Jun Lai - Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences

Jun Lai
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU.
Email: [email protected]
EDUCATION
2013 PhD in Applied Mathematics
Department of Mathematics, Michigan State University
• Dissertation Topic: Optimal design of a cavity for radar cross section
reduction
• Advisor: Gang Bao (http://www.math.msu.edu/∼bao/)
2008 BS in Information and Computation Science
Department of Mathematics, Nanjing University, China.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
• Numerical computation for PDEs in the high frequency regime, including wave equation,
Maxwell’s equation
• Optimal design of a cavity for radar cross section reduction
• Inverse scattering problem
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
• Courant instructor in Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences New York
University, (Fall 2014-Current)
• Postdoc in Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences New York University,
(Fall 2013-Fall 2014)
• Research Assistant Michigan State University, (Spring 2010-Summer 2013)
PUBLICATIONS
• Gang Bao and Jun Lai, Radar cross section reduction of a cavity in the ground plane,
published in Communications in computational physics, 2013.
• Gang Bao, Jun Lai and Jianliang Qian, Multiscale Gaussian Beam Method for wave
equation in the bounded domain, published in Journal of Computational Physics, 2014.
• Gang Bao and Jun Lai, Optimal shape design of a cavity for RCS reduction, published
in SIAM Journal On Control and Optimization, 2014.
• Gang Bao and Jun Lai, Radar cross section reduction of a cavity in the ground plane: TE
polarization, published in Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems -Series S, 2014.
• Jun Lai, Sivaram Ambikasaran, and Leslie F. Greengard Fast direct solver for high frequency scattering from a large cavity in 2D, to appear in SIAM Journal On Scientific
Computing, 2014.
• Jun Lai, Motoki Kobayashi and Leslie Greengard A fast solver for multi-particle scattering
in a layered medium, to appear in Optics Express, 2014.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
• Teaching assistant Ordinary Differential Equations, (Spring 2013)
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Instructor Calculus I, (Spring 2012)
Instructor Applied Calculus (Fall 2011)
Instructor Calculus II (Summer 2011)
Instructor College Algebra (Summer and Fall 2009)
Teaching assistant Calculus II (Spring 2009)
Online instructor Intermediate Collage Algebra (Fall 2008)
CONFERENCE and SEMINAR TALKS
• Fast solver on multi-particle scattering in a layered structure, SIAM annual meeting,
Chicago, Jul 2014
• Fast solver on a large cavity problem, Fast direct solver workshop, Dartmouth College,
Jun 2014
• Fast solver on a large cavity problem, Applied math seminar, Michigan State University,
Mar 2014
• Optimal design of a cavity for radar cross section reduction, Applied math seminar,
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU, Sep 2013
• Optimal design of a cavity for radar cross section reduction, Student seminar, Michigan
State University, Oct 2012
• Gaussian Beams applied to the bounded domain problem, Student seminar, Michigan State
University, Nov 2011
• Gaussian Beams applied to the bounded domain problem, IMA summer program, Michigan
State University, June 2010
WORKSHOPS ATTENDED
• Midwest numerical analysis day, Purdue University, West Lafayette, May 2011
• Workshop on multi-scale modeling and computation of nano-optics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, March 2011
• Workshop on inverse problems: theory, computation and applications, Michigan State
University, East Lansing, April 2010
HONORS and TRAVEL FUNDS
• Dissertation completion fellowship (Summer 2013)
• IMA Travel fund (Summer 2009)
• Distinguished Student of Nanjing University (2007)
• People’s Scholarship of Nanjing University (2006, 2007)
• Zhixing Culture and Education Fellowship of Nanjing University (2006)
COMPUTER SKILLS
• Fortran, Matlab (Extensive experience), C++, Maple,
• CUDA (parallel computing on GPU)
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LANGUAGE
• Chinese (Native speaker)
• English (Fluent)
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
• Member of Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
• Member of American Mathematical Society (AMS)
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