I am a Cheung Kong chair professor with Zhejiang University, appointed by the Ministry of Education of China since 2001. I am directing the Center for Engineering and Scientific Computation, and serving as a deputy dean of the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, both in Zhejiang University. I had been a Senior Research Scientist for Taitech, Inc., NASA Glenn Research Center (formerly Lewis Research Center), Cleveland, Ohio, from 1998 to 2002. Prior to moving to NASA, I had been a Senior Software Scientist with Analysis and Design Application Company (adapco), New York for two years; a Senior Research Assistant (Research Associate) with University of Wales Swansea, UK for six years.
I earned a BSc in Mathematics from Hangzhou University (China), a MSc(Eng) in Mechanics from Harbin Institute of Technology (China), and a PhD in Computational Modeling from University of Wales. Prior to joining UWS in 1989 under a joint doctorate program, I pursued doctorate study in Civil Engineering at Zhejiang University (China) for two and a half years.
I have been awarded the 2002 National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, by the National Nature Science Foundation of China (NSFC). I am the author or coauthor of over 140 papers, reports and book chapters. My research has spanned Computational Science and Engineering, Aerospace, Mechanical, Civil, and Nuclear Engineering, and Mechanics. And my current interests include Flight Vehicle Design, Aerospace Propulsion Theory and Engineering, Fluid Mechanics, Engineering Mechanics, Aerospace Information Technology, and Computer Application Technology. I am a member or senior member of the AIAA, the ASME, and the IEEE. I am on the editorial boards of the Communications in Computational Physics, the Engineering Applications of Computational Fluid Mechanics, the Journal of Astronautics (in Chinese), the Manned Spaceflight (in Chinese), the Chinese Journal of Computational Mechanics, the Journal of Spacecraft TT&C Technology (in Chinese), and the Physics of Gases - Theory and Applications (in Chinese), and a referee for such publications as the International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering.
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