YUAN LIU

Employment

• Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Physics, Wichita State University,  2023 - .

• Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Physics, Wichita State University,  2019 - 2023.

• Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Mississippi State University,  2015 - 2019.

• Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Michigan State University,  2012 - 2015.

Education

• Ph.D., Department of Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics, University of Notre Dame, 2012.

• M.Sc., Department of Mathematics, University of Science and Technology of China, 2007.

• B.Sc., Department of Mathematics, University of Science and Technology of China, 2004.

Research interests 

• High Order Numerical Methods for PDEs using: 

  • Finite difference/volume weighted ENO (WENO) methods 

  • Integral/Spectral deferred correction methods 

  • Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods 

• Computational Biology 

  • Zebrafish dorsal-ventral patterning 

  • Tumor growth problem 

  • Biological network formation: Cellular Potts model (CPM) and its continuous limit