About
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of New Mexico. Previously I was a Simons Postdoctoral Fellow in the Center for Mathematical Biology at the University of Pennsylvania where I worked with Yoichiro Mori. I received my PhD in Applied Mathematics from the University of British Columbia under the supervision of Michael Ward and Juncheng Wei.
Research
I am primarily interested in the analysis of pattern formation in mathematical models of biological systems. Recently I have been using a combination of formal, computational, and rigorous tools to analyze localized patterns in novel reaction-diffusion systems. Specifically I have been analzying the existence and linear stability of localized solutions in reaction-diffusion systems incorporating bulk-surface coupling, boundary inhomogeneities, as well as anomalous diffusion.
Front propagation in the shadow wave-pinning model, with K.Y. Lam and Y. Mori. Journal of Mathematical Biology (2023). (24 pages)
Multi-spike solutions to the one-dimensional subcritical fractional Schnakenberg System, with J. Wei and Z. Yang. Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena (2023). (21 pages)
Stability of spike solutions to the fractional Gierer-Meinhardt system in a one-dimensional domain, with J. Wei and W. Yang. Numerical Mathematics: Theory, Methods and Applications (2022). (36 pages)
Boundary layer solutions in the Gierer-Meinhardt system, with inhomogeneous boundary conditions, with L. Mei and J. Wei. Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena (2022). (16 pages)
Pattern forming systems coupling linear bulk diffusion to dynamically active membranes or cells, with S. Iyaniwura, F. Paquin-Lefebvre, and M.J. Ward. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A. (2021). (22 pages)
Multi-spike patterns in the Gierer-Meinhardt system, with a nonzero activator boundary flux, with J. Wei. J. Nonlinear Sci. (2021). (41 pages)
An asymptotic analysis of localized three-dimensional spot patterns for the Gierer-Meinhardt model: existence, linear stability, and slow dynamics, with M.J. Ward and J. Wei. SIAM J. Appl. Math. (2021). (29 pages)
Hopf bifurcations from spike solutions for the weak coupling Gierer-Meinhardt system, with L. Mei and J. Wei. European Journal of Applied Mathematics (2021). (33 pages)
The linear stability of symmetric spike patterns for a bulk-membrane coupled Gierer-Meinhardt model, with M.J. Ward and J. Wei. SIAM J. Appl. Dyn. Syst. (2019). (40 pages)
Stable and unstable periodic spiky solutions for the Gray-Scott system and the Schnakenberg system, with L. Mei and J. Wei. J. Dyn. Diff. Eqns. (2019). (41 pages)
On isospectral deformations of an inhomogeneous string, with K. Colville and J. Szmigielski. Comm. Math. Physics 348 no. 3 (2016). (12 pages)
Asymptotic analysis of narrow escape problems in nonspherical three-dimensional domains, with A.F. Shevyakov. Phys. Rev. E. (2015). (12 pages)
The Canada Day Theorem, with H. Lundmark and J. Szmigielski. Electron. J. Combin. (2013). (16 pages)
First Hitting Time of a One-Dimensional Levy Flight to Small Targets, with S. Lawley (21 pages)
A non-singular integral equation formulation of permeable semi-infinite hydraulic fractures driven by shear-thinning fluids. M.Sc. thesis supervised by A. Peirce and M.J. Ward at UBC (2016).
Teaching
University of New Mexico:
- Fall 2024: MATH 314 (Linear Algebra with Applications).
University of Pennsylvania:
- Spring 2023: AMCS 6023 (Numerical and Applied Analysis II) joint with Y. Mori, D. Cooney, and H. Kim.
- Fall 2022: AMCS 6025 (Numerical and Applied Analysis I).
- Fall 2021: MATH 114 (Calculus II).
University of British Columbia:
- Fall 2018: MATH 110 (Differential Calculus).