• 2012–2015, PhD in Applied and Computational Mathematics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom (Supervisor: Professor Benedict Leimkuhler http://kac.maths.ed.ac.uk/~bl/, FRSE)

1. B. Leimkuhler and X. Shang. On the numerical treatment of dissipative particle dynamics and related systems. Journal of Computational Physics, 280, 72–95, (2015) DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2014.09.008
2. B. Leimkuhler and X. Shang. Adaptive thermostats for noisy gradient systems. SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, 38, A712–A736, (2016) DOI: 10.1137/15M102318X
3. B. Leimkuhler and X. Shang. Covariance-controlled adaptive Langevin thermostat for large-scale Bayesian sampling. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) 28, 37–45, (2015)
4. B. Leimkuhler and X. Shang. Pairwise adaptive thermostats for improved accuracy and stability in dissipative particle dynamics. Journal of Computational Physics, 324, 174–193, (2016) DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2016.07.034

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