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Yanlai Chen received his B.S. degree in Mathematics from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), in 2002, M.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from Department of Computer Science and Engineering , and Ph.D. in Mathematics from School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota, in 2007. Prof. Cockburn, Bernardo was his thesis advisor. He then worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher supervised by Prof. Hesthaven Jan and Prof. Maday, Yvon at Brown University. Dr. Chen joined Department of Mathematics, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth in August 2010, as an Assistant Professor in Mathematics. He was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in September 2016, and to Full Professor in September 2021.

Dr. Chen's administrative experience includes serving as a Co-Graduate Program Director of the Engineering and Applied Science program since September 2020, and as a Co-Director of the Center for Scientific Computing and Data Science Research from January to July of 2022.

Outside of work and spending time with his family, Dr. Chen enjoys serving his communities and running. He finished Boston Marathon in 2023 with a time 3:04:41.
Research Interest:

  • Numerical Analysis, Scientific Computing, Computational Partial Differential Equations
  • Dimension reduction, Data mining, Machine Learning, Data visualization
  • 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

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