Education

July 1983     B.S. Peking University, China

July 1986     M.S. Peking University, China

May 1990     Ph.D. Yale University

Research Interests

Partial Differential Equations, Fluid Dynamics, Harmonic Analysis

Employment

Sept. 2005-present        Robert W. and Lynn H. Browne Professor in Science, University of Michigan

Sept. 2003-present        Professor; Dept. of Math., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Aug. 1998-Aug. 2003     Associate Professor; Dept. of Math., University of Maryland, College Park

Aug. 1997-Aug. 1998     Associate Professor, Dept. of Math., The University of Iowa

Sept. 1996–July 1997    Member, Institute for Advanced Study

Jan. 1993–Aug. 1996     Assistant Professor, Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern University

Fall, 1992                       Member, Institute for Advanced Study

Sept. 1990–Aug. 92       Courant Instructor, Courant Institute, N.Y.U.

Honors and Awards

2022   Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

2017   Simons fellowship, Simons foundation

2010   Morningside Gold Medal in Mathematics, ICCM, 2010

2002   Invited 45min talk, International Congress of Mathematicians 2002, Beijing, China 

2001   The Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics, AMS

2001   Morningside Silver Medal in Mathematics, ICCM, 2001