Professor of Applied Mathematics, Stony Brook
University (1998-Present)
Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics, Columbia
University (1989)
Research Area: supercomputer design and
applications in life and physical sciences
Yuefan Deng
entered Columbia University in 1983, after graduating from Nankai
University with honors, through a special scholarship program CUSPEA organized
by the Chinese-American Nobel laureate Professor T. D. Lee. His Ph.D. thesis on
simulating gauge theory with supercomputers, completed in 1989, was supervised
by Professor Norman Christ. After a brief stay at NYU’s Courant Institute of
Mathematical Sciences as Professor James Glimm’s
postdoctoral fellow in 1989, he joined the faculty of Stony Brook University
where he was promoted to full professor of applied mathematics in 1999. Deng
has published more than 70 papers in physics, applied mathematics, biomedical
engineering, and biosciences. Working with Nobel laureate Professor C. N. Yang,
he has published several joint papers in number theory and theoretical physics
in addition to Yang’s biography. Deng has published a book on ordinary
differential equations and another on parallel computing. He holds 13 patents
(including pending patents) in China and US. He has supervised and is supervising
nearly 30 doctoral students and has taught 3,300 undergraduate students. His research was supported by the US DOE, NSF, New York State, and
ARO, as well as China’s Ministry of Science and Technology. Deng
spent his sabbaticals at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and
at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Lab where he joined the group of Deep Blue.