Education:

• Sep. 2007–Now:         Master Student in Biostatistics

  School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, USA

• Sep. 2004-Now:          PhD Student in Applied Mathematica

  School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota, USA
  Research Interests: Finite Element Simulation of Elastomers and Gels, Numerical Analysis

  Thesis Advisor: Prof. Carme Calderer

• Sep. 2000-July 2003:  M.S. in Computational Mathematica

  School of Mathematics, Peking University, China
  Thesis: Study of Liquid Crystal Polymers under Shear Flow using Finite Element Method

  Thesis Advisor: Prof. Pingwen Zhang

• Sep.1996-July 2000:  B.S. in Computational Mathematica

  School of Mathematics, Peking University, China
  Thesis: Finite Element Simulation of Martensite Alloy

  Thesis Advisor: Prof. Zhiping Li

• Sep. 2005-Now: Teaching Assistant

  School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota, USA

• Nov. 2003-Aug.2004: Software Engineer

  Computerized Medical System, Shanghai Office, China
  

• Programming Languages:

  C/C++, Fortran, Matlab, Mathematica, MPI, FEniCS, SAS, R, Python, BASH etc.

• Tools: Excel, LaTeX, Tecplot etc.

• Operating Systems: Windows, UNIX/Linux etc.
  

Interests:

Running, Taekwondo, Ice Skating, Skiing

Publications:

• Chong Luo, Hui Zhang and Pingwen Zhang, The structure of equilibrium solutions of one-dimensional Doi equation, Nonlinearity, 18, pp379-389, (2005)

• Ruo Li, Chong Luo and Pingwen Zhang, Numerical Simulation of Doi Model of Polymeric Fluids, Advances in Scientific Computing and Applications, Edited by Yayan, Weiwei Sun and Tao Tang, pp258-273(2004)