Kainan Wang, 王凯澜
Grad Student in Mathematics
IAMCS Graduate Fellow

Education

• Ph.D. Mathematics, Texas A&M University, expected Dec. 2012
• B.S. Mathematics, Sichuan University, China, Jun. 2007

Teaching

• MATH 151, Engineering Math I, Spring 2008, Spring 2009 and Fall 2009
• MATH 152, Engineering Math II, Fall 2010, Summer 2011
• MATH 417, Numerical Analysis I, Fall 2011

Research Interests

• Bayesian Inverse problems
• Monte Carlo methods
• Parallel Computing

Publications

• Moritz Allmaras, Woflgang Bangerth, Jean Marie Linhart, Javier Polanco, Fang Wang, Kainan Wang, Jennifer Webster and Sarah Zedler
  Estimating parameters in physical models through Bayesian inversion: A complete example. Accepted by the SIAM review, Nov 2011.
• Wolfgang Bangerth, Kainan Wang
  Parallel Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods in optical tomography Presentation in preparation

Talks

• Kainan Wang, Stochastic sampling in inverse problems Graduate Student Organization Seminar at Texas A&M University

Honors and Awards

• IAMCS Graduate Fellowship, since Jan. 2012
• Texas A&M University Teaching Assistantship, 2007-2011

Links

IAMCS at Texas A&M University

KAUST