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Yi Sun

	Assistant Professor Department of Mathematics University of South Carolina
	Office: LC 418C Phone: 803-777-7636 Email: yisun@math.sc.edu Homepage: http://www.math.sc.edu/~yisun/

Ph.D.	Applied & Computational Mathematics	Princeton University	2006
M.S.	Computational Mathematics	Peking University, Beijing, China	2002
B.S.	Computational Mathematics	Peking University, Beijing, China	1999

2011 – Present	Assistant Professor	Department of Mathematics, Univ. of South Carolina
2009 – 2011	Postdoctoral Research Fellow	Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute
2006 – 2009	Research Scientist	Courant Institute, NYU

Multiscale analysis, modeling and simulation in solids, fluid mechanics, chemistry and biology
Mathematical modeling and computation of biomaterials, complex biofluids, and cellular dynamics
Mathematical and computational neuroscience: dynamical system and chaos in neuronal networks
Network dynamics and flows: modeling, analysis and simulation for traffic flow
Numerical methods for partial differential equations and interface tracking
Numerical optimization and inverse problems in mathematical physics

Yi Sun, Russel Caflisch and Bjorn Engquist, A multiscale method for epitaxial growth, SIAM Multiscale Model. Simul., 9 (2011), pp.335--354.
Yi Sun and Bjorn Engquist, Heterogeneous multiscale methods for interface tracking of combustion fronts, SIAM Multiscale Model. Simul., 5 (2006), pp.532--563.
Yi Sun, Aaditya V. Rangan, Douglas Zhou and David Cai, Coarse-grained event tree analysis for quantifying Hodgkin-Huxley neuronal network dynamics, J. Comput. Neurosci., 32, (2011), accepted.
Yi Sun, Douglas Zhou, Aaditya V. Rangan and David Cai, Pseudo-Lyapunov exponents and predictability of Hodgkin-Huxley neuronal network dynamics, J. Comput. Neurosci., 28, (2010) pp.247--266.
Yi Sun, Douglas Zhou, Aaditya V. Rangan and David Cai, Library-based numerical reduction of the Hodgkin-Huxley neuron for network simulations, J. Comput. Neurosci., 27, (2009) pp.369--390.