Zhilan Feng

Zhilan Julie Feng
Born1959
NationalityChinese-American
Alma materJilin University, Arizona State University
OccupationApplied mathematician

Zhilan Julie Feng (born 1959)[1] 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,[2] and a program director in the Division of Mathematical Sciences at the National Science Foundation.[3]

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.[2] Her dissertation, A Mathematical Model for the Dynamics of Childhood Diseases Under the Impact of Isolation, was supervised by Horst R. Thieme.[4]

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.[2]

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".[5]

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)[6]

References

  1. ^ Birth year from copyright page of Applications of Epidemiological Models to Public Health Policymaking: The role of heterogeneity in model predictions
  2. ^ a b c Curriculum vitae, retrieved 2021-08-29
  3. ^ "Zhilan Julie Feng", Staff Directory, National Science Foundation, retrieved 2021-08-29
  4. ^ Zhilan Feng at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. ^ 2022 Class of Fellows of the AMS, American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2021-11-05
  6. ^ Reviews of Mathematical Models in Epidemiology: Roslyn Hickson, SIAM Review, doi:10.1137/21N975308; Glenn Ledder, MAA Reviews, [1]; Yilun Shang, Zbl 1433.92001


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