Qiang Du

Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics

Qiang Du leads the Computational Mathematics and Multiscale Modeling (CM3) group at Columbia. CM3 conducts research at the interface of mathematical, computational and data sciences through partnerships with experts from different fields. The work produced by the CM3 group often reflects integrated efforts that involve the creation of mathematical concepts, the derivation of effective models, the development of robust and scalable computational methods, and large scale numerical simulations on powerful supercomputers, as well as applications in diverse scientific and engineering disciplines.

  • Chair of Applied Mathematics Program, 2014-2020
  • Fu Foundation Professor of Applied Mathematics, Columbia University, 2014-
  • Verne M. Willaman Professor of Mathematics, Penn State University, 2006-2014.
  • Professor of Materials Science an Engineering, Penn State University, 2005-2014
  • Professor of Mathematics, Penn State University, 2001-2016.
  • SIAM Review SIGEST Award 2020
  • Fellow, American Mathematical Society, 2020
  • Invited speaker of International Congress of Mathematicians, 2018
  • Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2017
  • ACM Gordon Bell Prize Finalist (2016), for the world’s largest extreme scale simulations using the most powerful supercomputer on earth
  • SIAM Outstanding Paper prize (2016) , for a paper published in SIAM J. Numerical Analysis  (coauthored with Ph.D student Xiaochuan TIan) on numerical methods for nonlocal models
  • Fellow, Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 2013
  • Feng Kang Prize in Scientific Computing, 2008