Postdoc Assistant Professor Xiaoming Zheng

Contact Information Email: xmzheng at umich.edu Office: 3836 East Hall Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor Office phone: (734)-936-9932 Mailing address: 2074 East Hall, 530 Church St. Ann Arobor, MI 48109

Education

• Ph.D. Applied Mathematics, June 2005 University of California at Irvine. Advisors: Prof. Vittorio Cristini and Prof. John Lowengrub
• M.S. Mathematics, June 1999 Peking University, P.R. China. Advisor: Prof. Pingwen Zhang
• B.S. Mathematics, June 1996 Nanjing University, P.R. China.

Appointments

• Postdoctoral Assistant Professor, September 2006--May 2009, Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan
• Postdoctoral Researcher and Instructor, July 2005 - June 2006, Department of Mathematics, University of California at Irvine

Research

Research Interests:

•    Numerical Methods for Free Boundary Problems

• A movie of interface-aligned mesh simulation of tumor growth
• A movie of interface-aligned mesh simulation of drop shear of Ca=0.5

Publications:

1. S. Sanga, H. B. Frieboes, X. Zheng, R. Gatenby, E. L. Bearer and V. Cristini. Predictive oncology: A review of multidisciplinary, multiscale in silico modeling linking phenotype, morphology and growth. NeuroImage, 37, S120-S134 (2007)
2. H. Frieboes, J.S. Lowengrub, S. Wise, X. Zheng, P. Macklin, E.L. Bearrer and V. Cristini. Computer simulation of glioma growth and morphology. Neuroimage, 37, S59-S70(2007).
3. H. Frieboes, X. Zheng, C.-H. Sun, B. Tromberg, R. Gatenby and V. Cristini. An integrated experimental/computational model of tumor invasion. Cancer Res., 66,1597-1604(2006).
4. C. Lee, J. Lowengrub, J. Rubinstein and X. Zheng. Phase reconstruction by the weighted least action principle. Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics, 8,279-289(2006).
5. X. Yang, A. James, J. Lowengrub, X. Zheng and V. Cristini. An adaptive coupled level-set/volume-of-fluid interface capturing method for unstructured triangular grids. J. Comp. Phys., 217, 364-394(2006).
6. A. Anderson, X. Zheng and V. Cristini. Adaptive unstructured volume remeshing-I: the method. J. Comp. Phys. 208, 616-625(2005).
7. X. Zheng, J. Lowengrub, A. Anderson and V. Cristini. Adaptive unstructured volume remeshing-I: Applications to two- and three-dimensional levelset simulations of multiphase flow. J. Comp. Phys. 208, 625-650(2005).
8. X. Zheng, S.M. Wise and V. Cristini. Nonlinear simulation of tumor necrosis, neo-vascularization and tisse invasion via an adaptive finite-element/level-set method. Bull. Math. Biol. 67, 211-259(2005).
9. J. Sinek, H. Frieboes, X. Zheng and V. Cristini. Two-dimensional simulations of chemotherapy involving nanoparticles demonstrate fundamental transport and tumor response limitations. Biomedical Microdevices 6, 297-309(2004).
10. X. Zheng, S.M. Wise, V. Cristini, J.P. Sinek and H.B. Frieboes. Malignant glioma progression and response to therapy in silico. Proceedings of the Sixth World Congress on Computational Mechanics (Beijing, China, 2004).
11. P. Zhang and X. Zheng. Numerical studies of 2D free surface waves with fixed bottom. J. Comput. Math. 20, no. 4, 391-412(2002).

Teaching Experience

At University of Michigan

• Math 256: Applied Honors Calculus IV, Fall 2008 Click here to go to my course webpage of Math 256
• Math 217: Linear Algebra, winter 2008 and Fall 2007 Click here to go to my course webpage of Math 217
• Math 215:Calc III, Spring 2007
• Math 216:ODE, Winter 2007
• Math 115:Calc I, Fall 2006

At University of Carlifornia at Irvine

• ODE and Numerical Analysis, Fall 2005 and Spring 2006.