Jiu Ding

Jiu Ding received the Ph.D. degree in applied mathematics from Michigan State University, USA in 1990 after receiving his B.S. and M.S. degrees in computational mathematics from Nanjing University, China in 1982 and 1984, respectively. Upon graduation, he joined the Department of Mathematics at the University of Southern Mississippi, and was promoted to the rank of Full Professor in 1999. He has published about 70 research papers on more than 25 international refereed journals in the areas of ergodic theory of chaos, mathematical programming, linear algebra, operator theory, and mathematical education. His current research interests include applications of chaos theory to wireless communications and meshless methods in scientific computing. He is a co-author of a recent text titled Statistical Properties of Deterministic Systems, Tsinghua University Press, 2006. He received a University Research Award, a University Teaching Award, and a University Grand Marshal Award, all from the University of Southern Mississippi, and a Second Prize from the Chinese Composition Competition at the First Reading Festival of Jiangsu Province, China. He is a member of the editorial committee for the journal, Numerical Mathematics.