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

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

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

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

 Research Interests

       Numerical partial differential equations

•        Well-balanced schemes for hyperbolic balance laws
•        High order Weighted Essential Non-Oscillatory (WENO) methods
•        Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) and local discontinuous Galerkin (LDG) methods
•        Shallow water equations
•        Energy conserving methods for the wave propagation problems

       Atmosphere ocean science

•        Multi-scale modeling and computation for geophysical flows
•        Canonical balanced model
•        Efficient algorithms for multi-scale method “superparameterization”