PENG, Zhi-Chao

PENG, Zhi-Chao is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. His research interests include numerical methods for kinetic models, plasma physics, electromagnetic and wave propagation; model order reduction and scientific machine learning to discover low rank approximations from data. He has published extensively in journals such as Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations, Journal of Computational Physics, and SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing. He has also received the HKUST-KTH Global Knowledge Network Awards 2024.

Zhichao Peng is a researcher specializing in Numerical Analysis, Scientific computing, and Reduced order models. His work focuses on developing stable and efficient numerical methods for solving complex equations arising in kinetic transport, radiative transfer, and quantum computing. He has contributed to the design of asymptotic preserving schemes, reduced basis methods, and synthetic acceleration techniques for parametric problems. His research also includes structure-preserving discontinuous Galerkin methods and adaptive algorithms for multi-scale simulations. Peng's publications highlight his expertise in combining mathematical rigor with computational efficiency to address challenges in high-dimensional and time-dependent problems.