Research Fellow of IAS, American Physical Society (APS) Fellow. Prof. Shan received his BS and MS degrees from Peking University in 1985 and 1988 respectively, and his PhD from Dartmouth College in 1991. From 1991 to 2012 he worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Microsoft, and Exa Corporation (now part of Dassault Systems SE), all in the United States. In 2012 he joined COMAC as the Director for Aerodynamics. In 2016 he joined SUSTech to found the Department of Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering.
Prof. Shan is best known for the Shan-Chen non-ideal gas lattice Boltzmann model that he co-invented in 1993, and the paper was selected as one of the 25 Milestones in the 25th anniversary of Physical Review E. In 2009 he was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society for his groundbreaking contributions and pioneering work in practical engineering applications. Prof. Shan's main research areas are Lattice Boltzmann Equation, Aerodynamics, Aerospace and Aircraft Design.
The research postgraduate program in Applied Mathematics offers an interdisciplinary program of graduate study in Applied Mathematics leading to the PhD degree. This program is designed to give students a thorough training in fundamental Applied Mathematics and to develop their research ability in a specific application field. The fields of application include a wide range of areas such as fluid mechanics, materials science, and mathematical biology, engineering applications, image processing, and mathematical finance. The training essential for future careers in Applied Mathematics in academia, national laboratories, or in industry is provided by completion of the requirements for a PhD degree in Applied Mathematics.
Please contact each supervisor before submitting the application:
Prof. Xiaowen SHAN
（xiaowenshan@uic.edu.cn）
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https://gs.uic.edu.cn/graduate1/Research_Postgraduate_Programme/Applied_Mathematics.htm