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Contact:
Office: Cullimore Hall, room 523
Department of Mathematics, New Jersey of Technology, Newark NJ, 07102
Email: lushi@njit.edu
Academic Positions
- Assistant Professor, Mathematics, New Jersey Institute of Technology, 2018-
- Center for Computational Biology Research Fellow, Flatiron Institute, 2017-2018
- Visiting Assistant Professor, Mathematics, New York University, 2016-2018
- Senior Postdoctoral Fellow, Engineering, Brown University, 2013- 2016
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Imperial College London, Oct. 2011-Sept. 2013
- David Crighton Fellow, DAMTP, University of Cambridge, Oct.-Dec. 2012
Education
- Ph.D. in Mathematics, September 2011, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, USA
Dissertation: Chemotactic and hydrodynamic interactions in swimmer suspensions
Advisor: Prof. Michael J. Shelley
- M.Sc. and B.Sc. first class honours, Applied Mathematics, Sept. 2006, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada
Thesis: Fast numerical methods for surfactant-laden bubbles in Stokes flow Advisor:
Prof. Mary-Catherine A. Kropinski
Awards and Fellowships
- SIAM Early Career travel award to attend SIAM-CSE and SIAM-MS, 2013
- David Crighton Fellowship, DAMTP, University of Cambridge, 2012
- Fellowship in Mathematics, Imperial College, 2011-13
- Wilhelm Magnus Prize from the Courant Institute for significant contributions to Mathematics, 2011
- NYU GSAS Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship, 2010-11
- Morawetz (summer) Fellowship from the Courant Institute, NYU, 2007-10
- McCracken full fellowship for PhD studies, NYU-GSAS, 2006-11
- Accelerate (internship) grant from MITACS, Canada, 2005-2006
- SFU Nelson full fellowship for MSc studies 2004-05
- SFU President’s and Dean’s Honor Roll (GPA ≥ 4.0), 6/8 semesters
- SFU Shrum full academic scholarship and stipend for undergraduate studies.
Workshops and Professional Development
- Active Matter, Institut d’Etudes Scientifiques de Cargese, France 2016
- Aspen Center for Physics, Ocean BioPhysics, Jan 2015
- Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, Active Matter, spring 2014
- Aspen Center for Physics, Active Fluids, Jan 2014
- Complex Fluids and Active Media, Newton Institute, Cambridge, UK, summer 2013
- Biological & Complex Flow, Institut d’Etudes Scientifiques de Cargese, France 2012
- NSF-FRG on Biofluid Dynamics, New York University, Feb 2012
- Aspen Center for Physics, Growth and Form: Pattern Formation in Biology, Jan 2012
- Soft Condensed Matter Physics, Gordon Research Center, Aug 2011
- Boulder School for Condensed Matter Physics, UC-Boulder, July 2011
- Workshop on Natural Locomotion in Fluids and on Surfaces, IMA June 2010
Students supervised
- Leonardo Ripoli, MSc in Mathematics at Imperial College, 2012
Thesis: Modelling and computation of the dynamics of active particles
- Maxime Rebelle, MSc in Mathematics at Imperial College, 2012
Thesis: Computation of pulses propagating through a tree-shaped model neuron
- Radu Cimpeanu, MSc in Mathematics at Imperial College (co-supervised), 2012
Thesis: Computational study of single and two-phase flows past cylinders
- Personal tutor to five Mathematics undergraduates at Imperial College, 2011-2012.
Teaching Experience
- Instructor at NYU, Mathematical Modeling (Fall 2016)
- Instructor at NYU, Discrete Mathematics (Fall 2016, 2017)
- Instructor at ICL, Computations of Partial Differential Equations (graduate level, Spring 2013)
- Instructor at ICL, Mathematics for Aeronautical Engineering II (Spring and Summer 2012)
- TA at ICL: Mechanics (Spring 2013), Mathematics for Aeronautical Engineering I (2011), Mathematics for Chemical Engineering I (2011)
- TA at NYU: Mathematics in Biology (2010), Scientific Computing (graduate level, 2010), Numerical Analysis (2008), Calculus and Precalculus courses (2007)
- Instructor at New York University Calculus I (2008), Calculus for Social Sciences (2009)
- Instructor for Courant Splash, a high school outreach day, 2007-11
- TA at SFU: Numerical Analysis I and II (2004-5) Numerical Optimization (2004) Calculus for Biological Sciences (2004).
Organization and Outreach
- Organizer of minisymposium on "Multi-scale modeling and computations of active and complex fluids'' at SIAM CSE 2019
- Co-organizer of minisymposium on "Multi-scale modeling and computations of active suspensions'' at SIAM CSE 2017
- Co-organizer of minisymposium on "Numerical approaches in complex and active matter'' at SIAM CSE 2015
- Co-organizer of minisymposium on "Collective dynamics in active suspensions'' at SIAM Annual Meeting 2014
- Co-organizer of the Poster Session for Courant’s 75th anniversary, 2011
- Co-organizer of the Courant Graduate Student and Postdoc Seminar, 2009-11
- Co-organizer of the Courant Student Conference, 2009
- Organizing Committee of the Courant Splash high school outreach day, 2006-10.
Professional Organizations: APS, SIAM, EUROMECH.
Journal Reviewer for: Nature Communications, Nature Physics, Scientific Reports, Physical Review Letters, Physical Review E, Physical Review Fluids, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Soft Matter, Journal of Computational Physics, Physical Biology, Journal of Mathematical Biology, Journal of Physics Condensed Matter, New Journal of Physics, European Journal of Mechanics / Fluids B, Journal of Physics A, Physics of Fluids, and occasionally others.