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• 2025–Present: Professor, Department of Mathematics, Purdue University
• 2020–2025: Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Purdue University
• 2014–2020: Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Purdue University
• 2011–2014: Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Mathematics, MIT
• Ph.D. in Mathematics, Brown University (2011)
• B.Sc. in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, USTC (2006)

• Interests: applied mathematics, numerical analysis, and scientific computing including numerical PDEs and optimization algorithms
• Publications: 1 book, 50+ journal papers, 5 conference proceedings
• Talks: 80+ invited talks and presentations at universities and international conferences
• Grants: NSF DMS-2208518 (2022–2025), NSF DMS-1913120 (2019–2023), NSF DMS-1522593 (2015–2019)
• 5,000+ citations on Google Scholar; 2,000+ citations on American Mathematical Society MathSciNet database
• Stanford/Elsevier Top 2% Scientists List (2020, 2022–2025); Ranked 3rd among mathematicians receiving Ph.D. in 2011 (MathSciNet citations)

• Primary instructor at Purdue University, MIT, and Brown University. Courses include Numerical PDE, Numerical Optimization, Linear Algebra, Analysis, Differential Equations, and graduate-level computational mathematics courses.
• Postdoc and students supervised: 1 postdoc, 2 Ph.D. students completed and 2 current Ph.D. students, 5 co-advised graduate students, and 17 undergraduate students advised for research.