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Journal Publications

Mathematical Biology

• Zhuolin Qu*, Denis Patterson*, Lauren Childs, Christina Edholm, Joan Ponce, Olivia Prosper, and Lihong Zhao
  

  Modeling Immunity to Malaria with an Age-Structured PDE Framework *denotes equal contribution  
  SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, 83.3, (2023), 1098-1125.
  

• Daniela Florez, Alyssa Young, Kerlly J. Bernabe, James M. Hyman, and Zhuolin Qu
  

  Modeling sustained transmission of Wolbachia among Anopheles mosquitoes: Implications for malaria control in Haiti
  Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 8(3), (2023), 162.
  

• Zhuolin Qu, Tong Wu, and James M. Hyman
  Modeling spatial waves of Wolbachia invasion for controlling mosquito-borne diseases,
  SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, 82.6, (2022), 1903-1929.

• Hayriye Gulbudak, Zhuolin Qu, Fabio Milner, and Necibe Tuncer
  Sensitivity Analysis in an Immuno-Epidemiological Vector-Host Model,
  Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 84, (2022), 27.

• Charles Stoecker, Alisha Monette, Zhuolin Qu, Norine Schmidt, Megan Clare Craig-Kuh, and Patricia Kissinger,
  Cost Effectiveness of Check It: A Novel Community-based Chlamydia Screening and Expedited Treatment Program for Young Black Men,
  Clinical Infectious Diseases, (2021), ciab818.

• Asma Azizi, Jeremy Dewar, Zhuolin Qu, and James M. Hyman.
  Using an Agent-based Sexual-network Model to Guide Mitigation Efforts for Controlling Chlamydia,
  Epidemics, 35 (2021), 100456.

• Zhuolin Qu, Asma Azizi, Norine Schmidt, Megan Craig-Kuhn, Charles Stoecker, James Hyman, and Patricia  Kissinger.
  Effect of Screening Young Men for Chlamydia trachomatis on the Rates among Women: A Network Modelling Study for High-prevalence Communities,
  BMJ Open, 11 (2021), e040789.
  

• Zhuolin Qu, Benjamin H. McMahon, Douglas J. Perkins, and James M. Hyman.
  Staged Progression Epidemic Models for the Transmission of Invasive Nontyphoidal Salmonella (iNTS) with Treatment,
  Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering, 18 (2021), 1529-1549.

• Asma Azizi, Zhuolin Qu, Bryan Lewis, and James M. Hyman,
  Generating a Heterosexual Bipartite Network Embedded in Social Network,
  Applied Network Science. 6 (2021), 30

• Panpim Thongsripong, Zhuolin Qu, Joshua O Yukich, James M Hyman, Dawn M Wesson.
  An Investigation of Human-Mosquito Contact Using Surveys and its Application in Assessing Dengue Viral Transmission Risk. Journal of Medical Entomology, 57(2020), 1942–1954.

• Zhuolin Qu and James M. Hyman,
  Generating a Hierarchy of Reduced Models for a System of Differential Equations Modeling the Spread of Wolbachia in Mosquitoes, SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, 79 (2019), 1675-1699
  

• Zhuolin Qu, Ling Xue, and James M. Hyman,
  Modeling the Transmission of Wolbachia in Mosquitoes for Controlling Mosquito-Borne Diseases,
  SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, 78 (2018), 826-852.

Numerical Methods for PDEs

• with Alexander Kurganov and Tong Wu,
  Well-Balanced Positivity Preserving Adaptive Moving Mesh Central-Upwind Schemes for the Saint-Venant System, ESAIM: Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis, 56 (2022), 1327-1360
  

• with Alexander Kurganov, Olga Rozanova, and Tong Wu.
  Adaptive Moving Mesh Central-Upwind Schemes for Hyperbolic System of PDEs. Applications to Compressible Euler Equations and Granular Hydrodynamics,
  Communications on Applied Mathematics and Computation, 3 (2021), 445–479
  

• with Yuanzhen Cheng, Alexander Kurganov, and Tao Tang,
  Fast and Stable Explicit Operator Splitting Methods for Phase-Field Models,
  Journal of Computational Physics, 303 (2015), 45-65. 
  

• with Chiu-Yen Kao, Alexander Kurganov, and Ying Wang,
  A Fast Explicit Operator Splitting Method for Modified Buckley-Leverett Equations,
  Journal of Scientific Computing, 64 (2015), 837-857. 

• with Alina Chertock, Alexander Kurganov, and Tong Wu,
  Three-Layer Approximation of Two-Layer Shallow Water Equations,
  Mathematical Modeling and Analysis, 18 (2013), 675-693.

Special Issue

• Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, "Advancing Mathematical Models of Mosquito-Borne Diseases", Co-edit with Michael Robert (Virginia Tech).
  

• Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering, "Machine Learning, Mathematical and Statistical Modeling for Systems Biology". Co-edit with Wandi Ding, Joshua Phillips, Russell Zaretzki. 
  

PhD Thesis

• Zhuolin Qu. Fast Operator Splitting Methods for Nonlinear PDEs. PhD Thesis, 2016, Tulane University [PDF]

MOOC

• Introduction to Agent-Based Modeling, Santa Fe Institute. Certificate earned on September 8, 2017 [URL]

• Neural Networks and Deep Learning, deeplearning.ai, Coursera. Certificate earned on September 7, 2017 [URL]

• Python Data Structures, University of Michigan, Coursera. Certificate earned on December 5, 2016 [URL]

• Machine Learning, Stanford University, Coursera. Certificate earned on November 21, 2016 [URL]

• Managing Big Data with MySQL, Duke University, Coursera. Certificate earned on June 23, 2016 [URL]

• Programming for Everybody (Getting Started with Python), University of Michigan, Coursera. Certificate earned on June 14, 2016 [URL] 

• Relational Algebra, Stanford Online Open Edx. Certificate earned on February, 2016 [URL]

• The Power of Macroeconomics: Economic Principles in the Real World, University of California, Irvine, Coursera. Certificate earned on September 7, 2014 [URL]

• The Power of Microeconomics: Economic Principles in the Real World, University of California, Irvine, Coursera. Certificate earned on September 7, 2014 [URL]

• R Programming, Johns Hopkins University, Coursera. Certificate earned on August 4, 2014 [URL]