Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Department of Mathematics
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208
Office: LeConte 422
Email: xfliu@math.sc.edu
Phone: 803-576-5849 (Office); Fax: 803-777-3783.

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Research Interests

Computational Biology

    Mechanisms of Specifity and Fidelity in Signal Transduction
    Regulation of Spatially Localized Scaffold Proteins in MAPK Cascades
    Morphogen Gradient Formation in Developmental Biology

Numerical Partial Differential Equations

    Front Tracking Methods
    Implicit Integration Factor and ETD Methods
    Adaptive Mesh Refinement
    Scientific Computing

Computational Fluid Dynamics

    Computational Analysis of Rayleigh-Taylor Instability
    Numerical Studies of Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability

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Research Grants

PI, NSF Mathematical Biology Division, DMS1019544, 2010-2013.

Co-PI, South Carolina EPSCoR/IDeA GEAR program, 2011-2012.

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Academic Experience

Assistant Professor, August 2009-Present, Department of Mathematics, University of South Carolina, SC, USA

Visiting Assistant Professor, July 2006-July 2009, Department of Mathematics, University of California at Irvine, CA, USA
Mentor: Professor Qing Nie

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Education

Ph.D., May 2006, Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, SUNY at Stony Brook, New York, USA
Thesis: Turbulent mixing with scale breaking phenomena
Advisor: Professor James Glimm

M.S., May 1999, Department of Applied Mathematics, Southeast University, Nanjing, China
Thesis: The critical exponent of doubly singular parabolic equations
Advisor: Professor Mingxin Wang

B.S., May 1997, Department of Mathematics, Fudan University, Shanghai, China