Xuenan Li
JU TANG CHU AND WUI PING CHU ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF APPLIED MATHEMATICS IN THE DEPARTMENT OF APPLIED PHYSICS AND APPLIED MATHEMATICS
(office) 284A Engineering Terrace
(mail) 200 S.W. Mudd, MC 4701
New York, NY 10027
Research Interests
Calculus of Variations; Partial Differential Equations; Elasticity Theory; Mechanical metamaterials, particularly in their static and dynamic behaviorI received my B.Sc. in Mathematics and Data Science at University of Michigan (2018). I received my Ph.D. in mathematics under the supervision of Robert V. Kohn at New York University’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences (2023). I am now an Assistant Professor in Applied Mathematics in the Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics at Columbia University.
Select Publications
Some results on the Guest–Hutchinson modes and periodic mechanisms of the Kagome lattice metamaterial, Xuenan Li, and Robert V. Kohn, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 2023.
Research Experience
Research Assistant at Courant Institute, New York University, Aug 2018 - Jun 2023
Professional Experience
Recitation leader and grader at New York University, Sept 2019 - Dec 2022
Professional Affiliations
Member, Association for Women in Mathematics at the Courant Institute, NYU
Member, DEI Reading Group at the Courant Institute, NYU
Honors & Awards
SIAM Student Travel Award, SIAM Annual Meeting (AN22)
Sandra Bleistein Prize, New York University
SIAM Student Travel Award, 10th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM 2023)