Department of Mathematics
Directory
Yi Sun
Title: | Professor |
Department: | Mathematics College of Arts and Sciences |
Email: | yisun@math.sc.edu |
Phone: | 803-777-7636 |
Office: | LeConte 317 |
Office Hours: | T Th: 10:00AM - 11:30AM |
Resources: | My Website |
Research Interests
- Multiscale analysis, modeling and simulation in solids, fluid mechanics, chemistry and biology
- Mathematical modeling and computation of biomaterials, complex biofluids, and cellular dynamics
- Mathematical and computational neuroscience: dynamical system and chaos in neuronal networks
- Network dynamics and flows: modeling, analysis and simulation for traffic flow.
Education
- Ph.D. in Applied and Computation Mathematics, Princeton University (2006)
- M.S. in Computational Mathematics, Peking University (2002)
- B.S. in Computational Mathematics, Peking University (2002)
Experience
- Professor, University of South Carolina (2021 – present)
- Associate Professor, University of South Carolina (2015 – 2020)
- Assistant Professor, University of South Carolina (2011 – 2015)
- NSF Joint Institutes' Postdoc, Statistical & Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute (2009 – 2011)
- Research Scientist, Courant Institute, NYU (206 – 2009)
Courses Taught
- MATH 141: Calculus I
- MATH 142: Calculus II
- MATH 241: Vector Calculus
- MATH 242: Elemetary Differential Equations
- MATH 344: Applied Linear Algebra
- MATH 520: Ordinary Differential Equations
- MATH 524: Nonlinear Optimization
- MATH 526: Numerical Linear Algebra
- MATH 527: Numerical Analysis
- MATH 544: Linear Algebra
- MATH 708: Foundations of Computational Mathematics I
- MATH 709: Foundations of Computational Mathematics II
Selected Publications
- Yi Sun, Simulations of bi-direction pedestrian flow using kinetic Monte Carlo methods, Physica A, 524 (2019), pp. 519–531.
- Yi Sun, Kinetic Monte Carlo simulations of two-dimensional pedestrian flow models, Physica A, 505 (2018), pp.836–847.
- E. Bulanova, E. Koudan, J. Degosserie, C. Heymans, F. Pereira, V. Parfenov, Yi Sun, Qi Wang, S. Akhmedova, I. Sviridova, N. Sergeeva, G. Frank, Y. Khesuani, C. Pierreux, V. Mironov,Bioprinting of a functional vascularized mouse thyroid gland construct, Biofabrication, 9 (2017), pp.034105.
- Yi Sun, Qi Wang, In-silico analysis on 3D biofabrication using kinetic Monte Carlo simulations, Advances in Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, 2 (2017), pp.00045.
- Yi Sun, Xiaofeng Yang, Qi Wang, In-silico analysis on biofabricating vascular networks using kinetic Monte Carlo simulations, Biofabrication, 6 (2014), pp.015008.
- Pierre Gremaud, Yi Sun, Numerical study of singularity formation in relativistic Euler flows, Communications in Computational Physics, 16 (2014), pp.348–364.
- Yi Sun, Ilya Timofeyev, Kinetic Monte Carlo simulations of 1D and 2D traffic flows: Comparison of two look-ahead rules, Physical Review E, 89 (2014), pp.052810.
- Yi Sun, Qi Wang, Modeling and simulations of multicellular aggregate self-assembly in biofabrication using kinetic Monte Carlo methods, Soft Matter, 9 (2013), pp.2172–2186.
- Yi Sun, Aaditya V. Rangan, Douglas Zhou, David Cai, Coarse-grained event tree analysis for quantifying Hodgkin-Huxley neuronal network dynamics, Journal of Computational Neuroscience, 32 (2012), pp.55–72.
- Yi Sun, Russel Caflisch, Bjorn Engquist, A multiscale method for epitaxial growth, SIAM Multiscale Model. Simul., 9 (2011), pp.335–354.