Qiang Du (), the Fu Foundation Professor of

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, is a Chinese

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and

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. Prior to moving to Columbia, he was the Verne M. Willaman Professor of

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affiliated with the Pennsylvania State University Department of Mathematics and Materials Sciences.

Education

After completing his BS degree at

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in 1983, Du earned his

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degree from

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in 1988. His thesis was written under the direction of Max D. Gunzburger.

Selected publications

His two most often cited papers are * *

Students and post-doctorates

As of June 2018, 17 students had completed their Ph.D. degrees under Du's supervision. He had also supported 10 post-doctorates.

Recognition

Du was elected a fellow of the

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in 2013 for "contributions to applied and computational mathematics with applications in material science, computational geometry, and biology." In 2017 he was elected as a Fellow of the

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. He was elected as a Fellow of the

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in the 2020 Class, for "contributions to applied and computational mathematics with applications in materials science, computational geometry, and biology".

References

External links

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Qiang Du's home page
at Columbia University
Qiang Du's home page
at Penn State {{DEFAULTSORT:Du, Qiang Chinese mathematicians 20th-century American mathematicians 21st-century American mathematicians Numerical analysts Living people Pennsylvania State University faculty Chinese emigrants to the United States Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellows of the American Mathematical Society Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Columbia University faculty Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Science faculty Year of birth missing (living people)