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I am now a postdoctral research associate in Applied Mathematics program of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
I work on modeling and simulation of complex fluids in the research group of
Complex Fluids and Soft
Matter Materials under guidance of my advisor professor Greg Forest of UNC-CH Amath group. My current research activities involve the study of human lung mucus transport phenomena. We are mainly interested in the model at microscopic scale for diffusive transport of pathgen in mucus layer of lung. Now our task is to characterize the viscoelasticity of mucus layer and we are using statistical tools for noisy time series to theoretically model the dynamics of small passive tracer in mucus and try to infer the transport properties with the framework we are setting up, so we could predict the movement of virus or bacteria in human lung mucus layer. With my another advisor Sorin Mitran, I also work on the development of numerical solvers that make it possible to simulate the mucus transport by incorpoting what we get from the inversion characterization of mucus. These works are part of the Virtual Lung Project (VLP) in UNC campus. The VLP is collaboration work among faculty members and students from Applied Math, Physics, Chemistry Department and Medical school. In the link of VLP given above, there are lots of fun stuff like movies and pictures of experiments you could look at.
Myself
I got a B.S degree from Xi'an Jiaotong Unviersity in Computational Mathematics and a Master degree from Academy of Mathematics and System Science (AMSS), Chinese Academy of Sciences, supervised by professor Linbo Zhang. The picture was taken during a trip to Outer Banks, NC, summer of 2005.