Songping Zhu BS Huazhong (China), MSE PhD MS Michigan Tel: +61 (02) 4221 3807 Fax: +61(02) 4221 4845 Email: songping_zhu@uow.edu.au Postal Address: School of Mathematics and Applied Statistics University of Wollongong Northfields Ave WOLLONGONG NSW 2522 Australia

Graduated from Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Wuhan, China in January of 1982 with a Bachelor of Engineering Mechanics, Dr. Song-Ping Zhu went to the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A., where he earned his Master of Science in Engineering (Applied Mechanics) degree in May, 1985, Master of Science in Applied Mathematics in May, 1988 and Ph.D in Fluid Mechanics in December, 1987. His dissertation entitled Open Channel Flow Near The Resonance Speed was completed under the supervision of Professor C.-S. Yih, who was the Stephen P. Timoshenko University Professor of Fluid Mechanics.

Upon graduating from The University of Michigan, Dr. Song-Ping Zhu took a Research Fellow position at the Centre for Water Research, The University of Western Australia and worked there for two years before moving to the Department of Mathematics, The University of Wollongong, Australia in January, 1991 to take a Lecturer position. He was promoted to a Senior Lecturer at the beginning of 1995 and then to an Associate Professor at the beginning of 1997. He has successfully supervised four honours student (1st class Honours with a university medal), four research master students and four Ph.D students to their graduation.

Having published over 80 papers in international journals and conference proceedings and attracted funding for several research projects from ARC and private industries, Associate Professor Zhu's research interests are primarily in following four dynamically inter-related areas:

Nonlinear Wave Theory, Wave Modelling and Fluid Dynamics:

Studying nonlinear waves generated behind floating and submerged objects and their interactions and using finite element and boundary element methods to model ocean and coastal water waves (reflection, diffraction and refraction) and currents.

Computational Fluid Dynamics and Industrial Modelling:

Developing mathematical models and suitable numerical methods to solve industry-related fluid flow and heat transfer problems, in particular, problems related to the transport of pollutant, the control of water quality and clean-up of the spilled oil in an open ocean.

Computational Mathematics:

Further developing numerical techniques such as boundary element techniques and dual reciprocity boundary element method to solve partial differential equations and singular integral equations.

Computational Finance and Financial Modelling:

Developing numerical techniques suitable for the options and futures price modelling.

Assoc. Professor Zhu was appointed at the beginning of the 1997 as a Principal Research Fell ow in the Department of Civil, Mining and Environmental Engineering. He is also a full member of Centre for Engineering and Industrial Mathematics and an associate member of Geo-Environmental-Mine Engineering Research Centre. He was one of the two co-directors of the 35th Annual Australia-New Zealand Applied Mathematics Conference eld at the Mollymook, NSW in February of 1999.

Updated: 27 January 2006