Short Bio:  

Dr. Shixin Xu is an applied mathematician whose research focuses on mathematical modeling, scientific computing, complex fluids, computational neurobiology, and data-driven methods for biomedical and industrial applications. His work develops thermodynamically consistent models, structure-preserving numerical schemes, and data-driven computational frameworks for complex coupled systems involving fluid flow, ion transport, osmotic effects, interfacial dynamics, and biological transport processes.

His recent research includes semi-permeable interface flows, electrohydrodynamics of droplets, reactive and active interfacial transport, glymphatic clearance and optic nerve microcirculation, chronic disease risk prediction, and parameter optimization in industrial systems. These studies combine mathematical analysis, numerical methods, and computational modeling to investigate multiscale transport mechanisms and to address problems arising in biology, medicine, and engineering.

Dr. Xu has published extensively in applied mathematics, computational science, biophysics, and data science, with recent papers appearing in Journal of Computational Physics, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, Physical Review Fluids, Pattern Recognition, Neurocomputing, and ICML. His research has been supported by national, local government, university, and industry funding.

In addition to research, Dr. Xu is actively involved in interdisciplinary education and student mentorship. He has supervised research staff, graduate students, and undergraduate research projects, and has organized multiple workshops and conferences on applied mathematics, interface dynamics, scientific computing, and interdisciplinary modeling.

Education

• Ph.D. (Advisors Xingye Yue, Chun Liu) Computational Mathematics, University of Science and Technology of China, 2008-2013.

Research Interest

• Machine Learning and Data-Driven Model for Cardiopulmonary Disease

• Neurovascular Coupling Model

• Energetic Variational Approach to Complex Fluid

  • • Blood Clot Formation and Deformation

    • Moving Contact Line

    • Fluid-Structure Interaction and Cell Motion

• Electrodynamics from Nanoscale (Ion Channels) to Tissue Scale  

• Homogenization Theory and Multiscale Modeling

Professional Experience

• 05/21/2026- now,   Associate Professor, Duke Kunshan University

• 08/15/2019- 05/20/2026,   Assistant Professor, Duke Kunshan University

• 08/01/2017-08/01/2019, Postdoc in Fields Institute, Toronto, ON, CA, (with Dr. Arvind Gupta  &  Dr. Huaxiong Huang).

• 07/01/2016-07/02/2017, Postdoc at University of California, Riverside (with Dr. Mark Alber & Dr. Zhiliang Xu).

• 07/01/2015-06/30/2016, Postdoc at University of Notre Dame (with Dr. Mark Alber & Dr. Zhiliang Xu).

• 07/31/2013- 06/30/2015, Postdoc at National University of Singapore (with Dr. Weiqing Ren).

• 03/15/2012-05/13/2013, Visitor in Penn. State University (with Dr. Chun Liu).

• 04/15/2012-08/14/2012, Visitor in University of Wuerzburg (with Dr. Anja Schlömerkemper)

Presentations 

• 08/21/2023, ICIAM 2023, On mathematical modeling and simulation of droplets, Tokyo, Japan

• 07/15/2023, CSCM  Annual Meeting, Algorithms and Analysis for Nonlinear Parabolic Equations, Nanjing, China

• 12/07/2022, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

• 11/19/2022, CSIAM annual meeting, mini-symposium, China

• 11/02/202, Shanghai University, Shanghai

• 07/04/2022, Workshop on interface problems: modeling, theory and numerics, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China

• 06/11/2022, Workshop on Collective Dynamics and Networks, Duke Kunshan University, China

• 05/27/2022,  Pudong Forum of Fluid Physics, New York University Shanghai, Shanghai, China

• 04/08/2022, Beijing Normal University, China

• 02/21/2022, Wuhan University, China 

• 10/01/2021, Penn. State University, USA 

• 07/28/2021, The Institute of Computational Mathematics and Scientific/Engineering Computing of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China 

• 07/25/2021, University of Science and Technology of Beijing, Beijing, China 

• 07/23/2021, SIAM Annual Meeting, USA 

• 06/28/2020, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen,  China 

• 10/16/2020, Fudan University, Shanghai, China 

• 09/18/2020, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China 

• 01/20/2020, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China

• 01/24/2020, Soochow University, Suzhou, China 

• 09/23/2019, United International College, Zhuhai, China 

• 06/10/2019, CAIMS annual meeting, Fluid Dynamics/Industrial Applications, Whistler, Canada

• 08/28/2017, Workshop on Wave Transport of Ionic Species, Fields Institute, Toronto, Canada 

• 08/04/2016, Mechbio Symposium: Putting Together the Cell Mechanome, California Technology Institute, US A

• 07/11/2016, SIAM, Life Science, Boston, USA

• 02/12/2016, The 8th International Bio-fluid Symposium, California Institute of Technology, USA 

• 11/19/2015, American Physical Society Prairie Section Meeting, University of Notre Dame,  USA 

• 07/01/2015, The 9th International Conference on Computational Physics, Singapore 

• 05/28/2013, Workshop on Mathematical Modeling of Molecular Biology, Suzhou, China 

• 09/19/2011, The $9^{th}$  China  National Computational Congress of Computational   Mathematics, Zhengzhou, He Nan, P.R. China