Making up of the school of mathematical sciences, the division of applied mathematics consists of a team of academic staff with great vitality earning enormous national and international reputations. We now have 12 members in academic staff, of whom 6 are both professors and advisors, 5 are associate professors, with main research interests involving inverse problems of mathematical physics and its numerical solutions, numerical algebra and computational sciences, numerical solutions of differential equations, large-scale computing and parallel algorithm, and optimization theory with applications. Scholars interested in information and computational sciences are warmly welcome to join us!

Research areas and academic staff
Head of division: GAO Weiguo (professor)
Deputy head of division: LU Shuai (professor)

Inverse problems of mathematical physics
It mainly studies the inverse problems related to mathematical physics in practices, and the numerical solutions of inverse problems and ill-posed problems.
Academic staff (role):
       CHENG Jin (professor, advisor)
       LU Shuai (professor, advisor)

Numerical algebra with applications
This area studies the theory, methods and algorithm of numerical algebra, with an emphasis on its application in other areas, such as system design in microelectronics, probability calculation in finance, and data mining.
Academic staff (role):
       SU Yangfeng (professor, advisor)
       XUE Jungong (professor, advisor)
       WEI Yimin (professor, advisor)

Numerical solutions of differential equations with applications
As a significant mathematical discipline, this area is widely applied in an assortment of disciplines and engineering technology. This area studies finite element methods, coupling of the boundary element and the finite element; domain decomposition, multigrid and multilevel methods; applications in hydrodynamics.
Academic staff (role):
       CHEN Wenbin (professor, advisor)
       WU Xinmin (associate professor)

Large-scale computing and parallel algorithm
The large-scale computing and parallel algorithm mainly include large-scale numerical parallelism and distributed computing, high-order methods and analysis, the designation and development of software for high performance computing, and numerical simulation of financial engineering.
Academic staff (role):
       GAO Weiguo (professor, advisor)
       CHEN Wenbin (professor, advisor)

Optimization theory with applications
It studies the computing problems of stochastic modeling and optimization in application, including the computing problems of queueing theory in electronic communications, the computing of Markov chain in quantitative analysis of credit risk, the stochastic programming, semi-definite programming, and other applications in the investment portfolio analysis and combinatorial optimization.
Academic staff (role):
       XUE Jungong (professor, advisor)
       YANG Weihong (professor, advisor)

Modeling and analysis in applied mathematics
This area mainly deals with analysis and computing of mathematical models related to biomathematics.
Academic staff (role):
       ZHANG Yunxin (professor, advisor)
       ZHANG Shuqin (professor, advisor)