Zhilan Julie Feng (born 1959)[1] is a Chinese-American applied mathematician whose research topics include mathematical biology, population dynamics, and epidemiology. She is a professor of mathematics at Purdue University,[2] and a program director in the Division of Mathematical Sciences at the National Science Foundation.[3]
Zhilan Julie Feng | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1959 |
| Nationality | Chinese-American |
| Alma mater | Jilin University, Arizona State University |
| Occupation | Applied mathematician |
Education and career edit
Feng studied mathematics at Jilin University in China, earning a bachelor's degree in 1982 and a master's degree in 1985. She came to Arizona State University for graduate study, completing her Ph.D. in 1994.[2] Her dissertation, A Mathematical Model for the Dynamics of Childhood Diseases Under the Impact of Isolation, was supervised by Horst R. Thieme.[4]
After her postdoctoral study at Cornell University, she joined Purdue University as an assistant professor in 1996. She was promoted to full professor in 2005, and became a program director at the National Science Foundation in 2019.[2]
Recognition edit
Feng was named a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, in the 2022 class of fellows, "for contributions to applied mathematics, particularly in biology, ecology, and epidemiology".[5]
Books edit
Feng's books include:
- Disease Evolution: Models, Concepts, and Data Analyses (American Mathematical Society, 2006, edited with Ulf Dieckmann and Simon A. Levin)
- Applications of Epidemiological Models to Public Health Policymaking: The role of heterogeneity in model predictions (World Scientific, 2014)
- Mathematical Models of Plant-Herbivore Interactions (Chapman & Hall / CRC, 2018, with Donald DeAngelis)
- Mathematical Models in Epidemiology (Springer, 2019, with Fred Brauer and Carlos Castillo-Chavez)[6]
References edit
- ^ Birth year from copyright page of Applications of Epidemiological Models to Public Health Policymaking: The role of heterogeneity in model predictions
- ^ a b c Curriculum vitae, retrieved 2021-08-29
- ^ "Zhilan Julie Feng", Staff Directory, National Science Foundation, retrieved 2021-08-29
- ^ Zhilan Feng at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ 2022 Class of Fellows of the AMS, American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2021-11-05
- ^ Reviews of Mathematical Models in Epidemiology: Roslyn Hickson, SIAM Review, doi:10.1137/21N975308; Glenn Ledder, MAA Reviews, [1]; Yilun Shang, Zbl 1433.92001
External links edit
- Home page
- Zhilan Feng publications indexed by Google Scholar
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