VITA
Zhiqiang Cai

EDUCATION

B.A. Huazhong University of Science and Technology(HUST), China 1982
M.S. Huazhong University of Science and Technology(HUST), China 1985
Ph.D. University of Colorado at Denver, USA 1990
  (Thesis advisor: Steve McCormick)  


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Professor Department of Mathematics  
  Purdue University 2003-
Associate Editor SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis 1999-2006, 2008-
Visiting Faculty Center for Applied Scientific Computing  
  Lawrence Livermore National Lab 7/01-12/01, 2003-
Associate Professor Department of Mathematics  
  Purdue University 1996-2003
Visiting Professor Department of Mathematics  
  University of California at Los Angeles 1/01-6/01
Invited Professor Department of Mathematics  
  Universite de Bordeaux 1 6/98-7/98
Invited Professor Department of Mathematics  
  Universite de Pau 5/98-6/98
Consultant Rocketdyne Division  
  Boeing North American 1994-97
Assistant Professor Department of Mathematics  
  University of Southern California 1991-96
Invited Visitor INRIA at Sophia-Antipolis 5/92-7/92
Visiting Member Courant Institute of Math. Sciences  
  New York University 1990-91
Math. Associate II Mathematical Sciences Division  
  Brookhaven National Laboratory 1/90-8/90


RESEARCH INTERESTS

Numerical Solution of Partial Differential Equations (Finite Element, Finite Volume, and Least-Squares methods)

Iterative Techniques (Multilevel and Domain Decomposition Methods)

Computational Solid and Fluid Mechanics, and Electromagnetics

A Posteriori Error Estimation and Adaptive Methods


PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES AND HONORS

Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

United States Association for Computational Mechanics

The 1989 SIAM Student Paper Prize for the paper entitled ``On the finite volume element method'' (July 1989, San Diego)