EDUCATION
1991 - 1995 Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, New York, NY. Ph.D., September 1995.
1989 - 1991 Duke University, Durham, NC. M.S., May 1991.
1984 - 1987 Fudan University, Shanghai, China. B.S., July 1987.
EXPERIENCE
2026 - present Department of Mathematics, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Chair Professor of Mathematics.
2017 - 2026 Department of Applied Mathematics, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, Chair and Professor of Mathematics.
2006 - 2017 Department of Mathematics, Penn State University, University Park, PA. Professor of Mathematics.
2012 University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany. Giovanni-Prodi Chair Professor of Mathematics.
2011 - 2012 University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. Professor of Mathematics.
2008 - 2010 nstitute for Mathematics and Its Applications, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN. Professor of Mathematics and Associate Director.
GRANT PROPOSALS
2024 National Science Foundation grant on Collaborative Research: Energetic Variation Based Numerical Studies in Complex Fluids with Thermo-Chemo-Mechanical Effects, (PI, coPI with Yiwei Wang of University of California at Riverside and Guosheng Fu of University of Notre Dame, 2024–2027).
2022 National Science Foundation grant on Energetic Variational Inference: Foundations, Algorithms, and Applications, (coPI with Lulu Kang and Yiwei Wang, 2022–2026).
2022 National Science Foundation grant on Institute for Data, Econometrics, Algorithms and Learning (IDEAL), (PI, coPI with Binghui Wang, 2021–2026).
2021 National Science Foundation grant on Collaborative Research: DMREF: Microstructure by Design: Integrating Grain Growth Experiments, Data Analytics, Simulation and Theory, (PI. coPI with Katayun Barmak of Columbia, Yekaterina Epshteyn of Utah and Jeffrey Rickman of Lehigh, 2021–2027).
2020 National Science Foundation grant on Collaborative Research: Multi-Scale Modeling and Numerical Methods for Charge Transport in Ion Channels (PI, coPI with Wei Cai of Southern Methodist University, 2020–2024).
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
2017 - 2026 Department of Applied Mathematics, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL. Chairman.
2016 - 2018 Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), The Committee on Committees and Appointments.
2014 - 2017
2019 - 2020 Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). Panel for Mathematics and Statistics.
2008 - 2010 Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN. Associate Director.
AWARDS
2025 Elected Fellow, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).
2023 Elected Fellow, American Mathematical Society (AMS).
2019 Householder Lecture, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee and University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee.
2019 Dean’s Award on Excellence in Research, College of Science, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois.
2014 Teresa Cohen Mathematics Service Award. Department of Mathematics, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania.
2004 JSPS Fellow. Department of Mathematics, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan.
EDITORIAL BOARD
Communications in Mathematical Sciences
SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis
Kinetic and Related Models
Analysis and Application
Communications in Analysis and Mechanics (CAM)
Computational and Mathematical Biophysics (CMB)
Journal of Mathematical Study
Interfaces and Free Boundaries (IFB) of European Mathematical Society
Professional Society
American Mathematical Society (AMS)
American Physical Society (APS)
Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Sigma Xi (elected member, 2020)