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]
Zhilan Julie Feng | |
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Born | 1959 |
Nationality | Chinese-American |
Alma mater | Jilin University, Arizona State University |
Occupation | Applied mathematician |
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]
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]
Feng's books include: