About Me
Brief Profile: [MGP; ORCID; MathSciNet; zbMath; Google Scholar; Erdos Number: 3; Einstein Number: 4 ]
Education
- Ph.D.: York University (Canada)
- MSc.: Hunan University (China)
- BSc.: Zhongshan (Sun Yat-sen) University (China)
Working Experience
- Professor (2009-), associate professor (2006-2008), assistant professor (2004-2005): Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Western Ontario
- Associate professor (2002-2006), assistant professor (1999-2002): Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Memorial University
- NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Senior Research Scientist, Center for Dynamical Systems and Nonlinear Studies, Georgia Institute of Technology (1998.07-1998.12)
- NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow: Dept. of Math. & Stat., University of Victoria (1997.01-1998.07)
- Course Instructor: Dept. of Math. & Stat., York University (1996.09-1996.12)
- Lecturer (assistant professor): Dept of Mathematics, Central-South Forestry University (1989-1992);
- Instructor: Dept of Mathematics, Central-South Forestry University (1983-1986).
Research Interests
- Applied dynamical systems (including ordinary, functional and partial differential equations, difference equations) and biomathematics.
Awards and Honors
- John von Neumann International Scholar (serior) (Hungarian National Excellence Programme, tenured at University of Szeged, Hungary, 2014)
- Distinguished Research Professor (2011)
- NSERC Discovery Accelerator Award(2010)
- Premier's Research Excellence Award (2005)
- Petro-Canada Young Innovator Award (2002)
- NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship (1997)
Editorships
- Chief Editor, Mathematics in Applied Sciences and Engineering (2020---)
- Associate editor, Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering (2014---)
- Associate editor, Journal of Applied Mathematics (2011-2013)
- Associate editor, Applicable Analysis (2010---)
- Co-editor-in-Chief, Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems (AE: 2000-2007; Co-chief: 2008-2020)
- Associate editor, International Journal of Differential Equations (2008---)
- Associate editor, Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics (2003---)
- Associate editor, Communications in Pure and Applied Analysis (2003-2016)
- Associate editor, Annals of Differential Equations (2002-2014)
