Scholar
Yanlai Chen
Google Scholar ID: YRYmr8cAAAAJ
Professor of Mathematics, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Citations & Impact
Citations
548
H-index
13
i10-index
20
Publications
20
Co-authors
28
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Contact
Publications
Resume
Academic Achievements
- Grants from National Science Foundation (DMS-1216928, DMS-1719698, DUE-2030552, DMS-2208277)
- Grant from AFOSR (FA9550-25-1-0181)
- Co-PI/Team member of UMass Dartmouth MUST program established by Dr. Ramprasad Balasubramanian and sponsored by ONR
- UMass Dartmouth Chancellor's Research Fund and Joseph P. Healey Endowment Grants (2011–2012)
- Startup fund from College of Arts and Sciences (2010–2013)
- UMassD multidisciplinary seed funding (Spring 2014)
- UMass President's Office Science and Technology initiative funds (2013–2014)
- Publications include: 'Reduced Basis Methods for Parametric Steady-State Radiative Transfer Equation', 'Derivative-informed Graph Convolutional Autoencoder with Phase Classification for the Lifshitz-Petrich Model', 'ReBaNO: Reduced Basis Neural...'
Research Experience
- Postdoctoral Researcher at Brown University under the supervision of Prof. Jan Hesthaven and Prof. Yvon Maday
- Joined University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Department of Mathematics as Assistant Professor in August 2010
- Subsequently promoted to Associate Professor with tenure and then to Full Professor
- Served as (Co-)Graduate Program Director of the Engineering and Applied Science program from September 2020 to June 2024
- Co-Director of the Center for Scientific Computing and Data Science Research from January to July 2022
- Appointed Chief Research Officer of UMass Dartmouth in Spring 2024, effective July 1, 2024
Background
- Research interests include: Numerical Analysis, Scientific Computing, Computational Partial Differential Equations
- Dimension reduction, Data mining, Scientific Machine Learning, Data visualization
- Neural networks, Meta learning
- Conservation Laws, Hamilton-Jacobi-like equations and applications
- Finite Element Discontinuous Galerkin Method, Adaptive numerical methods
- Reduced Basis Methods, Reduced Basis Element Methods and Applications
- Computational Electromagnetism
- Mixed Finite Element Methods, Hybridizable Discontinuous Galerkin Methods
- Uncertainty quantification, Fractional-order partial differential equations
