Recent News and Events

  • June 4 - 7, 2025, I served as a faculty mentor at the SIAM Graduate Student Mathematical Modeling Camp (GSMMC) at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.
  • March 8 - 9, 2025, Pejman Sanaei, Hassan Masoud, and I co-organized a minisymposium titled “Mathematical modeling and simulation in fluid dynamics” at the Spring 2025 SE Sectional Meeting at Clemson University, SC. I also gave a talk on “Optimal control of thin film droplet dynamics”.
  • March 3, 2025, I gave a talk at the Applied and Computational Math Seminar at Georgia Tech. Thanks to Dr. Wenjing Liao for the invitation!
  • February 24 - 28, 2025, I gave a talk in a minisymposium “Asymptotic models in fluid dynamics and pattern formation” at the Conference on Mathematics of Wave Phenomena in Karlsruhe. Thanks to Drs. Christina Lienstromberg, Wolf-Patrick Düll and Gabriele Brüll for the invitation!
  • January 13, 2025, I gave a talk at the Operations Research Program Seminar Series at NC State. Thanks to Dr. Maria Mayorga for the invitation!
  • November 14, 2024, I gave a talk at the CMB seminar at NCSU Physics. Thanks to Dr. Karen Daniels for the invitation!
  • October 27, 2024, I gave a talk at the Triangle Computational and Applied Mathematics Symposium (TriCAMS).
  • October 21 - 25, 2024, Dr. Alexey Miroshnikov and I co-organized a minisymposium “Mathematics of Explainable AI with Applications to Finance and Medicine” at the SIAM Conference on Mathematics of Data Science (MDS24) in Atlanta.
  • August 26 - 30, 2024, I gave a talk titled “Mean field control of thin film droplet dynamics” in the workshop on liquid thin films at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in Leipzig (MPI-MiS), co-organized by Drs. Lorenzo Giacomelli, Hans Knüpfer, Felix Otto, and Christian Seis.
  • July 21 - 26, 2024: I gave a talk in a minisymposium titled “Recent Advances on Interface Dynamics Modeling and Simulation” at the 16th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM) in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Thanks to Drs. Shixin Xu and Huaxiong Huang for the invitation!
  • May 28 - 31, 2024: I gave a talk in a minisymposium titled “Data-Driven Methods for Analysis and Understanding of Images” at the SIAM Conference on Imaging Science (IS24) in Atlanta, Georgia. Thanks to Drs. Elizabeth Newman, Stephanie Gamble, and Andreas Mang for the invitation!
  • April 21 - 26, 2024: I attended a week-long conference on “The Cahn-Hilliard equation - recent advances and new challenges” at the European Centre for Geological Education in Chęciny, Poland, co-organized by Drs. Jakub Skrzeczkowski, Jose Carrillo, Piotr Gwiazda, and Zuzanna Szymańska.
  • March 23 - 24, 2024: I gave a talk in a special session on “Mathematical Modeling and Simulation in Fluid Dynamics” at the AMS Sectional Meeting at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida. Thanks to Dr. Pejman Sanaei for the invitation!
  • March 23 - 24, 2024: I gave a talk in a special session on “Numerical Methods and Deep Learning for PDEs” at the AMS Sectional Meeting at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida. Thanks to Drs. Chunmei Wang and Haizhao Yang for the invitation!

Upcoming Schedule

  • May 27 - July 30, 2025: I will serve as a faculty mentor in the NC State DRUMS REU summer program.
  • July 7 - 18, 2025: I will attend the workshop “Slow Viscous Flows with Interfaces” research program at MATRIX, Creswick, Australia.
  • August 25 - 27, 2025: I will attend the conference “Nonlinear Phenomena in Complex Systems” at California NanoSystems Institute, UCLA.
  • September 15, 2025: I will give a talk in the CCAM seminar at Purdue University. Thanks Dr. Yuan Gao for the invitation!