Jianfeng Lu, Professor

Jianfeng Lu

Jianfeng Lu is an applied mathematician interested in mathematical analysis and algorithm development for problems from computational physics, theoretical chemistry, materials science and other related fields.

More specifically, his current research focuses include:
Electronic structure and many body problems; quantum molecular dynamics; multiscale modeling and analysis; rare events and sampling techniques.

Office Location:  242 Physics Bldg, 120 Science Drive, Durham, NC 27708
Office Phone:  (919) 660-2875
Email Address: send me a message
Web Page:  http://www.math.duke.edu/~jianfeng/

Teaching (Spring 2024):

Office Hours:

By email appointments
Education:

Ph.D.Princeton University2009
BSPeking University2005
Specialties:

Applied Math
Research Interests:

Mathematical analysis and algorithm development for problems from
computational physics, theoretical chemistry, materials science and others.

More specifically:
Electronic structure and many body problems;
Multiscale modeling and analysis; and
Rare events and sampling techniques.

Areas of Interest:

Applied Mathematics
Partial Differential Equations
Probability
Numerical Analysis
Scientific Computing

Current Ph.D. Students  

Postdocs Mentored

Undergraduate Research Supervised

Recent Publications

  1. Li, X; Pura, J; Allen, A; Owzar, K; Lu, J; Harms, M; Xie, J, DYNATE: Localizing rare-variant association regions via multiple testing embedded in an aggregation tree., Genetic Epidemiology, vol. 48 no. 1 (February, 2024), pp. 42-55 [doi]  [abs]
  2. Jing, Y; Chen, J; Li, L; Lu, J, A Machine Learning Framework for Geodesics Under Spherical Wasserstein–Fisher–Rao Metric and Its Application for Weighted Sample Generation, Journal of Scientific Computing, vol. 98 no. 1 (January, 2024) [doi]  [abs]
  3. Wang, Z; Zhang, Z; Lu, J; Li, Y, Coordinate Descent Full Configuration Interaction for Excited States., Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, vol. 19 no. 21 (November, 2023), pp. 7731-7739 [doi]  [abs]
  4. Cao, Y; Lu, J; Wang, L, On Explicit L2 -Convergence Rate Estimate for Underdamped Langevin Dynamics, Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis, vol. 247 no. 5 (October, 2023) [doi]  [abs]
  5. Lu, J; Wu, Y; Xiang, Y, Score-based Transport Modeling for Mean-Field Fokker-Planck Equations, vol. 503 (April, 2023) [doi]  [abs]
Recent Grant Support