Xiaoying (Maggie) Han
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Professor, Director of Actuarial Program, and COSAM's Acting Deputy Associate Dean for Academic Affairs

Research Areas: Actuarial Mathematics , Applied Mathematics , Differential Equations

Office: 312 Parker Hall

Auburn, AL 36849-5310

Phone: (334) 844-5884

Email: xzh0003@auburn.edu

Website

Education
Ph.D., The State University of New York at Buffalo,
2007
M.A., The State University of New York at Buffalo,
2004
University of Sciences and Technology of China (USTC)
2001

Professional Employment
Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Auburn University
2017 - present
Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Auburn University
2012 - 2017
Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Auburn University
2007 - 2012
Visiting Scholar, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, Southend-on-Sea, UK
2013
Research Fellow, Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute, Durham, NC
2011 - 2012
Teaching Assistant, Department of Mathematics, The State University of New York at Buffalo
2002 - 2007

Honors and Awards
Associateship of the Society of Actuaries (ASA) (Schaumburg, IL)
2012 - present
COSAM Young Faculty Scholar Award ($25,000) (College of Sciences and Mathematics; Auburn University; Auburn, AL) 2021 Fulbright U.S. Scholar (Brazil) (The Council for International Exchange of Scholars; Washington, DC) 2020 - 2021 (withdrawn due to COVID19) Marguerite Scharnagle Endowed Professorship (College of Sciences and Mathematics; Auburn University; Auburn, AL) 2018 - 2020 Provost-funded Professional Improvement Leave (Auburn University) Spring 2019 Auburn Author Award (Auburn University) 2018 Focused Research Group #16frg671 (Banﬀ International Research Station for Mathematical Innovation and Discovery; Banﬀ, Canada) 2017 Jack B. Brown Endowed Faculty Award (Department of Mathematics and Statistics; Auburn University; Auburn, AL) 2015 - 2017 AWM-NSF Travel Grant (Association for Women in Mathematics; Fairfax, VA) 2014 COSAM Travel Award (College of Sciences and Mathematics; Auburn University; Auburn, AL) 2014; 2012 Plan Propio de la Universidad de Sevilla (Institute of Mathematics (IMUS); University of Seville; Seville, Spain) 2014 NSF Travel Award (National Science Foundation; Arlington, VA) 2013 COSAM Travel Award (College of Sciences and Mathematics; Auburn University) 2012 Educational Institutional ASA Grant (Society of Actuaries; Schaumburg, IL) 2012 Butz Teaching Award (Department of Mathematics and Statistics; Auburn University) 2011 Northrop Grumman Research Grant (Auburn University) 2009 Graduate Students Travel Funding Award (State University of New York at Buffalo) 2007 Fellowship of College of Arts and Sciences (State University of New York at Buffalo) 2002 - 2006 IMSM Graduate Students Travel Funding Award (Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute; Durham, NC) 2005 Professional Activities [1] PI, Collaboration Grants for Mathematicians #964968, 09/01/2022 – 08/31/2027 ($42,000), Simons Foundation, New York
[2] Investigator of the research team (PI: Tom´as Caraballo), Deterministic and stochastic dynamics in applied sciences PID2021-122991NB-C21, 09/01/2022 – 08/31/2025 (€217,800), Ministry of Science and Innovation, Spain
[3] Investigator of the research team (PI: Pedro Mar´ın Rubio), Dynamics of PDE models in the applied sciences PY18-4509, 01/01/2020 – 12/31/2022 (€135,625), Junta de Andalucia, Spain
[4] Consultant, Mathematical analysis of stochastic chemical systems, 10/01/2019 – 09/30/2022 (\$75,000), Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA.

Selected Publications

##### Monographs
1. X. Han, P. E. Kloeden, Dissipative Lattice Dynamical Systems, World Scientific DOI: 10.1142/13182 (in press).
2. X. Han, P. E. Kloeden, Random Ordinary Differential Equations and Their Numerical Solutions, Springer Nature, Singapore (2017).
3. X. Han, P. E. Kloeden, Attractors under discretisation, BCAM SpringerBriefs, Springer, Cham (2017).
4. T. Caraballo, X. Han, Applied Nonautonomous and Random Dynamical Systems, BCAM SpringerBriefs, Springer, Cham (2016).
##### Peer-reviewed Articles  (* Corresponding author)
1. X. Han*, H. Najm, Modeling fast diffusion processes in time integration of stiff stochastic differential equations, Communications on Applied Mathematics and Computation (2022) https://doi.org/10.1007/s42967-022-00188-z.
2. J. Cheng, P. Chesson, X. Han*, The lottery model for ecological competition in non-stationary environments, SIAM Journal of Applied Mathematics 81 (2021) 2480–2502.
3. Xiaoli Wang, P. E. Kloeden, X. Han*, Stochastic dynamics of a neural field lattice model with state dependent nonlinear noise, Nonlinear Differential Equations and Applications 28 (2021) 1–31.
4. P. Wang, Y. Cao, X. Han*, P. E. Kloeden, Mean-square convergence of numerical methods for random ordinary differential equations, Numerical Algorithms 87 (2021) 299–333.
5. M. Sui, Y. Wang, X. Han, P. E. Kloeden, Random recurrent neural networks with delays, Journal of Differential Equations 269 (2020) 8597–8693.
6. X. Han*, P. E. Kloeden, B. Usman, Upper semi continuity of the attractor for a Hopfield neural lattice model, Nonlinearity 33 (2020) 1881–1906.
7. W. Sun, T. Caraballo, X. Han*, P. E. Kloeden, A free boundary tumor model with time dependent nutritional supply, Nonlinear Analysis: Real World Applications 53 (2020) 103063.
8. X. Han, M. Valaroni, H. Najm, Explicit time integration for stiff chemical Langevin equations based on computational singular perturbation, Journal of Chemical Physics 150 (2019) 194101.

Last updated: 10/24/2022