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 and implementation of accurate, robust and efficient numerical methods for differential equations
  
  • Discontinuous Galerkin methods and central discontinuous Galerkin methods
  • Divergence-free and positivity-preserving techniques in high order methods for magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations
  • Asymptotically preserving methods for kinetic problems; Physically relevant high order methods for Vlasov-Maxwell equations
  • Efficient methods: high order fast sweeping methods, hybridization for eigenvalue problems
  • High order methods for time dependent and time harmonic Maxwell equations, Hamilton-Jacobi equations, eigenvalue problems, nonlinear shallow water waves
• Publications
• Research Group
  • PhD Graduate Students:
    He Yang (Fall 2010-present)
    Matthew Reyna (Summer 2011-present)
    
  • Previous Members
    • Postdoc: Dr. Liwei Xu (Fall 2009- Spring 2012, currently an assistant professor at Chongqing University, China)
    • PhD Student: Sergey Yakovlev (Summer 2008-Summer 2011, currently 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. Currently a postdoc at Bejing Computational Science Research Center, Beijing, China)
      

Honors and Awards  

• RAMP-Up Career Campaign Award, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2010
• NSF CAREER Award, DMS-0847241, 2009
• Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, 2008
• Stella Dafermos Award, Brown University, 2004

Recent and Upcoming Events

• Issues in Solving the Boltzmann Equation for Aerospace Applications, ICERM, Providence, RI, June 3 -7 2013
• 3rd New York Conference on Applied Mathematics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, October 13, 2012

Teaching

• MATH/CSCI 6800-01: Computational Linear Algebra, Fall 2013
  

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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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