Jiahui Chen

jiahuic@uark.edu

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SCEN 228

Department of Mathematical Sciences

850 W Dickson St #309

University of Arkansas

Fayetteville, AR 72701

I am an assistant professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas. Prior to that I was a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics at Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan working with Prof. Guo-Wei Wei. I have my Ph.D. at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas in 2019, advised by Prof. Weihua Geng.

My studies consist of deep learning, mathematical studies, biology applications, and numerical algorithm developments. I am interested in developing topological and geometric data analysis methods for biology applications at molecular level, and the integration with deep learning and numerical methods. For biology, I am interested in problems of energy predictions of protein-protein interaction (PPI) and energy change predictions of PPI induced by mutations. In addition, I am also interested in fast computing of fast multipole methods (FMM), Treecode, parallel computing, and GPU accelerated computing.

For students, who are interested in my research, please feel free to contact me.

Current Funding Support:

I am currently supported by NSF-DMS 2514195 and NIH-R01 AI164266.

My main research interests:

  • Topological and geometric Data Analysis
  • Treecode and Fast Multipole Method
  • Machine Learning/Deep Learning
  • Numerical PDB; Boundary Element Method
  • Protein-Protein Interaction and Mutation Impacts
  • SARS-CoV-2 virus, vaccine, and antibodies

News

Sep 15, 2025 NSF-DMS 2514195, granted, start Sep. 15th 2025
Aug 12, 2025 10th Annual Meeting of SIAM Central States Section will be held at University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas on October 11-12, 2025. The conference will feature three plenary talks, parallel sessions, and a poster session. I am serving as one of the local organizers. For more details, visit https://siam.uark.edu/.
May 20, 2025 Congrats to our Group member, Emilee Walden, defended her honors thesis and will go to Yale University in Fall 2025
May 15, 2025 Connor Faculty Fellowship, University of Arkansas, May 2025
Apr 15, 2025 Outstanding mentor, University of Arkansas, April 2025
Feb 15, 2025 Congrats to Fer Mayorga Echeverria, Office of Undergraduate Research Grant awards, February 2025
Apr 15, 2024 Outstanding mentor, University of Arkansas, April 2024
Mar 15, 2024 Congrats to our Group member, Emilee Walden, named Goldwater
Jan 15, 2024 Arkansas Biosciences Institute grant, Spring 2024
Sep 15, 2023 Faculty Equipment and Technology Grant from the Honors College, Fall 2023
Aug 21, 2023 Start my first class (MATH 3583) at the University of Arkansas
Jun 12, 2023 Join the workshop on ICERM at Brown University
Oct 8, 2022 Join the workshop on Scientific Computing at Purdue University
Jul 10, 2022 Join the SIAM annual meeting 2022
Jun 8, 2022 A visiting at University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
May 20, 2022 Methodology-Centered Review of Molecular Modeling, Simulation, and Prediction of SARS-CoV-2 is published at Chemical Review
Jan 4, 2022 A third-party YouTuber introduce our work about SARS-CoV-2 (link)
Sep 4, 2020 Mutations strengthened SARS-CoV-2 infectivity is published at Journal of Molecular Biology
Aug 8, 2020 The de Rham–Hodge analysis and modeling of biomolecules is published at Bulletin of Mathematical Biology
Dec 28, 2019 Evolutionary de Rham-Hodge method is posted on arXiv (arXiv.1912.12388)
Aug 7, 2019 A new start at Michigan State University, East Lansing