Wenhua Gao

UCLA Mathematics Department Box 951555 Los Angeles, CA 90095-1555 OfficOffice: IPAM 1129D  Email: wenhuagao@math.ucla.edu

 

 

Education

• Ph.D. candidate in Applied Mathematics, UCLA Math Department, Los Angeles, USA 2006-present.
• M.S. in Statistics, School of Mathematical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China 2004-2006.

• B.S. in Statistics, School of Mathematical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China, 1999-2003.

• B.S. in Economics, China Center for Economic Research, Peking University, Beijing, China, 1999-2003.

Research Interests

• Numerical partial differential equations.
• Image processing and shape analysis.

• Application of Monte Carlo simulation methods.

• Probability Theory and Stochastic Calculus.

Publications

• A Narrowband Approach for Approximating the Laplace-Beltrami Spectrum of 3D shapes.

       Wenhua Gao, Rongjie Lai, Yonggang Shi, Ivo Dinov, Auth Toga: lCNAAM 2010 in Greece.

• Feature Preserving Segmentation via Level Set Representation.

         Wenhua Gao, Andrea Bertozzi: Submitted to SIAM Journal on Image Proccesing.

Thesis and Defense Slides

• The Laplace-Beltrami Operator in a Level Set Framework and Its Applications,   PhD Thesis,   Slides.

        

Teaching

• Mathematics of Finance 174: Winter 2011.
• Analysis 131A: Fall 2010.
• Office Hours: IPAM 1129D, 2-4 pm Tuesday.
• Probability 170A: Spring 2008, Fall 2009.
• Probability 170B: Winter 2009, Winter 2010.
• Intro to Stochastic Calculus and Derivatives: Winter 2010, Winter 2011.