Department of Mathematics

Zhilan Feng

Zhilan Feng


Education

Ph.D., Applied Mathematics, Arizona State University 1994
M.S., Mathematics, Jilin University, P.R. China, 1985
B.S., Mathematics, Jilin University, P.R. China, 1982

Professional Experience

Postdoctoral Associate Cornell University 1994-1996
Assistant Professor Purdue University 1996-2001
Visiting Fellow Princeton University Spring 1998
Associate Professor Purdue University 2001-2005
Professor Purdue University 2005-Present

Research Interests

Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems, Mathematical Biology, Applied Mathematics

Publications

A list of abstracts of published papers

A DIMACS/AMS volume

A special MBE issue --Tribute to Horst R. Thieme on the Occasion of his 60th Birthday

#1 of the "ScienceDirect Top 25 Hottest Articles" in Mathematical Biosciences, July-Sep 2004

Grants

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NSF DMS-1022758 ($260,230) PI 2010-2013
NSF DMS-0920828 ($311,627) PI (with DeAngelis) 2009-2013
CDC Research contract ($20,389) PI 2009-2010
NSF DMS-0719697 ($144,800) PI (with Minchella) 2007-2010
CDC Research grant ($93,500) PI 2007-2008
JSMF Research award ($449,508) PI (with DeWoody and Swihart) 2003-2007
NSF DMS-0314575 ($389,013) PI (with Milner and Minchella) 2003-2007
PRF ($26,526) (for graduate research) 2003-2005
NSF SES-0119908 ($50,000) Co-PI (with Craig and Swihart) 2001-2002
NSF DMS-9974389 ($221,000) PI (with Milner and Minchella) 1999-2002
PRF ($23,332) (for graduate research) 1997-1999
NSF DMS-9720558 ($75,000) PI 1997-1999

Awards

Teaching for Tomorrow Award, Purdue University, 1998

Showalter Trust Award ($66,666), Purdue University, 2004

Ph.D. Advisor

Horst Thieme

Postdoctoral Advisor

Carlos Castillo-Chavez

Ph.D. Students

Lih-Ing Wu 2000 Associate Professor at Texas Tech
Cheng-Che Li 2002 Assistant Professor at SJSMIT, Taiwan
Xiaohong Wang 2005 American Express
Ya Li 2007 Assistant Professor at Beihang University, China
Libin Rong 2007 Tenure-track Assistant Professor at Oakland University
Pei Zhang 2007 HBK Investment
Yiding Yang 2010 Postdoc at Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville
Jorge Alfaro
Qing Han
Nancy Hernandez Ceron
Christina Lorenzo
Katia Vogt Geisse
Yiqiang Zheng

M.S. Students

Stephanie Gruver, 2001, Assistant Professor at Mount Marty College

Postdocs and Visitors

Dashun Xu 2004-2006 Tenure-track Assistant Professor at SIUC
Rongsong Liu 2006-2009 Tenure-track Assistant Professor at U. Wyoming
Zhipeng Qiu 2008 & 2011 Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, China
Sherry Towers 2010-2012
Georgi Kapitanov 2012-

Editorial Boards

Mathematical Biosciences, 2010-Present
SIAM J. Appl. Math., 2009-Present
Journal of Theoretical Biology, 2005-Present
Math. Biosci. and Engineering, 2004-Present

Conference/Workshop/Working Groups (Co)Organized

  • DIMACS working group on Genetics and Evolution of Pathogens, 2003


  • Banff workshop on Modeling the Impact of Policy Options during Public Health Crises, 2008 (with Fred Brauer and John Glasser)
    Group Photo


  • Differential Equations and Applications in Ecology and Epidemiology, 2008 (with Tim Lant)
    Group Photos The Song of John Matrix

  • AIM Workshop on Stochastic and Deterministic Spatial Modeling in Population Dynamics, 2009 (with Troy Day and Priscilla Greenwood)

  • NIMBioS Workshop on Modeling Dengue Fever, 2012 (with Derek Cummings, Michael Johansson, Jorge Velasco-Hernandez)
    Group Photo


    • Mathematical Biology Conference in China

    The 5th International Congress on Mathematical Biology, June 2011, China

    The Fourth Conference on Computational and Mathematical Population Dynamics (CMPD4), May 2013, China

    Books and Special Issues Edited

    Disease Evolution: Models, Concepts, and Data Analysis. Editors: Zhilan Feng, Ulf Dieckmann, Simon A. Levin. AMS, 2006.

    Differential Equations and Applications to Ecology and Epidemiology. Guest Editors: Zhilan Feng, Hal L. Smith, Glenn F. Webb. MBE, 7 (1), 2010.