Appointments
- Assistant Professor, School of Computational Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2024-present.
- Guest Scientist, Applied Math and Plasma Physics Group (T-5), Los Alamos National Laboratory, 2024-present.
- Staff Scientist (2 and 3), Applied Math and Plasma Physics Group (T-5), Los Alamos National Laboratory 2021–2024.
- Postdoc, Applied Math and Plasma Physics Group (T-5), Los Alamos National Laboratory 2018–2021.
- Mentors: Xianzhu Tang and Luis Chacon
- Eliza Ricketts Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Mathematical Sciences,
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 2015–2018.
- Mentor: Jeff Banks
Education
- Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, Michigan State University, 2015.
- Advisor: Andrew Christlieb
- B.S. in Mathematics & Applied Mathematics, Zhejiang University 2010.
Selected Grants
At GT
- An open-source Newton-based free-boundary Grad-Shafranov solver, GT OSPO, Role: PI, Spring 25.
- Fundamental understandings of multi-color/multi-modal radiography and methods for data assimilation and design optimization, DOE Inter-lab LDRD Program, Role: Institutional PI (sub-contract is being processed), FY25-FY27.
- Center for Hierarchical and Robust Modeling of Non-Equilibrium Transport (CHaRMNET), DOE-SC ASCR, Role: Co-I at LANL and Institutional PI at GT, FY23-FY27
At LANL
- A stable partitioned multiscale solver for ocean surface and floating structure interaction, LANL LDRD CSES Program, Role: PI*, FY25-FY27.
*The PI role has been transfered to Dan Serino. - Towards the understanding of polarization mystery of astrophysical X-ray sources with MHD-PIC simulations powered by machine learning, LANL LDRD CSES Program, Role: Co-I, FY24-FY27.
- DeepFusion accelerator for fusion energy sciences in disruption mitigation, DOE-SC FES, Role: Co-I (unfunded starting from FY25), FY24-FY26.
- Accurate discretizations and compatible linear solvers for extreme anisotropies in fusion, LANL LDRD, Role: Co-I (unfunded starting from FY25), FY24-FY26.
- Inertial neural surrogates for stable dynamical prediction, DOE-SC ASCR, Role: Lead PI, FY22-FY25.
- Preventing beam degradation in the LANSCE linear accelerator, LANL LDRD, Role: Co-I, FY23.
- Data compression techniques for particle-based simulations, LANL LDRD ISTI Program, Role: PI, FY22.
- Advancing the mission: sparse view dynamic tomographic reconstruction for 3D code validation, LANL LDRD DR, Role: Senior Personnel, FY22-FY24.
- DeepFusion accelerator for fusion energy sciences in disruption mitigation, DOE-SC SciDAC, Role: Senior Personnel, FY22-FY23.
- Theory and modeling of magnetic fusion plasma, DOE-SC FES, Role: Senior Personnel, FY20-FY24.
- Tokamak Disruption Simulation, DOE-SC SciDAC, Role: Senior Personnel, FY19-FY23.
Computing Allocations
- ERCAP at the DOE NERSC center (ASCR MMICC), Role: PI proxy, 17K CPU and GPU node hours/year, 2024-present.
- ERCAP at the DOE NERSC center (FES AI/ML), Role: PI proxy, 29K CPU and GPU node hours/year, 2024-presnet.
- ERCAP at the DOE NERSC center (FES theory), Role: PI proxy, 20K CPU and GPU node hours/year, 2022-presnet.
- ERCAP at the DOE NERSC center (ASCR SciML), Role: PI, 6M machine hours/year, 2022-2024.
- LANL Insitutional Computing, Role: PI, 7.5M machine hours/year, 2021-2024.
Proposal Review
- DOE SBIR/STTR Program (ASCR)
- DOE SBIR/STTR Program (FES)
- LANL Instituional Computing
Journal and Conference Review
Journal of Computational Physics, SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Journal of Scientific Computing, Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, MathSciNet, Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation, Computers & Fluids, Computers & Mathematics with Applications, Physical Review Accelerators and Beams, Physical Review E, Physical Review Fluids, Physical Review Materials, Nuclear Fusion, Classical and Quantum Gravity, Applied Mathematics and Computation, Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, Electronic Transactions on Numerical Analysis, Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Journal of Computational Mathematics and Data Science, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, Machine Learning: Science and Technology, Communications in Computational Physics, Communications in Mathematical Research, Mediterranean Journal of Mathematics, NeurIPS workshops, SPE Journal, PLOS One, and more.
Workshop Organization
- 5th MFEM Community Workshop, Role: member of the organizing committee, Portland, September 2025.
- Algorithms for Multiphysics Models in the Post-Moore’s Law Era, Role: member of the scientific organizing committee, LANL, June 2nd-13th 2025.
- Scale Bridging in Numerical Simulations, Role: member of the scientific organizing committee, LANL, April 22nd-26th 2024.