Mingtao Xia

I am a tenure-track Assistant Professor in mathematics at the University of Houston. Before that, I was a Courant Instructor at New York University from 2023 to 2025. My research interests revolve around mathematical modeling and developing computational methods for reconstructing, modeling, and simulating single-cell molecular and population dynamics. Recently, I have been working on developing machine-learning-based tools for uncertainty quantification with applications in biology and finance.

I received my Ph.D. in applied mathematics from UCLA, Department of Mathematics, in 2023 (Dissertation: Mathematical Modeling and Computational Methods for Structured Populations). I received my B.S. degree in Applied and Computational Mathematics from Peking University, School of Mathematical Sciences, in 2019.

I work with students from different majors. I have several openings for research interns, fully funded PhD positions, and postdocs. If you are interested in joining our research efforts, please feel free to contact me ：）

Office: Philip Guthrie Hoffman Hall 636 

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Email: mxia4@uh.edu, xiamingtao@nyu.edu