| Zhilan Julie Feng | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1959 |
| Nationality | Chinese-American |
| Alma mater | Jilin University, Arizona State University |
| Occupation | Applied mathematician |
Zhilan Julie Feng (born 1959) 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, and a program director in the Division of Mathematical Sciences at the National Science Foundation.
Education and career
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. Her dissertation, A Mathematical Model for the Dynamics of Childhood Diseases Under the Impact of Isolation, was supervised by Horst R. Thieme.
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.
Recognition
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".
Books
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)
References
- Birth year from copyright page of Applications of Epidemiological Models to Public Health Policymaking: The role of heterogeneity in model predictions
- ^ 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, ; Yilun Shang, Zbl 1433.92001
External links
- Home page
- Zhilan Feng publications indexed by Google Scholar
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