To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real feeling as to the beauty, the deepest beauty, of nature... If you want to learn about nature, to appreciate nature, it is necessary to understand the language that she speaks in. Richard Feynman
EDUCATION:
August, 1985--July, 1988,
University of
Alberta,
Canada, Ph.D
Nov., 1984--Aug., 1985, Mathematical
Institute,
University of Oxford, D. Phil. candidate.
Aug., 1983--July, 1984, Applied Mathematical
Institute of Academic Sinica, P.R.C.
Aug., 1980--Nov., 1984, University of Science
and Technology of China, P.R.C.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Arizona State University,
July, 1997--Present,
Professor
Arizona State University,
June, 2002--May, 2005, Associate chair
for
graduate studies
National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, May,
1999--June, 1999, Visiting Professor
University of Shizuoka, Japan, July,
1995--Aug.,
1995, Visiting Professor
University of Urbino, Italy, June, 1995--July,
1995, Visiting Professor
University of Arizona, May, 1994--Dec., 1994,
Visiting Professor
Arizona State University, July, 1992--June,
1997, Associate Professor
Arizona State University, Aug., 1988--June,
1992, Assistant Professor
University of Alberta, 1986--1988, Izaak
Walton
Killam Scholar
University of Alberta, 1985--1986, Teaching
Assistant
University of Oxford, 1984--1985, Graduate
Student and Research Assistant.
EDITORSHIP:
1. Mathematical Biosciences
and Engineering, Editor- in- Chief, 2003-.
2. Discrete
and Continuous Dynamical Systems,
B, associate editor, 2000-
3. Journal of
Biological Systems, associate editor, 2004-.
4. Journal of Biomathematics, associate
editor,
1997-
5. Proceedings of International Conference
on Dynamical Systems and Differential Equations,
(Springfield, 1996),
associate
editor.
6. Bulletin of Biomathematics, associate
editor, 1995-97.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:
Society of Mathematical
Biology, 2000-
The New York Academy of Science, 1993-1994.
American Mathematics Society, 85-99.
Canadian Mathematical Society, 86-88.
Canadian Applied Mathematical Society, 86-88,
92-94.
American Mathematical Association, 87-88.
Society for Industrial and Applied
Mathematics,
87-88, 91.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
Presented numerous invited
lectures at
international
and national conferences.
Organized numerous International Conferences,
special
sessions on Mathematical Biology.
Organized minisymposiums in international
conferences(ICIAM-91, Washington, D.C.
Pacific Dynamical conference, Maui, 2000,
SIAM Snowbird, 2001),
at ASU(Minisymposium on Nonlinear Analysis
and Biological Modeling, Oct. 13-14, 1992,
Minisymposium on Math. Biol. and Delay
Equations,
May 27, 1996 at ASU).
Refereeing
NSF proposals and
research
proposals
for other nations.
Reviewing for Mathematical
Reviews and
Zentralblatt MATH..
Refereed papers for over three
dozens journals.