James Liu: Advising

Faculty adviser for SIAM Student Chapter at Colorado State University (Fall 2010 - Summer 2026)

Advising at ColoState

Advising Currently

Advising for Postdocs and Visiting Scholars

Yuewu Liu, 10/2019--10/2020, Visiting scholar from and returned to Hunan Ag. Univ.
Nolisa Malluwawadu, 04/2018--08/2020, Postdoc in Math Dept.
Jinying Tan (10/2017--09/2018), Visiting scholar from and returned to Huazhong Ag. Univ.

As the Thesis Adviser/Co-adviser

Year of PhD	Name	Thesis Title	1st job	Last Known
2024	Yu Sun (SAMD) (Adviser: Yan V. Li)	Drug release from PLGA nanoparticles	Nano Design
2020	Graham Harper	"Weak Galerkin Finite Element Methods for Elasticity and Coupled Flow Problems"	Postdoc, Sandia National Labs.	(2023) Staff Scientist, Sandia National Labs.
2020	Zhuoran Wang (Co-adviser: Simon Tavener)	"A Two-field Finite Element Solver for Linear Poroelasticity"	Asst. Prof., Zhongshan Univ. (Zhuhai, China)	(2023) Visiting Asst. Prof., University of Kansas
2017	Bahaudin Hashmi (Adviser: Patrick Shipman)		Lecturer, Texas State Univ.	(2022) Asst. Prof., Univ. in Parkistan
2015	Farrah Sadre-Marandi (Co-adviser: Simon Tavener)	"Mathematical Modeling for HIV-1 Viral Capsid Structure and Assembly"	Postdoc., MBI at Ohio State Univ.	(2022) Pharm. Consultant, qPharmetra
2013	Roberto Munoz-Alicea (Co-adviser Simon Tavener)	"HIV-1 Gag Trafficking and Assembly: Mathematical Models and Numerical Simulations"	Academic facilitator, Colorado State Univ.	(2022) Wyoming Comm.College

(2022) M.S., Colin Jensen, "Optimal Transport: Algorithms and Applications"
(2018) M.S., Zhuoran Wang, "Weak Galerkin Finite Element Methods for the Darcy Equation"
(2016) M.S., Jianli Gu, "Mathematical Modeling for Ground Water Anomaly Detection"
(2014) M.S., Bahaudin Hashmi, (Adviser Patrick Shipman) "Modeling of Atmospherically Important Vapor-to-Particle Reactions"
(2008) M.S., Cara Carbone, "Reaction-Diffusion Equations and Their Applications"
(2007) M.S., Rachelle Bar, "Tracking Characteristics on Three-Dimensional Unstructured Tetrahedral Meshes"
(2007) M.S., Rachel Cali, "Locally Divergence-free Polynomial Vector Fields and Their Applications"

As an Advisory Committee Member

(2018) Huishu Li (Ph.D. Env.Eng.)
(2016) Tyler Schott (M.S. Mech.Eng.)
(2015) Mike Mikucki (Ph.D., Math), Nathan Spotts (M.S., Mech.Eng.), Melissa Swager (Ph.D., Math)
(2013) Melissa Swager (M.S., Math), Lori Ziegelmeier (Ph.D., Math)
(2012) Nicholas Rohrbacker (Ph.D., Math) Jaime Shinn (M.S., Math)
(2011) Minjeong Kim (Ph.D., Math, CU Denver)

(2010) Alex Herting (M.E., Civil Eng.), Alan LaMielle (M.S., Comput. Sci.), Tim Walton (M.S., Physics)

(2009) Troy Butler (Ph.D., Math), Krakow Lucas (M.S., Math), Andy Stone (M.S., Comput. Sci.)

Semester/Term Advising

(2022 Summer) Shuhuai Qin (Math, Undergraduate)
(2018 Summer) Sajeeb Chowdhury (Math/CS, Undergraduate) https://github.com/RoySRC/
(2015 Spring) Yiming Xu (Math, Undergraduate)

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