Graduate Students



    Past Ph.D. Students

  1. Dr. Liangyue Ji, Ph.D. 2012. Thesis title: Error analysis of the discontinuous Galerkin methods for nonlinear equations and post-processing methods. First job after Ph.D.: Dunham Jackson Assistant Professor at University of Minnesota. Currently at: , E-mail:

  2. Dr. Ruihan Guo, Ph.D. 2014. Thesis title: Local discontinuous Galerkin methods and fast solvers for phase field models. First job after Ph.D.: Postdoc at Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1. Currently: Associate Professor at Zhengzhou University, E-mail: rguo at zzu.edu.cn

  3. Dr. Jinfeng Jiang, Ph.D. 2014. Thesis title: Discontinuous Galerkin methods for wave propagation in elastic materials and hyper-elastic materials. First job after Ph.D.: Postdoc at Anhui Keli Information Industry Company. Currently at: iFLYTEK Company, E-mail: jinfeng at mail.ustc.edu.cn

  4. Dr. Li Guo, Ph.D. 2015. Thesis title: Numerical algorithms for high order derivative equations and their applications. First job after Ph.D.: Postdoc at Wayne State University. Currently: ? E-mail:

  5. Dr. Lulu Tian, Ph.D. 2015, University of Twente, jointly supervised with Professor J.J.W. van der Vegt and Prof. J.G.M. Kuerten. Thesis title: Local discontinuous Galerkin methods for phase transition problems. First job after Ph.D.: Assistant Professor China University of Petroleum. Currently at: Assistant Professor at China University of Petroleum. E-mail: tianll at upc.edu.cn

  6. Dr. Zhongjie Lu, Ph.D. 2017, Thesis title: Discontinuous Galerkin approximations for computing band gaps in photonic crystals. First job after Ph.D.: Postdoc at Pavia University. Currently at: University of Science and Technology of China,? E-mail: zhjlu at ustc.edu.cn

  7. Dr. Lingling Zhou, Ph.D. 2018, Thesis title: Stability, Error Estimates and Superconvergence Analysis for Discontinuous Galerkin Method. First job after Ph.D.: Lecturer at Henan Polytechnic University. Currently at: Lecturer at Henan Polytechnic University,? E-mail: lingzhou at hpu.edu.cn

  8. Dr. Pei Fu, Ph.D. 2018, Thesis title: The Study of Discontinuous Galerkin Methods with Property Preserving. First job after Ph.D.: Postdoc at University of Science and Technology of China. Currently at: Postdoc at Uppsala Universitet, E-mail: sxfp at mail.ustc.edu.cn

  9. Dr. Chao Zhang, Ph.D. 2019, Thesis title: Local discontinuous Galerkin methods and theoretical analysis for nonlinear wave equations. First job after Ph.D.: HIK VISION. Currently at: HIK VISION, ?E-mail: zc56 at mail.ustc.edu.cn

  10. Dr. Qian Zhang, Ph.D. 2019, Thesis title: The high-order conservative numerical methods for singular solutions of wave equations. First job after Ph.D.: Postdoc at University of Science and Technology of China. Currently at: Postdoc at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, ?E-mail: gelee at ustc.edu.cn

  11. Dr. Qi Tao, Ph.D. 2020, Thesis title: Error Estimates and superconvergence analysis of discontinuous Galerkin methods. First job after Ph.D.: Postdoc at Beijing Computational Science Research Center. Currently at: Postdoc at Beijing Computational Science Research Center, E-mail: taoq at mail.ustc.edu.cn

  12. Dr. Jianli Zhao, Ph.D. 2020, Thesis title: The high resolution numerical methods for nonlinear high order dispersive equations. First job after Ph.D.: Henan University of Engineering, Currently at: Henan University of Engineering, E-mail: zjl88914 at mail.ustc.edu.cn

  13. Dr. Fengna Yan, Ph.D. 2020, jointly supervised with Professor J.J.W. van der Vegt. Thesis title: Error estimates and bound preserving schemes of discontinuous Galerkin methods for nonlinear equations. First job after Ph.D.: Hefei University of Technology Currently at: Hefei University of Technology, E-mail: yfnlj at mail.ustc.edu.cn

  14. Dr. Xue Hong, Ph.D. 2021. jointly supervised with Professor Yinhua Xia. Thesis title: The development and analysis for discontinuous Galerkin methods in Lagrangian-Eulerian framework. First job after Ph.D.: University of Delaware Currently at: Univ Rennes, France. E-mail: xuehong1 at mail.ustc.edu.cn

  15. Dr. Weijie Zhang, Ph.D. 2021. Thesis title: Structure preserving discontinuous Galerkin methods for hyperbolic conservation law with source term. First job after Ph.D.: University of Kansas, Currently at: University of Kansas, E-mail: zhwj at mail.ustc.edu.cn


    Past MS.C. Students

  1. Mr. Tian Ma, MS.C. 2018, Thesis title: Local discontinuous Galerkin methods for the two-dimensional Camassa-Holm equation. First job after MS.C.: China Merchants Bank. Currently at: China Merchants Bank, E-mail: diamond8 at mail.ustc.edu.cn

  2. Mr. Qiao Kang, MS.C. 2020, Thesis title: Numerical Methods for a Finite-Strain Plate and Its Simulation. First job after MS.C.: Huawei Tech Co. . Currently at: Huawei Tech Co. E-mail:


    Current Ph.D. Students

  1. Mr. Xiangyi Meng, Research area: Local discontinuous Galerkin methods for phase transition problems.

  2. Ms. Xiaoyu Cheng, Research area: Discontinuous Galerkin methods.

  3. Ms. Xiaoxuan Yu, Research area: Numerical methods for nonlocal PDEs.

  4. Mr. Wei Zheng, Research area: Implicit methods for nonlinear PDEs.

  5. Ms. Jinyang Lu, Research area: Discontinuous Galerkin methods for nonlinear PDEs.

  6. Ms. Jiahui Zhang, Research area: High order methods for hyperbolic conservation law with source term.

  7. Mr. Lei Wei, Research area: Discontinuous Galerkin methods for nonlinear PDEs.


    Current Master Students


Postdoctors



  1. Dr. Venu Gopal, CAS President's International Postdoctoral Researcher (June 2015 -- May 2017).

  2. Dr. Pei Fu, (July 2018 --March 2019).

  3. Dr. Qian Zhang, (June 2019 -- ).

  4. Dr. Zhongjie Lu, (November 2019 -- ).

  5. Dr. Yue Li, (June 2021 -- ).


Research visitors



  1. Ms. Irana Denissen, University of Twente (September 3, 2012--December 7, 2012).

  2. Mr. Gero Schnuecke, Wuerzburg University (March 4, 2015--April 19, 2015, September 9, 2015--October 2, 2015, April 20, 2016--June 16, 2016).



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