Professional Preparation

Peking University, Computational Mathematics, B.S. 1982

Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, Mathematics, Ph.D. 1987 (Adviser: R. Temam)

Indiana University, Applied Mathematics, PostDoc and Visiting Assistant Professor (8/1987 – 7/1991)

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Professional Appointments

Aug. 1991 – July 2001: Assistant, Associate, Full Professor, Department of Mathematics, The Pennsylvania State University.

Aug. 2001 – July 2002: Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Central Florida.

Jan. 2012 – Dec. 2022: Director, Center for Computational and Applied Mathematics, Purdue University.

Aug. 2002 – June 2023: Professor, Department of Mathematics, Purdue University.

July 2023 – Aug. 2023 Distinguished Professor, Department of Mathematics, Purdue University.

May 2023 – Chair Professor, Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo

Guest Professorship

July 2002 – : Guest Chair Professor, School of Mathematical Sciences, Xiamen University, China.

Research Interests: numerical analysis, applied mathematics, scientific computing.

Selected Honors and Awards

• 2025 Frontiers of Science Award by the International congress of Basic Science.

• Distinguished Paper Award by the International Consortium of Chinese Mathematicians, for the paper “A new class of efficient and robust energy stable schemes for gradient flows,   SIAM Review, 61:474-506, 2019, authored by Jie Shen, Jie Xu and Jiang Yang” which is one of the three papers to win the award in 2024.

• Fellow of the Chinese Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (CSIAM), class of 2024.

• Ranked #4 in the world for the single year (2024) impact and #9 in the world for the career impact in the field of Numerical and Computational Mathematics by the Stanford Rating of World's Top Scientists.

• Ranked #170 in the ranking released by Research.com in Jan 2022 of Top Mathematics Scientists in the World:

https://research.com/scientists-rankings/mathematics

• Member of the Selection Committee for Section 15 (Numerical Analysis) of 2022 International Congress of Mathematics.

• Fellow of Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), class of 2020.

• Fellow of American Mathematical Society (AMS), class of 2017.

• (Inaugural) Research Award, College of Science, Purdue University, 2013.

• Fulbright Award: McGill University Research Chair in Computational Methods for Partial Differential Equations, 2008.

Advising and mentoring:

Supervised more than twenty Ph.D theses, and a large number of postdocs and visiting scholars.

Selected Professional Service:

Member of the editorial boards:

• Co-editor-in-chief: Journal of Mathematical Study, 2014 —

• CSIAM Transaction on Applied Mathematics, 2020 —

• Communications in Applied Mathematics and Computation, 2019 —

• Applied Numerical Mathematics, 2015 —

• Communications in Mathematical Science, 2015 —

• Journal of Scientific Computing, 2009 —

• Mathematics of Computation, Jan. 2005 — Jan. 2016

• Communications in Computational Physics, 2005 —

• International Journal of Numerical Analysis and Modeling, 2004 —

• Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems, Series B, 2001 —

Selected professional appointments:

• Member of the Scientific Committee for the Conference Series: International Conference on High-Order and Spectral Methods (ICOSAHOM), 2014 —

• Vice-President of the International Association of Mathematics and Computers in Simulation (IMACS), 2016—

Publications:

Published three books and over 280 papers, most of which are in premier journals, including over eighty papers published in the most prestigious journals of numerical analysis and scientific computing: SIAM Review, Found. Comp. Math., Math. Comp., SIAM J. Numer. Anal., SIAM J. Sci. Comput., Numer. Math.
 
Citations:
• In Google Scholar ≥ 30, 000
• In Web of Science ≥ 18, 000
• In MathSciNet ≥ 12, 000
 
H-index:
• In Google Scholar: 81
• In Web of Science: 68
• In MathSciNet: 53

A complete list of my publications (most are downloadable):

https://www.math.purdue.edu/~shen7/publist.html

Google Scholar：

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=6Rl6La8AAAAJ&hl=en

Web of Knowledge：

https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/1818595

10 Representative Works：

1. Fukeng Huang and Jie Shen. Stability and error analysis of a second order consistent splitting scheme for the Navier-Stokes equations. SIAM J. Numer. Anal. 61:2408-2433, 2023.

2. Jie Shen, Jie Xu. Unconditional positivity preserving and energy dissipative schemes for Poisson-Nernst-Planck equations, Numer. Math. 148 (3), 671-697, 2021.

3. Jie Shen, Jie Xu and Jiang Yang. A new class of efficient and robust energy stable schemes for gradient flows. SIAM Review, 61:474-506, 2019. 

4. Sheng Chen, Jie Shen and Li-Lian Wang. Generalized Jacobi functions and their applications to fractional differential equations. Math. Comp. 85:1603-1638, 2016. 

5. J Shen, X Yang. A phase-field model and its numerical approximation for two-phase incompress- ible flows with different densities and viscosities. SIAM J. Sci. Comput. 32:1159-1179, 2010. 

6. J.L. Guermond, P. Minev and Jie Shen. An Overview of projection methods for incompressible flows. Comput. Methods Appl. Mech. Eng. 195:6011-6045, 2006. 

7. Chun Liu and Jie Shen. A Phase field model for the mixture of two incompressible fluids and its approximation by a Fourier-spectral method. Physica D. 179:211-228, 2003. 

8. L.Q. Chen and Jie Shen. Applications of semi-implicit Fourier-spectral method to phase-field equations. Comput. Phys. Comm., 108:147–158, 1998. 

9. Jie Shen. Efficient spectral-Galerkin method I. direct solvers for second- and fourth-order equa- tions by using Legendre polynomials. SIAM J. Sci. Comput., 15:1489–1505, 1994. 

10. Jie Shen. On error estimates of the projection methods for the Navier-Stokes equations: first-order schemes. SIAM J. Numer. Anal., 29:57–77, 1992.