Curriculum Vitae

Ph.D. in Mathematics, Princeton Univ., 1991
M.A. in Mathematics, Princeton Univ., 1988
A.B. in Mathematics, Princeton Univ., 1987

Professor of Mathematics, UCLA, 2003-present
Director of Applied Mathematics, UCLA, 2005-present

Professor of Mathematics and Physics, Duke University, 1999-2004
Director, VIGRE program, Duke University 2000-2003
Director, Center for Nonlinear and Complex Systems, Duke Univ., 1999-2000
Associate Professor of Mathematics and Physics, Duke University 1998-9
Associate Professor of Mathematics, Duke University, 1995-1998
Maria Geoppert-Mayer Distinguished Scholar, Argonne National Laboratory, 1995-6
L.E. Dickson Instructor and NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Mathematics, University of Chicago, 1991-5

Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations,
Thin Films and Moving Contact Lines,
Fluid Dynamics,
Image Processing,
Swarming dynamics

ONR Graduate Fellowship 1987-91
Bell Labs GRPW Grant 1987
National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship 1991-4
Sloan Research Fellowship 1995
Maria Geoppert-Mayer Distinguished Scholar-Argonne National Lab. 1995-6
ONR Young Investigator Award 1996
Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers 1996

Click here for a list of publications and preprints with some hypertext links.

Click here for a links to my recent invited talks.

Board of Trustees, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, 2006-present
SIAM Council Member, 2006-present
Editorial Board SIAM J. Math. Analysis, 2005-present
Editorial Board, SIAM Review, 2004-present
Editorial Board, Multiscale Modeling and Simulation (SIAM Journal), 2005-present
Editorial Board, Interfaces and Free Boundaries, 2003-present
Edtorial Board, Applied Mathematics Research Express, 2003-present
Editorial Board, Nonlinearity, 2006-present

Liya Zhornitskaya Ph.D. 1999, Duke University (postdoc at Univ. Bonn and Univ. Utah 1999-2003)
Edward Welsh, Ph. D. 2003, Duke University, Currently Assistant Prof. with Tenure at Westfield State College, MA
John Greer, Ph. D. 2003, Duke University, NSF Postdoc, Courant Institute (2004-7), currently employed by the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, Washington, DC
Yao-Li Chuang, Ph. D. in Physics, 2006, Duke University, currently postdoc in Applied Mathematics at Univ. of California Irvine
Alan Gillette, Ph. D. 2006, UCLA, currently Director of Technical Operations, Human Concepts, Inc.
Hsiang-Wei Lu, Ph. D. 2007, UCLA Mechanical Engineering, co-advised with CJ Kim, current joint postdoc between MIT and Harvey Mudd.
Benjamin Cook, Ph. D. 2007, UCLA, currently employed by the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, Washington, DC
Julia Dobrosotskaya, Ph. D. student in Mathematics, UCLA
Yuan Huang, M.S. in Electrical Engineering, 2006, UCLA, currently Ph. D. student in EE at UCLA

Mark Bowen (2000-1), EPSRC postdoctoral fellow, Univ. of Nottingham UK, 2002-5
Maria D'Orsogna (2004-7), Assistant Professor tenure track, Cal State Northridge
Selim Esedoglu (2004), Assistant Professor, tenure track, Univ. of Michigan
Lou Kondic (1997-9), currently Associate Professor NJIT
Zhipu Jin (2006-7), Cisco Systems, San Jose, CA
Ning Ju (2002-2002), Assoc. Professor with tenure, Oklahoma State University
Daniel Marthaler (2002-4), currently with Northrop Grumman, San Deigo
Andreas Muench (postdoc 1998-9), currently Head of Research Group and Heisenberg Fellow, Humbolt University and the Weierstrass Institute in Berlin
Dejan Slepcev (2004-6), currently Assistant Professor, tenure track, Carnegie-Mellon University
Linda Smolka (2002), currently Assistant Professor tenure track, Bucknell
Jeanman Sur (2001-3), currently with Samsung, Korea
Chad Topaz (2002-6), Asst. Prof. Macalaster College, Minneapolis, MN