Education

• Brown University, 1989, Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics
• University of Science and Technology, China, 1985, M.S. in Applied Mathematics
• University of Science and Technology, China, 1982, B.S. in Mathematics

Work experiences

• Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of North Carolina at Charlotte 8/89-7/94
• Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of North Carolina at Charlotte 7/94-7/99
• Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of North Carolina at Charlotte 7/99-present
• Assistant Professor V (off-scale), Department of Mathematics, University of California at Santa Barbara 1/95-8/96
• Associate Professor II (off-scale), Department of Mathematics, University of California at Santa Barbara 9/96

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• Zhenzhu Chen, Sihong Shao, and Wei Cai, A high order efficient numerical method for 4-D Wigner equation of quantum double-slit interferences, J. Comput. Phys. 396, 54 (2019)
• Haiyan Jiang, Tiao Lu, and Wei Cai, A device adaptive inflow boundary condition for Wigner equations of quantum transport, J. Comput. Phys. 258, 773 (2014)
• Sihong Shao, Tiao Lu, and Wei Cai, Adaptive conservative cell average spectral element methods for transient Wigner equation in quantum transport, Commun. Comput. Phys 9, 711 (2011)
• Haiyan Jiang,Wei Cai, and Raphael Tsu, Accuracy of the Frensley inflow boundary condition for Wigner equations in simulating resonant tunneling diodes, J. Comput. Phys. 230, 2031 (2011)
• Haiyan Jiang and Wei Cai, Effect of boundary treatments on quantum transport current in the Green’s function and Wigner distribution methods for a nano-scale DG-MOSFET, J. Comput. Phys. 229, 4461 (2010)

Clements Chair of Applied Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, Southern Methodist University, USA

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