Faculty

Yuefan Deng

Professor, Ph.D., 1989, Columbia University
Molecular Dynamics; Parallel Computing

Yuefan Deng’s research involves developing parallel computing algorithms for a wide range of scientific problems.  In particular, he is a specialist in parallelizing the optimization technique of simulated annealing.  Deng has served as a consultant to IBM in refining the Deep Blue chess program and designing the Blue Gene supercomputers and so Craig Venter, who used ‘shot-gun sequencing’ techniques with parallel computers to complete the Human Genome Initiative several years ahead of schedule.

Office: Physics A-135
Phone: 631-632-8614
yuefan.deng@stonybrook.edu

James Glimm

Distinguished Professor, Ph.D., 1959
Columbia Univ: Mathematical Physics; Nonlinear Waves 

James Glimm has made fundamental contributions to nonlinear analysis—winning the Amer. Math. Soc. Steele Prize— to quantum field theory—winning the American Physical Soc. Heineman Prize—and to computational fluid dynamics.  The Department of Energy adopted Glimm’s front-track methodology for shock-wave calculations, e.g., simulating weapons performance.  Glimm is a member of the Nat. Academy of Science and Academia Sinica and is a recipient of the National Medal of Science.  In 2007-08, he was President of the Amer. Math Soc.

Office: Math Tower 1-121
Phone: 631-632-8355
james.glimm@stonybrook.edu

Robert Harrison

Professor and Endowed Director of Institute for Advanced Computational Science, Ph.D, 1984
University of Cambridge; Theoretical Chemistry

Robert Harrison's research interests are focused on scientific computing and the development of computational chemistry methods for the world's most technologically advanced supercomputers.

Office: Math Tower, 2-108
Phone: 631-632-8121
robert.harrison@stonybrook.edu

Xiangming Jiao

Associate Professor, Graduate Program Director, Ph.D., 2001
University of Illinois; Numerical Analysis, Super Computing

Dr. Jiao's research interests are in high-performance geometric and numerical computing in science and engineering. His work focuses on developing efficient and robust algorithms and high-performance software implementations for applied computational and differential geometry, generalized finite difference and finite element methods, multigrid and iterative methods for sparse linear systems, and multiphysics coupling, with applications in computational fluid dynamics and structural mechanics, biomedical engineering, climate modeling, etc.  

Office: Math Tower 1-115
Phone: 631-632-4408
xiangmin.jiao@stonybrook.edu

Xiaolin Li

Professor, Ph.D., 1987 Columbia University: Computational Applied Mathematics

Xiaolin Li's major research objective is to design and implement a high resolution numerical method, the front tracking method, for the study of fluid interface instabilities such as the Rayleigh-Taylor instability and the Richtmyer-Meshkov instability. His research has involved collaborations with scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Argonne National Laboratory and Brookhaven National Laboratory and the software has been used for research of various scientific problems such as the inertial confinement fusion and the study of fuel injection nozzle. 

Office: Math Tower 1-122
Phone: 631-632-8354
xiaolin.li@stonybrook.edu

Matthew G. Reuter

Research Assistant Professor, Ph.D., 2011
Northwestern University: Chemistry;Computational Chemistry; Mathematical Physics

Matt Reuter joined SBU in 2014 as an Assistant Professor. Prior to coming to Stony Brook he was a Research Associate in the Department of Chemistry at Northwestern University, where he studied single-molecule behavior. He received B.Sc. degrees in chemistry and mathematics from Michigan Technological University (2006) and a Ph.D. degree in theoretical/ computational chemistry from Northwestern University (2011). From 2011 to 2013, he was a Eugene P. Wigner Fellow at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where he developed theories and algorithms for studying electron transport processes and materials chemistry. Matt is the lead author of 17 peer-reviewed journal articles. He was also the recipient of a U.S. DoE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship for most of his graduate studies at Northwestern. 

Office: Mathematics Tower, 1-117
Phone: 631-632-8198
matthew.reuter@stonybrook.edu

Roman Samulyak

Professor, Ph.D., 1999
NJIT: Applied and Computational Mathematics, Hydro- and Electrodynamics

Roman Samulyak’s research involves mathematical modeling, numerical algorithms, and high performance computing. He works on the development of numerical algorithms based on particles and meshes for hydro- and magnetohydrodynamics, electrodynamics, and solid dynamics, in particular brittle fracture. His applications include processes in particle accelerators, high energy density physics, and nuclear fusion and fission devices.

Office: Math Tower 1-108
Phone: 631-632-8353
roman.samulyak@stonybrook.edu