Research Foci



Computation Biology and Bioinformatics
- Computational structural biology
- Bioinformatics
- Computational neuroscience models of multi-sensory integration and motion sickness
Computational Fluid Dynamics and Soft-Matter Simulation
- Multi-scale phenomena at fluid-solid interfaces
- Kinetic methods for continuum and near-continuum flows
- Multi-scale coupled circulation-ecosystem simulation in the ocean
- Supersonic convection and radiation-convection transition in astrophysics
- Large-scale flow structures and their effects in turbulent thermal convection
- Phase transitions in colloids
Computation Material Science
- Discovery and design of wave-functional meta-materials and photonics crystals
- Catalyst design
- First principles and phenomenological modelling of nanomaterial
- Spin dynamics in nanostructures
- Dislocation dynamics
Efficient High-Performance Computing Systems
- Energy and cost efficient computing systems
- Merged scale-up and scale-out computing systems for HPCs and data centers
Environmental and Atmospheric Modeling
- Real-time air quality analysis
- Development of an operational air quality prediction system
- Numerical investigation of air pollutant inception: the role of humidity
- Collisions and diffusion of water clusters on hydrophilic and hydrophobic surfaces for chip / device cooling
- Multiscale simulation of thermal conductivity of nano materials for thermal management
High Performance Computing and Data Analysis
- High-performance deep learning
- Big data analytics
Information Statistical Physics and Big Data Analysis on Networks
- Stability, reliability and robustness of power grids
- Social network: dynamics of opinion formation and community detection
- Random walk and games
- Analysis of big data using evolution computation and quantum genetic algorithm
- Agent dynamics and artificial life in econophysics