Students Supervised

[Dec. 2022-Dec. 2024] Zhibei Jiang, Visiting PhD student from Hunan University, Middle Tennessee State University.

[Jan. 2021- Dec. 2021] Zane Reed, Undergraduate Honor Thesis, Middle Tennessee State University.


Awards

[Sep. 2025]  NSF Award # 2532769,   LEAPS: Impact of Network Structures and Dispersal on Population Persistence in Stream Environment, PI, 9/15/2025-8/31/2027, $246,528. 

[Jun. 2024] Simons travel grant for mathematicians, PI, 9/1/2024-8/31/2029, $ 42000. 

[Apr. 2020] FRCAC Faculty Research Award, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN. 

[Jul. 2017--Jul. 2019] AMS-Simons travel grant, American Mathematical Society.

[Jul. 2010]   Best Undergraduate Thesis Award with paper published in Sci. China Math, Central South University, Changsha, China.

[Jan. 2009] Meritorious Winner, (International) Mathematical Contest in Modeling. 

[Jun. 2008] First Prize, China Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling, Hunan, China.