Fengyan Li Associate Professor Ph.D. Brown University Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing Curriculum Vitae pdf

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Research  

• Research Interests
  General interests: Design, analysis, implementation and applications of accurate, robust and efficient numerical methods for differential equations
  
  • Finite element methods, (central) discontinuous Galerkin methods, WENO methods, time discretizations
  • Divergence-free and positivity-preserving techniques in high order methods for magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations
  • Algorithms for kinetic problems: asymptotically preserving methods, physically relevant methods
  • Efficient methods: fast sweeping methods, hybridization for eigenvalue problems
  • Time dependent and time harmonic Maxwell equations, Hamilton-Jacobi equations, MHD equations, eigenvalue problems, shallow water models, kinetic models (discrete-velocity models, one-group transport equation, BGK equation, (relativistic) Vlasov-Maxwell equations)
• Publications
• Research Group
  • Doctoral Students:
    He Yang (Fall 2010-present)
    Matthew Reyna (Summer 2011-present)
    Zhanjing Tao (January 2014-present, visiting student from Xiamen University)
    
  • Previous Members
    • Postdoc: Dr. Liwei Xu (Fall 2009- Spring 2012. First job: assistant professor (1000 Youth Plan) at Chongqing University, China)
    • PhD Student: Sergey Yakovlev (Summer 2008-Summer 2011. First job: a postdoctoral fellow at U of Utah)
    • Visiting Students:
      Yue Cheng (Spring 2011, from Nanjing University, Master)
      Maojun Li (August 2011- August 2012, from Chongqing University, Doctoral. First job: postdoc at Bejing Computational Science Research Center, Beijing, China)
      

Editorship, Honors, and Awards  

• Associate Editor, SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, January 1, 2014 - present
• 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

Teaching

• Spring 2014 (Office hours: Tuesday and Thursday 1:00pm-2:00pm)
  • MATH 6860-01: Finite Element Analysis
    
  • MATH 1910-01: Art & Science of Mathematics II
    
• Fall 2013
  • MATH/CSCI 6800-01: Computational Linear Algebra
    
  • MATH 1900-01: Art & Science of Mathematics I
    

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Contact Information

Department of Mathematical Sciences
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
110 8th Street, Amos Eaton 332
Troy, NY 12180

Telephone: (518) 276 - 3201
Fax: (518) 276 - 4824
Email: lif at rpi dot edu

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