Research
Partial Differential Equations · Inverse Problems
Academic positions
Feb. 2023–present
Associate Professor, Department of Applied Mathematics, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan.
2018–2023
Specially Appointed Associate Researcher, College of Mathematics, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.
2017–2018
Postdoctoral Fellow, HKUST Jockey Club Institute for Advanced Study, Hong Kong.
2015–2017
Postdoctoral Researcher, National Center for Theoretical Sciences, National Taiwan University, Taipei.
2014–2015
Lecturer in Physics, Brockenhurst College, Brockenhurst, United Kingdom; teaching at No. 7 Middle School, Chengdu, China.
2012–2014
Staff Member, Rochester Zen Center, Rochester, New York, United States (repair and maintenance; bookkeeping).
2010–2012
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, United States.
2006–2010
Lecturer in the College, Department of Mathematics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States.
2005–2006
College Fellow, Department of Mathematics, University of Chicago.
2003–2004
Teaching Assistant, Department of Physics, University of Chicago.
Education
2006–2010
Ph.D. in Mathematics, University of Chicago. Advisers: Carlos Kenig and Wilhelm Schlag. Thesis: “A construction of blow up solutions for co-rotational wave maps.”
2004–2006
M.Sc. in Mathematics, University of Chicago.
2003–2004
University of Chicago, Physics Department.
2002–2003
University of Bucharest, Faculty of Physics.
1998–2002
Diplomă de Licență, University of Bucharest, Faculty of Physics.
Talks
Conference and seminar talks, newest first.
Conference talks
Jun. 2026
“An Inverse Obstacle Problem for Variational Inequalities,” Pacific Rim conference.
Dec. 2024
“Uniqueness in the inverse boundary value problem for the weighted p-Laplacian,” 14th American Institute of Mathematics Conference, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
Nov. 2024
“Prescribed nonlinearity helps in an anisotropic Calderón-type problem,” Japan-Taiwan Joint Workshop on Inverse Problems and Related Topics, Taipei.
May 2024
“Uniqueness in the inverse boundary value problem for the weighted p-Laplacian,” Workshop on Inverse Problems and Applications, Taipei.
Dec. 2023
“A Density Property for Tensor Products of Gradients of Harmonic Functions,” East Asia Section of IPIA - 7th Young Scholar Symposium, Hong Kong.
Sep. 2023
“An inverse problem for the porous medium equation,” Applied Inverse Problems Conference 2023, Göttingen, Germany.
Sep. 2023
“A density property for tensor products of gradients of harmonic functions,” Applied Inverse Problems Conference 2023, Göttingen, Germany.
Aug. 2023
“An inverse problem for the porous medium equation,” International Workshop on Operator Theory and Applications 2023, Helsinki, Finland.
Jan. 2022
“On some inverse problems for the porous medium equation,” RIMS Workshop on Theory and Practice in Inverse Problems, Kyoto, Japan (online).
Nov. 2019
“Reconstruction from boundary data of the coefficients of a quasilinear PDE,” 2019 Conference on Mathematical Control Theory and Related Topics, Chengdu, China.
Jul. 2019
“On an inverse boundary value problem for a nonlinear time harmonic Maxwell system,” Applied Inverse Problems Conference 2019, Grenoble, France.
Sep. 2018
“On an inverse boundary value problem for a nonlinear time harmonic Maxwell system,” International Workshop on Inverse Problems for Partial Differential Equations, Nanjing, China.
Aug. 2018
“An inverse boundary value problem for a nonlinear time harmonic Maxwell system,” 9th International Conference on Inverse Problems and Related Topics, Singapore.
Mar. 2018
“Size estimates in the 3D elasticity inverse boundary value problem using the translation method,” 3rd East Asia IPIA Young Scholars Symposium, Hong Kong.
Mar. 2017
“A Uniqueness Result for the Inverse Boundary Value Problem of Generally Anisotropic Elasticity with Piecewise Constant Coefficients,” NCTS Spring Day, Taipei.
Nov. 2016
“A Uniqueness Result for the Inverse Boundary Value Problem of Generally Anisotropic Elasticity with Piecewise Constant Coefficients,” 2nd East Asia Section of IPIA Young Scholars Symposium, Taipei.
May 2016
“Boundary reconstruction for the Calderón problem in two dimensions (with unbounded conductivities),” 2016 TWSIAM Annual Meeting, Nantou.
Apr. 2016
“Uniqueness for the Calderón problem in two dimensions with unbounded conductivities,” Taiwan-Japan Joint Workshop on Inverse Problems 2016, Kyoto, Japan.
Mar. 2016
“Uniqueness for the Calderón problem in two dimensions with unbounded conductivities,” 1st East Asia Symposium of IPIA, Shenzhen, China.
Mar. 2016
“The Calderón problem in two dimensions (with unbounded conductivities),” NCTS Spring Day, Taipei.
Seminar talks
May 2026
“Stability from Uniqueness in Finite-Dimensional Analytic Inverse Problems,” National Center for Theoretical Sciences, Taipei.
Aug. 2025
“Uniqueness in the inverse boundary value problem for the weighted p-Laplacian (in the plane),” University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
Nov. 2024
“Uniqueness in the inverse boundary value problem for the weighted p-Laplacian,” National Taiwan University, Taipei.
Jun. 2023
“An inverse problem for the porous medium equation,” Academia Sinica, Taipei.
Mar. 2023
“An inverse problem for the porous medium equation,” National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei.
Nov. 2019
“Propagation of smallness for elliptic PDE with piecewise Lipschitz coefficients,” NCTS, National Taiwan University, Taipei.
Oct. 2019
“Propagation of smallness for elliptic PDE with piecewise Lipschitz coefficients,” University College London, London, United Kingdom.
Jun. 2018
“Uniqueness for the inverse boundary value problem of anisotropic elasticity with piecewise constant coefficients” and “On an inverse boundary value problem for a nonlinear time harmonic Maxwell system,” Sichuan University, Chengdu, China (two talks).
Mar. 2018
“Uniqueness for the inverse boundary value problem of anisotropic elasticity with piecewise constant coefficients,” Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.
Jan. 2018
“Uniqueness for the inverse boundary value problem of anisotropic elasticity with piecewise constant coefficients,” Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong.
Jun. 2017
“Uniqueness for the inverse boundary value problem of anisotropic elasticity with piecewise constant coefficients,” National Taiwan University, Taipei.
Oct. 2015
“A construction of blow-up solutions for co-rotational wave maps,” NCTS, National Taiwan University, Taipei.
Dec. 2010
“A construction of blow-up solutions for co-rotational wave maps,” University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, United States.
Feb. 2010
“A construction of blow-up solutions for co-rotational wave maps,” University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States.
Publications
The complete publication list, including current preprints and DOI/arXiv links, is available on the publications page.