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
  • Divergence-free and positivity-preserving techniques in high order methods for magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations
  • Algorithms for kinetic problems: asymptotically preserving methods, energy-conserving 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 model, (relativistic) Vlasov-Maxwell equations)
• Publications
• Research Group
  • Postdoc: Dr. Liwei Xu (Fall 2009- Spring 2012. First job: assistant professor (1000 Youth Plan) at Chongqing University, China)
  • PhD Students:
    Sergey Yakovlev (Summer 2008-Summer 2011. First job: postdoc at Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute, University of Utah)
    He Yang (Fall 2010-Summer 2014. First job: postdoc at Radiological Sciences Laboratory, Stanford University)
    Matthew Reyna (Summer 2011-Summer 2014. First job: postdoc in Computer Science Department, Brown University)
    
  • Visiting Students:
    Yue Cheng (Spring 2011, from Nanjing University, China, Master)
    Maojun Li (August 2011-August 2012, from Chongqing University, Doctoral. First job: postdoc at Bejing Computational Science Research Center, Beijing, China)
    Zhanjing Tao (January-July 2014, from Xiamen University, China, Doctoral)
    Pei Fu (February-July 2015, from University of Science and Technology of China, Doctoral)
    

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 2015 (Office hours: 4:00pm-5:00pm Tuesdays, 3:00pm-4:00pm Thursdays)
  • MATH/CSCI 6820-01: Numerical Solution of Ordinary Differential Equations
    
• Fall 2014
  • MATH 6890-01: Topics in Discontinuous Galerkin Methods
    
• Spring 2014
  • 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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