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)