Qiang Du
Qiang Du | |
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| Nationality | Chinese |
| Alma mater | University of Science and Technology of China (B.S., 1983) Carnegie Mellon University (Ph.D., 1988) |
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| Fields | Applied Mathematics |
| Institutions | Pennsylvania State University (2001-2014) Columbia University |
| Doctoral advisor | Max D. Gunzburger |
Qiang Du, (Chinese: 杜强), Fu Foundation Professor of Applied Mathematics at Columbia University, is a mathematician and computational scientist. Prior to moving to Columbia, he was the Verne M. Willaman Professor of Mathematics at Pennsylvania State University affiliated with the Pennsylvania State University Department of Mathematics and Materials Sciences.
Education
After completing his BS degree at University of Science and Technology of China in 1983,[1] Du earned his Ph.D. degree from Carnegie Mellon University in 1988. His thesis was written under the direction of Max D. Gunzburger.[2]
Selected publications
His two most often cited papers are
- Qiang Du, Vance Faber, and Max Gunzburger, "Centroidal Voronoi tessellations: Applications and algorithms", SIAM Review 41 (1999), no. 4, pp. 637–676. MR1722997 (cited 1745 times)
- Qiang Du,[2] Max Gunzburger, and Janet S. Peterson, "Analysis and approximation of the Ginzburg-Landau model of superconductivity", SIAM Review 34 (1992), no 1, 54-81. MR1156289 (cited 461 times)
Students and post-doctorates
As of June 2018, 17 students had completed their Ph.D. degrees under Du's supervision. He had also supported 10 post-doctorates.
Recognition
Du was elected a fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics in 2013 for "contributions to applied and computational mathematics with applications in material science, computational geometry, and biology."[3] In 2017 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.[4]
References
- ^ "Qiang Du's Bio". Retrieved 2010-07-29.
- ^ a b Qiang Du at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ SIAM announces Class of 2013 Fellows, siam.org
- ^ 2017 Fellows, American Association for the Advancement of Science, retrieved 2017-11-20
External links
- Qiang Du at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Qiang Du's home page at Columbia University
- Qiang Du's home page at Penn State
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