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Cheng Ly
Citizenship: USA
Work Experience
- Postdoctoral Fellow with Brent Doiron at
the University of Pittsburgh, August 2010 – TBD.
- NSF Mathematical Sciences
Postdoctoral Research Fellow (MSPRF),
August 2007 -- July 2010 with Bard Ermentrout.
Education
- Ph.D. Mathematics, Courant Institute (NYU), May 2007. Advisor: Dan Tranchina.
- M.S. Mathematics, Courant
Institute (NYU), September 2004.
- B.S. Applied Mathematics, UCLA, June 2002.
Honors
- NSF Mathematical Sciences
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (MSPRF), 2007-2010.
- NDSEG (DoD) Fellowship, Courant
Institute, 2003-2006.
- MacCracken Fellowship,
Courant Institute, 2002-2007.
- NSF Graduate Research
Fellowship (GRFP) Honorable Mention, 2003.
- Phi Beta Kappa, National Honor
Society, Eta of California, 2002.
- Summa Cum Laude, Highest
Departmental Honors, College Honors, UCLA, 2002.
- Sherwood Prize, UCLA, 2002.
Litton Scholarship, UCLA, 2001.
- Harbison
Scholarship (full), UCLA, 1998-2002.
Service
- Referee for: SIAM Journal on
Applied Dynamical Systems [1], Journal of Computational Neuroscience [4],
Neural Computation [1], Journal of Mathematical Biology [1].
- Organizer for minisymposium
on ÒStochastic Cellular DynamicsÓ at the SIAM Life Sciences meeting
(2010).
- TA for summer school on
ÒMathematics for Biological NetworksÓ at the University of Victoria
(Summer 2010).