Biography:Mimi Dai
Mimi Dai | |
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| Alma mater | University of California, Santa Cruz |
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| Fields | Mathematics |
| Doctoral advisor | Maria Elena Schonbek |
Mimi Dai is a mathematician who specializes in partial differential equations, fluid dynamics, and complex fluids. She is a professor at the University of Illinois Chicago.[1]
Education and career
Dai received her PhD in applied mathematics from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2012. Her dissertation, Nematic liquid crystal systems and magneto-hydrodynamics system: The properties of their solutions, was supervised by her advisor, Maria E. Schonbek.[2] She is currently an associate professor for the Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science at the University of Illinois Chicago.[3] She specializes in partial differential equations, fluid dynamics, complex fluids.
Awards and honors
Dai became an American Mathematical Society (AMS) Centennial Fellow in 2022.[4] In 2021 Dai also became an Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) von Neuman Fellow in 2021.[5] Dai has been an IAS Scholar since 2022.[6] In 2018 Dai was awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant for Mathematical Studies of Magnetohydrodynamic Flows with Hall Effect,[7] and another grant from the NSF for Mathematical Analysis of Magnetohydrodynamic Flows with Hall Effect in 2020.[8]
References
- ↑ "Mimi Dai receives 2022-2023 AMS Centennial Fellowship | Dept of Math, Stat, & Comp Sci | University of Illinois Chicago" (in en-US). https://mscs.uic.edu/news-stories/mimi-dai-receives-2022-2023-ams-centennial-fellowship/.
- ↑ Mimi Dai at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ "mdai | Dept of Math, Stat, & Comp Sci | University of Illinois Chicago" (in en-US). https://mscs.uic.edu/profiles/mdai/.
- ↑ "Mimi Dai Awarded 2022 AMS Centennial Fellowship - IAS News | Institute for Advanced Study" (in en). 2022-02-23. https://www.ias.edu/news/2022/mimi-dai-ams-centennial-fellow.
- ↑ "von Neumann Fellow | Institute for Advanced Study" (in en). https://www.ias.edu/scholar-type/von-neumann-fellow.
- ↑ "Mimi Dai - Scholars | Institute for Advanced Study" (in en). 2021-01-27. https://www.ias.edu/scholars/mimi-dai.
- ↑ "NSF Award Search: Award # 1815069 - Mathematical Studies of Magnetohydrodynamics with Hall Effect" (in en). https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1815069&HistoricalAwards=false.
- ↑ "NSF Award Search: Award # 2009422 - Mathematical Analysis of Magnetohydrodynamic Flows with Hall Effect" (in en). https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2009422&HistoricalAwards=false.
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