Fengyan Li
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Fengyan Li is an applied mathematician. She specializes in numerical analysis and scientific computing, and especially in Galerkin methods for magnetohydrodynamics and related problems in computational fluid dynamics including Maxwell's equations and Eikonal equations. Educated in China and the US, she works in the US as a professor of applied mathematics at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.[1]
Li was a student at Peking University, where she received a bachelor's degree in 1997 and a master's degree in 2000. Next, she came to Brown University for doctoral study in mathematics, and completed her Ph.D. in 2004.[1] Her dissertation, On Locally Divergence-Free Discontinuous Galerkin Methods, was supervised by Chi-Wang Shu.[2]
After postdoctoral research at the University of South Carolina, Li joined the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2006.[1] She received a Sloan Research Fellowship in 2008,[3] and a National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2009.[4]
