Fengyan Li
Professor
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
110 8th Street
Troy NY 12180
Office: Amos Eaton 332
Phone: +1 (518) 276-3201
Fax: +1 (518) 276-4824
Email: lif at rpi dot edu
Curriculum Vitae pdf
Education and Research
Editorship, Honors, and Awards
- Education
- Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, Brown University, 2004
- M.Sc. in Computational Mathematics, Peking University, 2000
- B.Sc. in Computational Mathematics, Peking University, 1997
- Research Interests: Publications
General interests: Design, analysis, implementation and applications of accurate, robust and efficient numerical methods for PDEs
- Finite element methods, discontinuous Galerkin methods, WENO methods, central schemes
- Structure-preserving high order methods: divergence-free, well-balanced, energy stable/conservative, positivity preserving, asymptotic preserving
- Numerical methods for Ideal MHD equations, Hamilton-Jacobi equations, Maxwell's equations in linear or nonlinear media, shallow water models, kinetic models (discrete-velocity models, BGK model, radiative transfer equation, (relativistic) Vlasov-Maxwell equations), wave equations, eigenvalue problems
- Research Group
- PhD Student: Zhichao Peng (Fall 2015 - present)
- Visiting Graduate Student: Maohui Lv (Fall 2018 - Fall 2019, Chongqing University, China)
- Former members
- If you are interested in exploring the possibility to work with me, you are welcome to contact me.
Teaching (Courses Previously Taught)
- Editorial Boards
- SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis (2019 - present)
- CSIAM Transaction on Applied Mathematics (2019 - present)
- SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing (2014 - present)
- Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (English Edition) (2014 - present)
- Plenary / Conference Invited Speaker
- International Conference on Spectral and High Order Methods (ICOSAHOM), Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, July 9-13, 2018
- XVI International Conference on Hyperbolic Problems: Theory, Numerics, Applications, Aachen, Germany, August 1-5, 2016
- The Annual Meeting of Computational Mathematics in China, Guangzhou, China, September 19-22, 2015
- Honors and Awards
- RAMP-Up Career Campaign Award, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2010
- NSF CAREER Award, 2009
- Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, 2008
- Stella Dafermos Award, Brown University, 2004; Ostrach Fellowship, Brown University, 2003 - 2004
Other links
- Fall 2019 - Spring 2020: Sabbatical leave
- Spring 2019
- MATH/CSCI 4800-02: Numerical Computing
- Fall 2018
- MATH 4200-01: Mathematical Analysis I
- MATH 6820-01: Numerical Solutions of ODEs
- Spring 2018
- MATH 6860-01: Finite Element Analysis
- Fall 2017
- MATH 4200-01: Mathematical Analysis I
- MATH 6220-01: Applied Functional Analysis
- WINASc: a research network for Women in Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing
- Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM)