessions) on Advances in High Order Numerical Methods for PDEs in Computational Mathematics, at the 7th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM 2011), Vancouver, Canada, July 18-23, 2011.

•      Mini-symposium (2 sessions) on High Order Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations, at the International Conference on Applied Mathematics, Modeling and Computational Science (AMMCS), Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, July 25 - 29, 2011.