Past and current Ph.D. students of Professor Chi-Wang Shu

  • Past Ph.D. students
  • 1995
  • 1996
  • 1998
  • 1999
  • 2000
  • 2001
  • 2002
  • 2003
  • 2004
  • 2005
  • 2006
  • 2007
  • 2008
  • 2010
  • 2011
  • 2012
  • 2013
  • 2014
  • 2015
  • 2016
  • 2017
  • 2018
  • 2019
  • 2020
  • 2021
  • 2022
  • Current post-prelim Ph.D. students

    Past Ph.D. students

    1995

    1. Dr. Guang-Shan (Robert) Jiang (姜广山) , Ph.D. 1995. Thesis title: Algorithm analysis and efficient computation of conservation laws. First job after Ph.D.: post-doc at UCLA. Currently at: Florida. E-mail: gsjiang at yahoo.com
    2. Dr. Carl Quillen , Ph.D. 1995. Thesis title: Parallel ENO schemes applied to shock/cylinder interactions and numerical methods by radon transform. First job after Ph.D.: post-doc at Brown University. Currently at: Lincoln Laboratory, MIT, e-mail: cbq at ll.mit.edu
    3. Dr. Peter Wong , Ph.D. 1995. Thesis title: Computational algorithms for discontinuous problems. First job after Ph.D.: research engineer at Johnson & Johnson. Currently at: , E-mail:

      1996

    4. Dr. Stavros Christofi , Ph.D. 1996. Thesis title: The study of building blocks for essentially non-oscillatory (ENO) schemes. First job after Ph.D.: post-doc at Northwestern University. Currently at: Department of Mathematics, Western Connecticut State University, Professor. E-mail: christofis at wcsu.edu

      1998

    5. Dr. Sigal Gottlieb , Ph.D. 1998. Thesis title: Convergence to steady state of weighted ENO schemes, norm preserving Runge-Kutta methods and a modified conjugate gradient method. First job after Ph.D.: post-doc at Brown University. Currently at: University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, Chancellor Professor of Mathematics. E-mail: sgottlieb at umassd.edu

      1999

    6. Dr. Changqing (Peter) Hu (胡长青) , Ph.D. 1999. Thesis title: Numerical methods for hyperbolic equations on unstructured meshes. First job after Ph.D.: software engineer at Oracle. Currently at: KLA-Tencor, Principal Engineer. e-mail: changqing.hu at kla-tencor.com

      2000

    7. Dr. Olga Lepsky , Ph.D. 2000. Thesis title: High order numerical approximations of nonlinear Hamilton-Jacobi equations and approximation of elasticity problems using Stokes problems. First job after Ph.D.: software engineer at Parametric Technology Corporation. Currently at: Becker College, Associate Professor. E-mail: olepsky at gmail.com

      2001

    8. Dr. Jing Shi (石靖) , Ph.D. 2001. Thesis title: Some issues in high order numerical schemes for nonlinear hyperbolic conservation laws. First job after Ph.D.: post-doc at University of Texas at Austin. Currently at: Beijing Institute of Technology, Associate Professor. E-mail: jshi at bit.edu.cn

      2002

    9. Dr. Jue Yan (阎珏) , Ph.D. 2002. Thesis title: Discontinuous Galerkin finite element methods for PDEs with higher order spatial derivatives. First job after Ph.D.: post-doc at UCLA. Currently at: Iowa State University, Associate Professor. E-mail: jyan at iastate.edu

      2003

    10. Dr. Jennifer Ryan , Ph.D. 2003. Thesis title: Extension of a post-processing technique for the discontinuous Galerkin finite element methods for hyperbolic equations. First job after Ph.D.: Householder Postdoctoral Fellowship at Oakridge National Lab. Currently at: KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Professor and Division Head. E-mail: jryan at kth.se
    11. Dr. Kurt Sebastian , Ph.D. 2003. Thesis title: Multi domain weighted essentially non-oscillatory (WENO) method with interpolation at subdomain interfaces. First job after Ph.D.: Assistant Professor at US Coast Guard Academy. Currently at: Department of Mathematics and Technology, Flagler College, St. Augustine, Florida, Professor and Dean of the School of Business, Education, and Mathematics. E-mail: KSebastian at flagler.edu
    12. Dr. Yong-Tao Zhang (张勇涛) , Ph.D. 2003. Thesis title: Topics in structured and unstructured weighted ENO schemes. First job after Ph.D.: post-doc at UC Irvine. Currently at: University of Notre Dame, Professor. E-mail: yzhang10 at nd.edu

      2004

    13. Dr. Fengyan Li (李凤艳) , Ph.D. 2004. Thesis title: On locally divergence-free discontinuous Galerkin methods. First job after Ph.D.: post-doc at University of South Carolina. Currently at: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Professor. E-mail: lif at rpi.edu

      2005

    14. Dr. Shanqin Chen (陈珊琴) , Ph.D. 2005. Thesis title: The heterogeneous multi-scale method based on the discontinuous Galerkin and finite volume schemes. First job after Ph.D.: post-doc at UC Irvine. Currently at: Indiana University South Bend, Professor. E-mail: chen39 at iusb.edu
    15. Dr. Zhengfu Xu (徐正富) , Ph.D. 2005. Thesis title: Anti-diffusive flux corrections for high order finite difference WENO schemes. First job after Ph.D.: post-doc at Penn State University. Currently at: Michigan Technological University, Professor. E-mail: zhengfux at mtu.edu
    16. Dr. Yan Xu (徐岩) , Ph.D. 2005 (University of Science and Technology of China). Thesis title: Local discontinuous Galerkin methods for nonlinear wave equations. First job after Ph.D.: post-doc at University of Twente, the Netherlands. Currently at: University of Science and Technology of China, Professor. E-mail: yxu at ustc.edu.cn

      2006

    17. Dr. Ching-Shan Chou (仇竟珊) , Ph.D. 2006. Thesis title: High order residual distribution conservative finite difference WENO schemes for steady state problems on non-smooth meshes. First job after Ph.D.: post-doc at UC Irvine. Currently at: Ohio State University, Professor. E-mail: chou at math.osu.edu
    18. Dr. Yulong Xing (邢雨龙) , Ph.D. 2006. Thesis title: High order well-balanced numerical schemes for hyperbolic systems with source term. First job after Ph.D.: post-doc at Courant Institute, NYU. Currently at: Ohio State University, Professor. E-mail: xing.205 at osu.edu
    19. Dr. Ling Yuan (袁凌) , Ph.D. 2006. Thesis title: Discontinuous Galerkin method based on non-polynomial approximation spaces. First job after Ph.D.: post-doc at University of Pennsylvania. Currently at: Constellation Energy. E-mail: ling.yuan at constellation.com

      2007

    20. Dr. Yingda Cheng (程颖达) , Ph.D. 2007. Thesis title: Discontinuous Galerkin methods for Hamilton-Jacobi equations and equations with higher order derivatives. First job after Ph.D.: post-doc at University of Texas at Austin. Currently at: Michigan State University, Professor. E-mail: ycheng at msu.edu
    21. Dr. Jingmei Qiu (邱竞梅) , Ph.D. 2007. Thesis title: High order schemes: convergence for hyperbolic conservation laws and applications in computational cosmology. First job after Ph.D.: post-doc at Michigan State University. Currently at: University of Delaware, Professor. E-mail: jingqiu at udel.edu
    22. Dr. Yadong Lu (鲁亞东) , Ph.D. 2007 (University of Science and Technology of China, jointly supervised with Professor Mengping Zhang). Thesis title: Explicit construction of entropy solutions for the LWR traffic flow model. First job after Ph.D.: Huawei company. Currently at: . E-mail: luyd at mail.ustc.edu.cn
    23. Dr. Jun Shen (沈俊) , Ph.D. 2007 (University of Science and Technology of China, jointly supervised with Professor Mengping Zhang). Thesis title: High resolution high order schemes for a hierarchical size-structured model. First job after Ph.D.: Huawei company. Currently at: . E-mail: jshen3 at mail.ustc.edu.cn

      2008

    24. Dr. Wei Wang (王为) , Ph.D. 2008. Thesis title: Multiscale discontinuous Galerkin methods and applications. First job after Ph.D.: post-doc at Stanford University. Currently at: Florida International University, Associate Professor. E-mail: weiwang1 at fiu.edu
    25. Dr. Ling Huang (黄玲) , Ph.D. 2008 (University of Science and Technology of China, jointly supervised with Professor Mengping Zhang). Thesis title: WENO scheme and fast sweeping method and applications in the pedestrian flows. First job after Ph.D.: . Currently at: . E-mail: huangl0 at mail.ustc.edu.cn
    26. Dr. Yinhua Xia (夏银华) , Ph.D. 2008 (University of Science and Technology of China). Thesis title: Discontinuous Galerkin methods and time discretization methods. First job after Ph.D.: post-doc at Brown University. Currently at: University of Science and Technology of China, Associate Professor. E-mail: yhxia at ustc.edu.cn

      2010

    27. Dr. Ishani Roy , Ph.D. 2010. Thesis title: High order WENO scheme for computational cosmology. First job after Ph.D.: post-doc at Oxford University. Currently at: Serein, India, Founder. E-mail: ishani at sereininc.in. Article about mentors.
    28. Dr. Wei Liu (刘伟) , Ph.D. 2010 (Institute of Computational Mathematics and Scientific / Engineering Computing, Chinese Academy of Sciences, jointly supervised with Professor Li Yuan). Thesis title: Lax-Wendroff type time discretization for the high order Lagrangian schemes and a conservative modification to the ghost fluid method for multimaterial flows. First job after Ph.D.: post-doc at Institute of Computational Mathematics and Scientific / Engineering Computing, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Currently at: Beijing Internet Based Engineering Co., Ltd, Senior R&D Engineer. E-mail: lwsyl at mail.ustc.edu.cn

      2011

    29. Dr. Xiangxiong Zhang (张翔雄) , Ph.D. 2011. Thesis title: Maximum-principle-satisfying and positivity-preserving high order schemes for conservation laws. First job after Ph.D.: post-doc at MIT. Currently at: Purdue University, Associate Professor. E-mail: zhan1966 at purdue.edu
    30. Dr. Rui Zhang (张瑞) , Ph.D. 2011 (University of Science and Technology of China, jointly supervised with Professor Mengping Zhang). Thesis title: Finite volume WENO schemes and applications. First job after Ph.D.: lecturer at University of Science and Technology of China. Currently at: University of Science and Technology of China, Lecturer. E-mail: rui at ustc.edu.cn

      2012

    31. Dr. Sirui Tan (谭思睿) , Ph.D. 2012. Thesis title: Boundary condition and applications of WENO finite difference schemes for hyperbolic problems. First job after Ph.D.: post-doc at Los Alamos National Lab. Currently at: ExxonMobil, Quantitative Analyst. E-mail: sirui_tan at alumni.brown.edu
    32. Dr. Xinghui Zhong (仲杏慧) , Ph.D. 2012. Thesis title: Wave resolution properties and weighted essentially non-oscillatory limiter for discontinuous Galerkin methods. First job after Ph.D.: post-doc at Michigan State University. Currently at: Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, Professor. E-mail: zhongxh at zju.edu.cn
    33. Dr. Yuanyuan Liu (刘元元) , Ph.D. 2012 (University of Science and Technology of China, jointly supervised with Professor Mengping Zhang). Thesis title: WENO methods and the applications in convection diffusion equations. First job after Ph.D.: post-doc at Institute of Computational Mathematics and Scientific / Engineering Computing, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Currently at: Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics (IAPCM), Beijing, China, Associate Professor. E-mail: liu_yuanyuan at iapcm.ac.cn
    34. Dr. Tao Xiong (熊涛) , Ph.D. 2012 (University of Science and Technology of China, jointly supervised with Professor Mengping Zhang). Thesis title: High resolution schemes for solving Hamilton-Jacobi equations and nonconservative hyperbolic systems. First job after Ph.D.: post-doc at University of Houston. Currently at: Xiamen University, Professor. E-mail: txiong at xmu.edu.cn

      2013

    35. Dr. Yang Yang (杨扬) , Ph.D. 2013. Thesis title: High order numerical methods for hyperbolic equations: superconvergence, and applications to delta-singularities and cosmology. First job after Ph.D.: assistant professor at Michigan Technological University. Currently at: Michigan Technological University, Professor. E-mail: yyang7 at mtu.edu
    36. Dr. Yifan Zhang (张逸凡) , Ph.D. 2013. Thesis title: Discontinuous Galerkin methods for convection diffusion equations: positivity preserving and multi-scale resolution. First job after Ph.D.: research analyst at Acadian Asset Management LLC. Currently at: Millennium Management, Statistical Arbitrage. E-mail: yifan_zhang at alumni.brown.edu

      2014

    37. Dr. Zheng Chen (陈争) , Ph.D. 2014. Thesis title: Recovering exponential accuracy in spectral methods involving piecewise smooth functions with unbounded derivative singularities. First job after Ph.D.: post-doc at Iowa State University. Currently at: University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Assistant Professor. E-mail: zchen2 at umassd.edu

      2015

    38. Dr. Lei Wu (吴磊) , Ph.D. 2015 (jointly supervised with Professor Yan Guo). Thesis title: From kinetic theory to fluid mechanics: viscous surface wave and hydrodynamic limit. First job after Ph.D.: post-doc at Carnegie-Mellon University. Currently at: Lehigh University, Assistant Professor. E-mail: lew218 at lehigh.edu
    39. Dr. Jie Du (杜洁) , Ph.D. 2015 (University of Science and Technology of China, jointly supervised with Professor Mengping Zhang). Thesis title: CPR method with limiters and study on traffic flow models. First job after Ph.D.: post-doc at Chinese University of Hong Kong. Currently at: East China Normal University, Shanghai, China, Associate Professor. E-mail: jdu at math.ecnu.edu.cn
    40. Dr. Yan Jiang (蔣琰) , Ph.D. 2015 (University of Science and Technology of China, jointly supervised with Professor Mengping Zhang). Thesis title: An alternative formulation of finite difference WENO scheme and numerical simulation of random walk model. First job after Ph.D.: post-doc at Michigan State University. Currently at: University of Science and Technology of China, Research Professor. E-mail: jiangy at ustc.edu.cn

      2016

    41. Dr. Jianfang Lu (卢键方) , Ph.D. 2016 (University of Science and Technology of China, jointly supervised with Professor Mengping Zhang). Thesis title: ILW procedure for convection-diffusion equations and RKDG method for correlated random walk model. First job after Ph.D.: post-doc at Beijing Computational Science Research Center. Currently at: South China Research Center for Applied Mathematics and Interdisciplinary Studies, Research Fellow. E-mail: jflu at m.scnu.edu.cn

      2017

    42. Dr. Tong Qin (秦通) , Ph.D. 2017. Thesis title: Positivity-preserving high order discontinuous Galerkin methods: implicit time stepping and applications to relativistic hydrodynamics. First job after Ph.D.: post-doc at Ohio State University. Currently at: Amazon, Applied Scientist. E-mail: tong_qin at alumni.brown.edu
    43. Dr. Bingyu Zhao (赵冰玉) , Ph.D. 2017. Thesis title: Nonlinear limiters for discontinuous Galerkin method. First job after Ph.D.: Currently at: E-mail: bingyu_zhao at alumni.brown.edu
    44. Dr. Tingting Li (李婷婷) , Ph.D. 2017 (University of Science and Technology of China, jointly supervised with Professor Mengping Zhang). Thesis title: Stability analysis of the inverse Lax-Wendroff boundary treatment for high order finite difference schemes. First job after Ph.D.: Henan University, China, Lecturer. Currently at: Henan University. E-mail: ltt1120 at mail.ustc.edu.cn
    45. Dr. Qingyuan Liu (刘庆源) , Ph.D. 2017 (University of Science and Technology of China, jointly supervised with Professor Mengping Zhang). Thesis title: Discontinuous Galerkin methods for weakly coupled hyperbolic multi-domain problems. First job after Ph.D.: post-doc at University of Science and Technology of China. Currently at: Anhui University of Architecture, China, Lecturer. E-mail: qyliu at mail.ustc.edu.cn

      2018

    46. Dr. Will E. Pazner , Ph.D. 2018. Thesis title: Efficient solvers and preconditioners for the implicit time integration of discontinuous Galerkin methods. First job after Ph.D.: Fernbach fellowship, Lawrence Livermore National Lab. Currently at: Portland State University, Assistant Professor. E-mail: pazner at pdx.edu
    47. Dr. Cengke Shi (石曾轲) , Ph.D. 2018. Thesis title: Numerical methods for hyperbolic equations: Generalized definition of local conservation and discontinuous Galerkin methods for Maxwell's equations in Drude metamaterials. First job after Ph.D.: Virtu Financial, Quantitative Strategist. Currently at: Virtu Financial, Quantitative Strategist. E-mail: cengke_shi at alumni.brown.edu
    48. Dr. Zheng Sun (孙铮) , Ph.D. 2018. Thesis title: Discontinuous Galerkin methods: Stability of time discretizations and applications to gradient flows. First job after Ph.D.: Ohio State University, Visiting Assistant Professor. Currently at: University of Alabama, Assistant Professor. E-mail: zsun30 at ua.edu

      2019

    49. Dr. Tianheng Chen (陈天珩) , Ph.D. 2019. Thesis title: High order numerical methods: Entropy stability and deterministic solvers of stochastic PDEs. First job after Ph.D.: Google, Software Engineer. Currently at: Google, Software Engineer. E-mail: tianheng_chen at alumni.brown.edu
    50. Dr. Kunrui Wang (王坤睿) , Ph.D. 2019 (jointly supervised with Professor Hongjie Dong). Thesis title: The incompressible Navier-Stokes equations: two regularity criteria. First job after Ph.D.: Google, Software Engineer. Currently at: Google, Software Engineer. E-mail: kunrui_wang at alumni.brown.edu

      2020

    51. Dr. Yong Liu (刘勇) , Ph.D. 2020 (University of Science and Technology of China, jointly supervised with Professor Mengping Zhang). Thesis title: The study of discontinuous Galerkin methods and reduced basis methods for stochastic partial differential equations. First job after Ph.D.: Institute of Computational Mathematics and Scientific / Engineering Computing, Chinese Academy of Sciences, postdoc. Currently at: Institute of Computational Mathematics and Scientific / Engineering Computing, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Associate Professor. E-mail: yongliu at lsec.cc.ac.cn
    52. Dr. Qi Tao (陶琪) , Ph.D. 2020 (University of Science and Technology of China, jointly supervised with Professor Yan Xu). Thesis title: Error estimates and superconvergence analysis of discontinuous Galerkin methods. First job after Ph.D.: Beijing Computational Science Research Center, postdoc. Currently at: Beijing University of Technology, Associate Professor. E-mail: taoqi at csrc.ac.cn

      2021

    53. Dr. Liangze Yang (杨良泽) , Ph.D. 2021 (University of Science and Technology of China, jointly supervised with Professor Mengping Zhang). Thesis title: Modeling and simulation of some traffic problems, and related theory analysis. First job after Ph.D.: Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, postdoc. Currently at: Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, postdoc. E-mail: lzeyang at mail.ustc.edu.cn

      2022

    54. Dr. Xinyue Yu (俞心玥) , Ph.D. 2022. Thesis title: Discontinuous Galerkin methods for wave equations: the MLP estimator for the TVB constant in limiters and local DG methods for a carpet cloak model. First job after Ph.D.: TSMC, Principal Engineer. Currently at: TSMC, Principal Engineer. E-mail: xinyue_yu at alumni.brown.edu

      2023

    55. Dr. Ziyao Xu (徐梓尧) , Ph.D. 2023. Thesis title: High order numerical methods for hyperbolic equations: Bound-preserving and Riemann invariant based system solvers. First job after Ph.D.: University of Notre Dame, postdoc. Currently at: University of Notre Dame, postdoc. E-mail: ziyao_xu1 at alumni.brown.edu

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