Faculty Profile for Dr. Young Ju Lee

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Dr. Young Ju Lee
Professor — Mathematics
MCS 580
phone: (512) 245-8023
Scholarly/Creative Work
Awards
Grants
Service

Biography Section

Biography and Education

 Dr. Lee received his Ph.D. in Math, from Penn State University in 2004, did a postdoc at UCLA until 2007. He then took a tenure-track faculty job at Math Department at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Piscataway. He worked at Rutgers, until 2013. He joined Texas State University, Mathematics in the fall of 2013. He is currently a Professor at Mathematics.

Teaching Interests

 He likes to teach analysis, numerical analysis, and scientific computing.

Research Interests

 Currently, his main research interest is in investigating the coupled flow and transports. He is also investigating tornadogenesis.

Selected Scholarly/Creative Work

  • Lee, Y. J., & Park, J. (2024). On the linear convergence of additive schwarz methods for the p-Laplacian. IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis.
  • Choi, Y., Jo, G., Kwak, D., & Lee, Y. J. (2022). Locally conservative discontinuous bubble scheme for Darcy flow and its application to Hele-Shaw equation based on structured grid. Numerical Algorithms, 1–26.
  • Jaracz, J. S., & Lee, Y. J. (2022). Existence and Stability of Global Solutions to a regularized Oldroyd-B Model in its Vorticity Formulation. Journal of Differential Equations, 327, 259–321.
  • Jo, G., Lee, Y. J., & Ojeda-Ruiz, I. (2022). 2D and 3D image reconstruction from slice data based on a constrained bilateral smoothing and dynamic mode decomposition. Applied Mathematics and Computation.
  • Kim, S., Kim, M., Lee, S., & Lee, Y. J. (2021). Discovering spatiotemporal patterns of COVID-19 pandemic in South Korea. Scientific Reports, 11.

Selected Awards

  • Award / Honor Recipient: Teaching Award of Honor, Texas State Alumni Association. May 2020
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Teaching and Learning Technology Innovation Grant Opportunity for Full-Time Faculty, Texas State University. June 1, 2016 - May 30, 2017
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Research Excellence Award, Mathematics Department. December 2023 - Present
  • Award / Honor Recipient: National Science Foundation, National Science Foundation. June 2022 - May 2025

Selected Grants

  • Lee, Young Ju. Coupled Flow and Transport Modeling and Simulation of Complex Fluids and Extreme Weather Patterns by Harnessing Data, NSF, Federal, $350017. (Funded: June 1, 2022 - May 31, 2025). Grant.
  • Kim, Namwon (Principal), Lee, Young Ju (Co-Principal). Computational and Experimental Investigations of Wormlike Micellar Fluids for Enhanced Oil Recovery, American Chemistry Society (ACS) Petroleum Research Fund (PRF), $110000. (Funded: December 1, 2016 - August 31, 2021). Grant.
  • Lee, Chul-Ho (Principal), Lee, Young Ju (Co-Principal). Scalable and Efficient Fair Graph Clustering, Texas State Center for Analytics and Data Science (TXST CADS), Texas State University, $6000. (Submitted: December 2023, Funded: January 2024 - December 2024). Grant.
  • Lee, Young Ju. REP: Modeling and Simulation of Extreme Micro-Weather Patterns in Vapor-to-Particle Reaction, Convection and Diffusion Systems, Texas State University, Texas State University, $8000. (Funded: January 2022 - December 2022). Grant.
  • Lee, Young Ju. A development of enriched immersed finite element method for computing multiphase flows in porous media, National Research Foundation of Korea, Institutional (Higher Ed), $120000. (Funded: July 2020 - June 2021). Grant.

Selected Service Activities

Editorial Review Board Member
Kangwon-Kyunggi Mathematical Society
September 1, 2021-August 31, 2025
Co-Chair
Machine Learning Seminar
August 2023-Present
Member
Texas State University
December 2021-Present
Reviewer / Referee
Mathematical Reviews/MathSciNet
November 2021-Present
Chair
Numerical Methods for Data Science in Science and Engineering
September 2021-Present