Ph. D. Mathematics, Michigan
State University,
1997
Experience:
2005-present
Assistant Professor, Arizona
State University
2004-2005
Assistant Professor, University of
Central Arkansas
2002-2004
Faculty Associate, Arizona
State University
1997-2004,
Software Engineer, Informative Graphics Corporation, Arizona
2001-2002
Adjunct Faculty, Glendale Community
College, Arizona
1992-1997
Teaching Assistant, Michigan State University
1988-1992
Lecturer, Ocean University
of China, China
Professional
Organizations:
American Mathematical Society
Society for Mathematical Biology
Invited
Talks and Presentations:
"Traveling waves for
delayed reaction-diffusion equations," The Second International
Conference on Mathematical Modeling and Analysis of Population s in Biological
Systems, Huntsville, Alabama, October
2009.
"Traveling
waves for delayed reaction-diffusion equations," International
Conference on Asymptotic Analysis and Infinite-dimensional Dynamical Systems.
Hong Kong, June 2009.
"Mathematical Modeling and
Analysis of Calcium Regulation in Yeast Cells with Extracellular Stimuli,"
The Joint Meeting of The Society of Mathematical Biology and The Chinese
Society for mathematical Biology, Hangzhou, China, June 2009.
"Traveling waves for
delayed reaction-diffusion equations " The 8th Mississippi State UAB
Conference on Differential Equations and Computational Simulations, Mississippi, May 2009.
"A Mathematical Model
for Calcium Regulation in Yeast Cells ", 2008 SIAM Annual Meeting, San Diego, July 2008
"A Mathematical Model
for Calcium Regulation in Yeast Cells ", Differential Equations
and Applications to Mathematical Biology, Le
Havre, France,
June 2008.
"A Mathematical Model
for Calcium Regulation in Yeast Cells ", The 7th AIMS Conference
on Dynamical Systems and Differential Equations, Arlington, Texas,
May 2008.
"A
Periodic Boundary Value Problem ", The 7th AIMS Conference on
Dynamical Systems and Differential Equations, Arlington, Texas, May 2008.
"A Mathematical Model
for Calcium Regulation in Yeast Cells ", The Mathematical
Biosciences Institute at the Ohio
State University
(poster), October 2008.
"Positive solutions of sublinear elliptic systems" The 7th Mississippi State_UAB Conference on Differential Equations and
Computational Simulations, Birmingham,
November 2007.
"Enhanced Modeling of the
regulation of the tryptophan operon in E. coli,"
The Joint Annual Meeting of The Society of Mathematical Biology and The
Japanese Society for mathematical Biology, San Jose, August 2007.
"Enhanced modeling of the glucose-insulin
system and its applications in insulin therapies", The 4th
international conference on mathematical Biology, Wuyishan, China, June 2007,
"Mathematical Modeling and
Qualitative Analysis of the Glucose-insulin System", Conference
on Applications of Analysis to
Mathematical Biology, Duke University,
May, 2007.
"Enhanced modeling of the
glucose-insulin system and its applications in insulin therapies", The
American Mathematical Society Section Meeting, Tucson, April, 2007 (Invited.
"A Periodic Boundary Value
Problem", The American Mathematical Society Section Meeting, Oxford, Ohio,
March, 2007.
"Mathematical Modeling and
Qualitative Analysis of the Glucose-insulin System", The Mathematical
Biosciences Institute at the Ohio
State University
(poster), March 2007.
"Mathematical Modeling and
Qualitative Analysis of Insulin Therapies", The 26th
Southeastern-Atlantic regional Conference Differential Equations at The
University of North Carolina at Greensboro,
October, 2006.
"Positive Solutions of Nonlinear
Systems of Differential Equations", International Conference on Recent
Developments in Differential Equations and Applications, Guangzhou University,
China, 7/2006 (invited).
"Positive Solutions of
Nonlinear Systems of Differential Equations", Qingdao Technological
University, Qingdao, China,
July 2006 (invited).
"Positive Solutions of
Nonlinear Systems of Differential Equations", Ocean University
of China, Qingdao, China, July 2006 (invited).
"Positive Solutions of
Nonlinear Systems of Differential Equations", Lanzhou University
of Technology , Lanzhou, China, June, 2006 (invited).
"Positive Solutions of
Nonlinear Systems of Differential Equations", Northwest Normal
University, Lanzhou, China,
June, 2006 (invited).
"Positive Solutions of
Nonlinear Systems of Differential Equations", International
Conference on Nonlinear and Stochastic Dynamics, Chengdu, China,
June, 2006.
"Mathematical Modeling and
Qualitative Analysis of the Glucose-insulin System", China-Canada
Joint Program on Modeling Infectious Diseases, Xi'an,
China,
5/2006 (invited).
"Nonlinear Systems of
Differential Equations",The
2006 Joint Meetings of the American Mathematical Society in San Antonio, January 2006 (invited).
"Positive Solutions of
Nonlinear Equations", The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, November 2005 (invited
colloquium).
"Positive Solutions of
Systems of Differential Equations", The American Mathematical Society
Section Meeting, University of Oregon, Eugene,
OR, November 2005.
"Positive Solutions of
Nonlinear Equations", The University
of Arkansas at Little Rock, April 2005.
"Positive Solutions of
Nonlinear Equations", Conference on Differential and Difference
Equations and Applications, Melbourne,
Florida, August 2005
(invited).
"Positive Solutions of
Nonlinear Equations", The second Mississippi State Conference on
Differential Equations and Computational Simulations, August 2005.
"Positive Solutions of
Nonlinear Equations", The 24th Annual Southeastern-Atlantic
Regional Conference on Differential Equations, Chattanooga TN,
October 2004.
"Existence and Nonexistence
of Positive Periodic solutions for Differential Equations", AIMS'
fifth international conference on Dynamical Systems and Differential Equations at
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, June 2004 (invited).
"Existence and nonexistence of Positive Radial Solutions for quasilinear elliptic Systems", The 2004 Joint
Meetings of the American Mathematical Society in Phoenix, January 2004.
"On the Structure of Positive Radial Solutions for Quasilinear
Equations", The Symposium on Analysis and PDEs
at Purdue University, May 2003.
"Boundary Value Problems of Ordinary Differential Equations", Auburn University,
April 1995(invited colloquium).
"Positive Solutions of Differential Equations", The second
Mississippi State Conference on Differential Equations
and Computational Simulations, April 1995.
"Positive Solutions of Ordinary Differential Equations", ODE
workshop at Ontario, Canada, July 1993.
"A Survey on Singular Boundary Value Problems", The Nankai Institute of Mathematics,
China, 9/1990
(invited).
Publication Citations:
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Undergraduate
Research Projects Directed
R. Bahr, J. Jennifer and E. Jonson and
A. Whiting, Simulations of biological models using a modifiable Matlab User Interface, Spring 2009. (Obtained the 3rd Place Award in Undergraduate Student Research and Creative
Projects Expo—Spring 2009 at the New College of Interdisciplinary
of Arts and Sciences at ASU)
C. Lagarda,
K. Morse and A. Waldvogel, Maple Animation: Making Math Interactive, Spring
2008. (Obtained the First Place Award in Undergraduate Student Research and Creative
Projects Expo—Spring 2008 at the New College of Interdisciplinary
of Arts and Sciences at ASU)
Katie Harris and Rachel
Wagner, Computer simulations of mathematical models of insulins for type II diabetics, Fall 2007.
Che
Wei Chang, A Mathematical Modeling fo
a correlation between Alzheimer’s Disease and Diabetes. Spring 2007.
Katie R. Harris, Computer Simulations of Mathematical Models of
Combinations of Insulins for Type I Diabetic. Fall
2006.
Che Wei Chang, An Improvement
of MATLAB Simulation of a Mathematical Model for Type 2 Diabetes. Fall 2006.
John Drane, Understanding Brief
Calculus with Maple, Spring 2006.
McKenna Budden,
Applications of systems of linear equations to traffic flow, Fall 2005
Ethena Hereth and Jason Norton, Positive solutions of nonlinear
polynomials (with R. Garimella), Spring
2005
Fitsum Tilahun, Positive Periodic solutions of differential
equations, Fall 2004
Service:
Chair of Committee to propose new BS degree in Applied Math
for MSAC, Fall 2005-Spring 2008
Member of Standards Committee for NCIAS, Fall 2005-Spring
2008
Member of Committee to write Program Assessment criteria for
MSAC, Fall 2005-Present
Editor, Advances in Differential Equations and Control
Processes, 2007-present.
Assistant Editor, Mathematical Biosciences and
Engineering, 2004-present
Proposal Reviewer for the Chilean Research Fund Council (FONDECYT), 2007.
Served as a reviewer for the
following 52 journals:
Advances in Difference
Equations, USA
Abstract and Applied Analysis, USA
Applied Mathematics Letters, USA
Applied Mathematics and
Computation, USA
Applicable Analysis,
USA
Boundary Value problems, USA
Bulletin of the Institute of Mathematics
Academia Sinica New Series,
Taiwan
Chinese Annals of Mathematics,
China
Clinical Medicine: Endocrinology and Diabetes,
New Zealand
Computers & Mathematics with Applications, USA
Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, USA
Communications on Applied
Nonlinear Analysis, USA
Communications in Applied Analysis,
USA
Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical
Simulations, USA
Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society, USA,
Discrete and Continuous
Dynamical Systems-Series A,
USA
Discrete and Continuous
Dynamical Systems-Series B,
USA
Discrete and Continuous
Dynamical Systems-Series S, USA
Dynamical Systems: An International Journal,
UK
Dynamic
Systems and Applications, USA
Dynamics of Partial Differential
Equations, USA
Electronic Journal of Differential Equations, USA
Journal of Applied Mathematics
& Computing, Korea
Journal of the Franklin
Institute, USA
Journal of Biological Systems, USA
International Journal of Modern Mathematics, USA
International Journal of Mathematics
and Mathematical Sciences, USA
Indian Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics,
India
Journal of Computational and
Applied Mathematics, USA
Journal of Mathematical Analysis
and Applications, USA
Journal of Theoretical Biology,
USA
Open Mathematics Journal, USA
Oxford
University Press (book proposal), UK
Mathematical Reviews of the
American Mathematical Society,
USA
Mathematical and Computer Modeling, USA
Mathematics and Computers in
Simulation, USA
Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering, USA
Mathematical
Communications, Croatia
Matemática Contemporânea,
Brazil
Nonlinear Analysis, TMA, USA
Nonlinear
Analysis Series B: Real World Applications, USA
Nonlnear Dynamics,
Netherlands
London
Mathematical Society, UK
Proceedings of the American
Mathematical Society, USA
Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical
Society, UK
Proceedings of the Indian Academy
of Sciences (Mathematical Sciences), India
Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics,
USA
Royal Society of Edinburgh
Proceedings A, UK
Sarajevo Journal of Mathematics, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Southeast Asian Bulletin of Mathematics,
China
Turkish Journal of mathematics,
Turkey
Zentralblatt MATH, Europe