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Zecheng Gan (干则成)

Advanced Materials Thrust (GZ) and Department of Mathematics (CWB)
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Contact

E-mail(s): zechenggan@ust.hk; and zechenggan@hkust-gz.edu.cn
Office: W1-505

Research interests

Scientific Computing, Applied Mathematics, Electromagnetics, Hydrodynamics, Data-driven and Machine Learning methods for Science & Engineering.

Openings

I am currently looking for highly self-motivated students and postdocs interested in scientific computing, applied & computational math, data-driven and machine learning methods, with applications in science & engineering. Please email a CV to apply.

Short bio

Tenure-track Assistant Professor (2021.09-now)
Advanced Materials Thrust, Function Hub, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (GZ).
Assistant Professor (joint appointment) (2022.07-now)
Department of Mathematics, School of Science, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (CWB).
Affiliate Assistant Professor (2021.09-2022.06)
Department of Mathematics, School of Science, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (CWB).
Postdoc associate (2019.08-2021.08)
Advisor: Prof. Aleksandar Donev
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University.
Postdoc assistant professor (2016.09-2019.07)
Advisors: Profs. Robert Krasny and Weihua Geng
Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Ph.D. in Mathematics (2016.06)
Advisor: Prof. Zhenli Xu
Department of Mathematics and Institute of Natural Sciences, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
B.S. in Mechanical Engineering (2010.06)
School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Detailed CV: available upon request.

News and Events

Research

2025.02 Collaborative paper with Prof. Ho-Kei Chan’s group (physics, HIT-SZ) “Mechanisms of electrostatic interactions between two charged dielectric spheres inside a polarizable medium: An effective-dipole analysis” published on Soft Matter, and selected as Journal Cover (Featured article).
2025.01 Collaborative paper with Prof. Zhenli Xu’s group (math, SJTU) “Fast algorithm for quasi-2D Coulomb systems” published on J. Comput. Phys.
2024.07 Paper “Broken symmetries in quasi-2D charged systems via negative dielectric confinement” published on J. Chem. Phys.
2024.07 Collaborative paper with Prof. Rui Zhang’s group (physics, HKUST) “Interplay of chemotactic force, Peclet number, and dimensionality dictates the dynamics of auto-chemotactic chiral active droplets” published on J. Chem. Phys.
2024.01 We are funded by Guangzhou-HKUST(GZ) Joint research fund.
2023.07 Collaborative paper with Prof. Aleks Donev’s group (Courant institute, NYU) “Computing hydrodynamic interactions in confined doubly periodic geometries in linear time” published on J. Chem. Phys.
2023.01 We are funded by Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation.
2022.09 We are funded by National Science Foundation of China.
2022.07 We are funded by Guangzhou Basic and applied basic research Foundation.
2021.02 Paper “Harmonic Surface Mapping Algorithm for Electrostatic Potentials in an Atomistic/Continuum Hybrid Model for Electrolyte Solutions” published on Commun. Comput. Phys.
2020.01 Paper “Efficient dynamic simulations of charged dielectric colloids through a novel hybrid method” selected as JCP Editor’s Choice 2019.

Group

2025.02 Yilin Li, currently undergraduate in math at Nankai University, joined the group as a research intern. Welcome, Yilin!
2024.11 Yanqiao (Marvel) Li, graduate from CUHK-SZ (Nobel class), joined the group as a research assistant. Welcome, Marvel!
2024.09 Kaiwen Jin, graduate from Nankai University (Math), joined the group as a PhD candidate (co-supervising with Prof. Jin-Guo Liu). Welcome, Kaiwen!
2024.09 Xuanyan Chen, graduate from the red bird master (RBM) program, HKUST(GZ), joined the group as a PhD candidate. Welcome, Xuanyan!
2024.02 I am co-supervising red bird MPhil (RBM) student Lingchuan Tan. Welcome, Lingchuan!
2024.02 Qian (Serena) Hou, graduate from Shanghai Normal University(Statistics), joined the group as a PhD candidate. Welcome, Serena!
2023.09 I am supervising red bird MPhil (RBM) student Shiyi Bai. Welcome, Shiyi!
2023.09 I am co-supervising Fintech PhD student Zichun Wang. Welcome, Zichun!
2023.09 Weitao Lan, graduate from Peking University(CS), joined the group as a PhD candidate. Welcome, Weitao!
2023, summer Zhuoma Wang, PhD student from HKUST (MAE department), joined the group as a cross-campus exchange student. Welcome, Zhuoma!
2022.09 Yanyu Duan, graduate from HIT-SZ(physics), joined the group as a PhD candidate. Welcome, Yanyu!
2022.09 Tianhao Hu, undergraduate from Wuhan University (school of mathematical science), joined the group as a PhD candidate. Welcome, Tianhao!
2022, summer Wenjun Li, incoming red bird MPhil student, joined the group as a research intern. Welcome, Wenjun!
2022, summer Yue Fang, PhD student from HKUST (CBE department), joined the group as a cross-campus exchange student. Welcome, Yue!
2022.02 Zheng (Johnson) Yang, graduate from University of Manchester, joined the group as a PhD candidate. Welcome, Johnson!
2021.10 I am co-advising MPhil student Wing Chun (Kyle) Chan with Prof. Rui Zhang. Welcome, Kyle!
2021.10 I am co-advising PhD candidate Jiayi Wang (Chemical Engineering) with Prof. Ping Gao. Welcome, Jiayi!
2021.09 Xuanzhao Gao, undergraduate from USTC (school of gifted young), joined the group as a PhD candidate. Welcome, Xuanzhao!

Events and Activities

2025.01 Z. Gan is giving an invited popular science lecture on “Materials science & AI” to Puning experimental high school students.
2025.01 Z. Gan is co-organizing the “6th Greater Bay Area Soft Matter and Life Matter Forum” together with Profs. Weijia Wen (Chair), Penger Tong, Xiakun Chu, Rui Zhang, Qin Xu et al.
2024.12 Z. Gan is giving an invited talk at the “Workshop on mathematics for science and engineering”, SJTU
2024.12 Z. Gan is giving an invited talk at the “Workshop on applied and computational mathematics”, Guangdong University of Technology
2024.12 Z. Gan is giving an invited talk at the “Workshop on scientific computing and machine learning”, SJTU
2024.11 Z. Gan is co-organizing (and also giving a talk) at the “Cross-Campus Workshop on Chemistry and Materials Reasearch” together with Prof. Gao (Chair), et al.
2024.10 Z. Gan is co-organizing the outreach activity “math source tour at UIC” together with UG student Guofu Tang and Prof. Yi-lung Kuo.
2024.10 Z. Gan is giving an invited talk at the CSIAM annual conference, Nanjing.
2024.10 Organizer, Public talk on “Successful publishing with ACS and Nano Letters”; Speaker: Prof. Elena Besley (Head of Materials Chemistry, University of Nottingham; and Associate editor at Nano Letters).
2024.10 Z. Gan is organizing a miniworkshop on “Electrostatics in Advanced Materials (2024)” together with Profs. Ho-Kei Chan. Invited speakers: Profs. Elena Besley (University of Nottingham), Rene Messina (University of Lorraine), Decai Huang (NJUST), etc. on the newsletter of Institute of Physics (IOP), 2024 winter.
2024.08 Z. Gan is giving an invited talk at the Conference of Scientific Machine Learning (CSML2024), Shanghai.
2024.08 Z. Gan is giving an invited talk at the Joint Annual Conference of Physical Societies in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, Macao
2024.07 Z. Gan is giving an invited talk at the International Conference on Scientific Computation and Differential Equations (SciCADE2024), National University of Singapore
2024.06 Z. Gan is giving an invited talk at the East Asia Section of SIAM (EASIAM 2024), University of Macau
2023.12 Z. Gan is giving an invited talk at the Quantum Materials & Materials Informatics Symposium.
2023.11 Z. Gan is organizing the minisymposium on “Modeling and Simulation for Materials Science and Deep Learning”, EASIAM 2024, together with Prof. Yuqing Li (SJTU).
2023.11 Z. Gan is co-organizing the “Cross-Campus Workshop on Biology,Energy and Materials” together with Prof. Gao, et al.
2023.09 Z. Gan is organizing a miniworkshop on “Electrostatics in Advanced Materials” together with Profs. Ho-Kei Chan and Xiaoxiao Wu. Invited speakers: Rene Messina (University of Lorraine), Erdal C. Oğuz(Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences), etc.
2023.08 Z. Gan is co-organizing a minisymposium on “Simulations and Algorithm Development in Materials Science” at the ICIAM 2023 conference in Tokyo, Japan.
2023.08 Z. Gan is giving an invited talk at the Workshop on “Recent Advances in Fast algorithms”, SICIAM, CUHK(SZ)
2023.07 We are glad to have Prof. Qingtang Su (from Morningside center of Mathematics) visiting us, and giving an invited talk on analysis of free-surface problems in fluid mechanics.
2023.07 We are glad to have Prof. Bowei (Bobbie) Wu (from Univ. of Massachusetts, Lowell) visiting us, and giving an invited talk on quadrature methods for integral equations.
2023.06 Z. Gan is giving an invited talk at Mathematics in Action (MiA2023): Modeling and Analysis in Biology and Material Sciences, SJTU
2023.06 Z. Gan is giving an invited talk at the Symposium on Applied Mathematics and Computational Mathematics, Sun Yat-Sen University
2023.03 PhD candidates Y. Duan, Johnson Yang and Xuanzhao Gao are giving a talk at APS march meeting (virtual sessions)
2022.12 X. Gao is giving a poster at the “Math Day in the Great Bay Area” event
2022.11 Z. Gan is giving an invited talk at the minisymposium on “Optimization algorithms for data science”, CSIAM annual meeting
2022.10 Z. Gan is giving a talk at the Materials informatics seminar series, Guangzhou key lab of materials informatics
2022.10 Z. Gan is giving an invited talk at the Scientific computing workshop, CUHK(SZ) and Shenzhen research institute of big data
2022.09 Z. Gan is giving an invited talk on the CSIAM annual meeting, at the symposium on “Optimization algorithms for data science”
2022.01 Z. Gan is giving an invited talk on the workshop “Machine Learning and Data-Driven Scientific Computing”, BNU-UIC (Cancelled due to COVID)
2021.11 Z. Gan is giving an Applied Mathematics Seminar, Shenzhen International Center for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
2021.07 Z. Gan is giving an invited talk on SIAM annual meeting (virtually), minisymposium on “Numerical Methods for Incompressible Fluid Systems”
2021.06 Z. Gan is giving an invited talk on the workshop “Advances in numerical methods, theories and applications”, CUHK(SZ)
2021.02 Z. Gan is giving an invited talk on the Engineering Sciences Youth Forum, College of Engineering, PKU
2021.01 Z. Gan is invited to talk on the Mathematical Research Seminar Series, Zu Chongzhi Center for Mathematics and Computational Sciences, Duke University (Kunshan)
2020.12 Z. Gan is giving a Computational and Applied Mathematics (CAM) seminar, School of Mathematical Sciences, PKU
2020.10 Z. Gan (with Ondrej Maxian, parter: Aleksandar Donev) is giving a virtual MSG seminar at Courant Institute, NYU
2019.12 Z. Gan is giving an invited talk on the 2019 Applied Math Youth Forum, Shool of Mathematical Sciences and BICMR, PKU