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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 “Stochastic Cellular Dynamics” at the SIAM Life Sciences meeting (2010).
• TA for summer school on “Mathematics for Biological Networks” at the University of Victoria (Summer 2010).