Webpage: https://webhome.auburn.edu/∼yzz0226/index.html
Email: yzhangpaul@auburn.edu
EMPLOYMENT
Assistant Professor
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Auburn University Aug 2022 – present
SEW Assistant Professor, University of California, San Diego 2019 – 2022
Mentor: Professor Andrej Zlatos
EDUCATION
University of California, Los Angeles 2013 – 2019
Ph.D. in Mathematics
Advisor: Professor Inwon C. Kim
Fudan University 2009 – 2013
B.A. in Mathematics
Thesis advisor: Professor Tijun Xiao
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Homogenization, free boundary problems, Porous Medium type equations, Hamilton Jacobi equation, optimal control problems, chemotaxis models and reaction-diffusion equations
INVITED TALKS
Analysis Seminar at UCSD, May 20, 2025
SOCAMS 2025 at UC Riverside, April 26, 2025
Online PDE seminars at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, March 14, 2025
AMS Southeastern Sectional Meeting at Clemson University, Clemson, SC, March 8–9, 2025
PDE seminar at University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, March 6, 2025
ACM seminar at the University of South Carolina, Nov 8, 2024
Analysis Seminar at UT Austin, Austin, TX, Oct 9, 2024
Colloquium at Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, Sep 19, 2024
Seminars on Analysis and Stochastic Analysis at Auburn University, Auburn, Sep 4, 2024
PDE conference in Moab, Utah, June 3–7, 2024
AMS Eastern Sectional Meeting at Howard University, Washington, DC, April 6–7, 2024
Seminars on Analysis and Stochastic Analysis at Auburn University, Auburn, March 20, 2024
PDE&GA seminar at University of Wisconsin-Madison, March 4, 2024
Analysis and Probability Seminar at Iowa State University, Ames, Feb 14, 2024
Virtual Analysis and PDE Seminar (online), Dec 14, 2023
Math Finance Colloquium, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, Nov 20, 2023
Special Session in Fall Southeastern Sectional Meeting at the University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL, Oct 13-15, 2023
SAMSA Masamu CRN Virtual Colloquia Series, Sep 26, 2023
Applied and Computational Math Seminar, Auburn University, Sep 15, 2023
Mini-symposium of ICIAM, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, Aug 20–25, 2023
Mathematics seminar, Shanghaijiaotong University, July 24, 2023
Mathematics seminar, Fudan University, June 12, 2023
Analysis Seminar at UCSD, May 30, 2023
AMS Southeastern Sectional Meeting at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Mar 18–19, 2023
PDE seminar at Georgia Tech, Atlanta, Feb 14, 2023
The 2023 Joint Mathematics Meeting (JMM 2023), Boston, January 04–07, 2023
Applied Math Seminar, Auburn University, Oct 28, 2022
Graduate Student Seminar, Auburn University, Oct 12, 2022
Applied Math Seminar, Auburn University, Sep 30, 2022
Zu Chongzhi Center Mathematics Research Seminar, Duke Kunshan, Sep 19, 2022
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Aug, 2022
Applied Math Seminar, Auburn University, June 15, 2022
UCSD postdoc seminar, May 12, 2022
Berjing International Center for Mathematical Research (online), Mar 8, 2022
Yau Mathematical Sciences Center (online), Tsinghua University, Mar 4, 2022
Financial Math Seminar, University of Michigan (online), Jan 19, 2022
Analysis seminar (online), UCLA/USC joint seminar, Nov 2, 2021
Undergraduate Colloquium, Mathematics Department, UCSD, Oct 25, 2021
Analysis seminar (online), UCSD, Oct 12, 2021
Applied Mathematics Seminar (online), The University of Utah, Oct 4, 2021
Mathematics seminar (online), Fudan University, Sep 8, 2021
Analysis and PDE seminar (online), Durham University, UK, June 2, 2021
Topics in qualitative and quantitative properties of partial differential equations mini-symposium (online), 3rd Annual Meeting of the SIAM Texas-Louisiana Section, Oct 16-18, 2020
Southern California Applied Mathematics Symposium, California Institute of Technology, Apr 27, 2019
Analysis Seminar, University of California San Diego, Apr 4, 2019
Analysis and PDE Seminar, University of California Los Angeles, Nov 20, 2018
Analysis Seminar, University of California San Diego, Oct 23, 2018
PDE seminar, Georgia Institute of Technology, Sep 4, 2018
Southern California Applied Mathematics Symposium, University of California Santa Barbara, Apr 28, 2018
Particle Methods and Nonlocal Partial Differential Equations, AMS Sectional Meeting, University of California, Riverside, Nov 4-5, 2017
GSO Seminar, Analysis and PDE Seminar, University of California Los Angeles, Apr 2014
HONORS AND AWARDS
Jack B. Brown Endowed Faculty Award, 2025-2026
CAREER, National Science Foundation, DMS-2440215 (PI), 2025–2030
Title: CAREER: Homogenization and Free Boundary Problems
Travel Support for Mathematicians from Simons Foundation, MPS-TSM-00007305, 2024–2029
AMS-Simons travel grant, 2021–2022 (extended to 2023)
Pacific Journal of Mathematics Dissertation Prize, 2019
Girsky Fellowship Award, 2018–2019
SERVICE
Organize Applied and Computational Mathematics Seminars, Fall 2025
Co-organize Seminars on Analysis and Stochastic Analysis with Prof. Le Chen, Fall 2023 – Spring 2025
Co-organizer of AMS Southeastern Sectional Meeting, Mobile, AL, October 13 – 15, Fall 2023
Journal refereeing:
Journal of Functional Analysis, Mathematische Annalen, SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, Stochastic Processes and their Applications, SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis, Journal of Differential Equations, Interfaces and Free Boundaries, Nonlinearity, Nonlinear Analysis, SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, SIAM Journal on Financial Mathematics, Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, Applied Mathematics & Optimization, Stochastics and Partial Differential Equations: Analysis and Computations, Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, Differential Integral Equations, Advanced Nonlinear Studies, Computational and Applied Mathematics, Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences
Co-organized UCSD Analysis Seminar with Prof. Andrej Zlatoˇs, Fall 2021 – Spring 2022
GRADUATE STUDENTS
Zulaihat Hassan co-advising with Prof. Wenxian Shen, expected to graduate in 2026.