Education:
Ph.D. (2002) CAAM Department , Rice University
B.S./M.S. (1994/1997) Xi'an Jiaotong University, China

Post-doc:
 (7/2002--1/2004), Mathematics and Computer Science Division and Chemistry Division , Argonne National Laboratory
(2/2004--7/2006), Computer Science Dept. , University of Minnesota

I am very grateful to my former mentors/colleagues:

Academic genealogy tree: G. E. Forsythe -> B. N. Parlett -> J. Bunch -> D. C. Sorensen -> Y. Zhou

Backtracing from Forsythe : ... (1) Chebyshev -> Markov -> Tamarkin -> Forsythe ; and (2) ... Leibniz -> Bernoulli -> Bernoulli -> Euler -> Lagrange -> Fourier -> Dirichlet -> Lipschitz -> Klein -> Lindemann -> Hilbert -> Courant -> Feller -> Forsythe

Aug. 2007