UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI
 

Dr. Shigui Ruan, Professor

Shigui Ruan
Department of Mathematics
The University of Miami
Coral Gables, Florida 33146

Office: Ungar Building, Room 415
Phone: (305) 284-2312;  Fax: (305) 284-2848
E-mail:  ruan@math.miami.edu
What's new?
LECTURES
  • The Influence of Human Behavior and Social Factors on the Spread of Infeectious Diseases, Fields Institute. Toronto, Canada, February 15, 2022.
  • Spatio-Temporal Dynamics in Disease Ecology and Epidemiology, Mathematical Biosciences Institute, October 14, 2011.
    • EDUCATION
  • Postdoctoral Fellow (1993-1994), McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
  • Junior Fields Fellow (1992-1993), Fields Institute, Toronto, Canada
  • PhD (1990-1992), Applied Mathematics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
  • MSci (1985-1988), Mathematics, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
  • BSci (1979-1983), Mathematics, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
    • ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
  • 6/2005-present: Professor, University of Miami, Coral Gables, USA
  • 8/2002-5/2005: Associate Professor, University of Miami, Coral Gables, USA
  • 8/2001-5/2002: Visiting Associate Professor, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA
  • 7/1999-8/2002: Associate Professor, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
  • 7/1994-6/1999: Assistant Professor, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
    • TEACHING (Spring 2025)
  • MTH514/614 - Partial Differential Equations
    • RESEARCH INTERESTS
  • Differential Equations, Dynamical Systems, and Mathematical Biology: (i) I am interested in studying nonlinear dynamics of some kinds of differential equations, such as the center manifold theory and Hopf bifurcation in semilinear evolution equations, multiple-parameter bifurcations in delay equations, and traveling waves in nonlocal reaction-diffusion systems, which have significant applications in biology and medicine. (ii) I am also interested in modeling and studying transmission dynamics of some infectious diseases (for instance, malaria, Rift Valley Fever in Egypt, Hepatitis B virus, Schistosomiasis, human rabies in China, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), West Nile virus in US, etc.) and antibiotic-resistant bacteria infection in hospital and community. (iii) I have been trying to model some specific medical and biological problems such as the interaction of tumor cells and immune system, hematopoiesis process with applications to chronic myelogenous leukemia, the effect of seasonal harvesting on predator-prey models, immune response to HIV and malaria infections, etc.
    • FUNDED RESEARCH PROJECTS
  • eMB: Collaborative Research: Transmission, Control and Risk Assessment of Chikungunya: Combining Machine Learning with Deterministic Models (DMS-2424605), NSF, $323,038, 2024-2027 (PI: S. Ruan, Co-PIs: X. Huo and H. Li).
  • Modeling, Assessing, and Comparing Treatment Protocols to Prevent and Control Antibiotic Resistance (DMS-2052648), NSF, $280,000, 2021-2024 (PI: X. Huo, Co-PIs: S. Ruan and D. Miller).
  • Collaborative Research: Modeling the Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Vector-borne Diseases in Florida: The Case of Zika Outbreak in 2016 (DMS-1853622), NSF, $235,000, 2019-2023 (PI: S. Ruan, Co-PIs: X. Huo and J. Beier).
  • Nonlinear Dynamics in Structured Biological and Epidemiological Models (DMS-1412454), NSF, $255,000, 2014-2018.
  • Nonlinear Dynamics in Structured Biological and Epidemiological Models (DMS-1022728), NSF, $240,000; 2010-2014.
  • Mathematical Modeling of the Superspreaders of Antibiotic-Resistante Bacteria (R01GM083607), NIGMS/NIH, $1,399,330; 2007-2012.
  • Spatial Heterogeneity, Nonlocal Interactions and Time Delay in Biological and Epidemiological Spread (DMS-0715772), NSF, $52,506; 2007-2010.
  • Spatial Heterogeneity, Nonlocal Interactions and Time Delay in Epidemiological and Biological Spread (DMS-0412047), NSF, $170,300; 2004-2010 (supplementary: U.S.-China Collaboration in Mathematical Research, $40,000; 2007-2009).
  • Transmission Dynamics and Spatial Spread of Infectious Diseases: Modeling, Prediction and Control, MITACS (Canada)
    • PUBLICATIONS
  • Papers accepted, published and submitted in refereed journals and conference proceedings
    • BOOKS/PROCEEDINGS (CO-)EDITED
  • Special Issue on Spatial Dynamics for Epidemic Models with Dispersal of Organisms and Heterogenity of Environment (A. Ducrot, S. Ruan and Z.-C. Wang, Eds.) Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering, Vol. 17 (2020) No. 4.
  • Special Issue on Population Dynamics in Epidemiology and Ecology (L. Gerardo-Giorda, P. Magal, S. Ruan, O. Seydi and G. Webb, Eds.) Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series B, Vol. 25 (2020 No. 6.
  • Special Issue on the Workshop on Current Topics in Mathematical Biology (D. Gao, S. Ruan and J. Jiang, Eds.) Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering, Vol. 14 (2017) No. 5 & 6.
  • Special Issue in Honor of Stephen Cantrell on the Occasion of his 60th Birthday (C. Cosner, Y. Lou, S. Ruan and W. Shen, Eds.) Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series B, Vol. 22 (2017) No. 3.
  • Special Issue on Movement and Dispersal in Ecology, Epidemiology and Environmental Science (R. S. Cantrell, S. Lenhart, Y. Lou and S. Ruan, Eds.) Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series B, Vol. 20 (2015) No. 6.
  • Special issue dedicated to the 70th birthday of Glenn F. Webb (P. Hinow, P. Magal and S. Ruan, Eds.) Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering, Vol. 12 (2015) No. 4.
  • Special issue in honor of Chris Cosner on the occasion of his 60th birthday (R. S. Cantrell, S. Lenhart, Y. Lou and S. Ruan, Eds.) Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series B, Vol. 19 (2014) No. 10.
  • Special Issues in the Canadian Applied Mathematics Quarterly dedicated to Dr. Herbert I. Freedman for his 70th birthday (Y. Kuang, M. Li, S. Ruan, H. Wang, and J. Wu, Eds.), Vol. 19 (2011) No. 3, Vol. 19 (2011) No. 4, Vol. 20 (2012) No. 1, Vol. 20 (2012) No. 2.
  • Mathematical Modelling of Natural Phenomena (Epidemiology) (J. Arino, F. Milner, S. Petrovskii, S. Ruan, N. Stollenwek, E. Venturino, eds.), Vol. 7, No. 3, 2012.
  • Proceedings of the Workshop on Population Dynamics and Mathematical Biology, Luminy, France, June 2008 (P. Magal and S. Ruan, Eds.), Journal of Biological Dynamics, Volume 4, Issue 1, 2010.
  • Spatial Ecology (S. Cantrell, C. Cosner and S. Ruan, Eds.), CRC Press/Chapman & Hall, Boca Raton, FL, 2009.
  • Mathematical Modelling of Natural Phenomena (Delay Equations in Biology) (M. Adimy, F. Crauste, L. Pujo-Menjouet and S. Ruan, Eds.), Vol. 4, No. 2, 2009.
  • Structured Population Models in Biology and Epidemiology (P. Magal and S. Ruan, Eds.), Lecture Notes in Mathematics Vol. 1936, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2008.
  • Differential Equations in Mathematical Biology (P. Magal and S. Ruan, Eds.), Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series B, Special Issue, Vol. 8, No. 1, 2007
  • Advances in Mathematical Biology (L. Chen, Y. Kuan, S. Ruan and G. F. Webb, Eds.), Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series B, Special Issue, Vol. 4, No. 3, 2004
  • Dynamical Systems and Their Applications in Biology (S. Ruan, G. Wolkowicz and J. Wu, Eds.), Fields Institute Communications, Vol. 36, Amer. Math. Soc., 2003
  • Differential Equations with Applications to Biology (S. Ruan, G. Wolkowicz and J. Wu, Eds.), Fields Institute Communications, Vol. 21, Amer. Math. Soc., 1999
  • Advanced Topics in Biomathematics (L. Chen, S. Ruan and J. Zhu, Eds.), World Scientific, 1998
  • Differential Equations and Control Theory (Z. Deng, Z. Liang, G. Lu and S. Ruan, Eds.), Marcel Dekker, 1995
    • EDITORIAL BOARD
  • Bulletin of Mathematical Biology (Senior Editor)
  • Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems, Series B
  • International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos
  • International Journal of Biomathematics
  • International Journal of Evolution Equations
  • Journal of Biological Systems
  • Journal of Mathematical Biology
  • Mathematical Biosciences
  • Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering (Co-Editor-in-Chief -- Mathematics)
  • Nonlinear Analysis Real World Applications
  • Scientific Reports
    • HONOURS AND AWARDS
  • Cooper Fellow in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Miami in 2018
  • Killam Prize at Dalhousie University in 1998
  • Petro-Canada Young Innovator Award in 1997
  • Fields Institute Junior Fellowship in 1992
    • GRADUATE STUDENTS SUPERVISION
  • Antonio Barreto Gondim, PhD Candidate, University of Miami
  • Leonardo Schultz, PhD Candidate, University of Miami
  • Ailin Zhang, PhD Candidate, University of Miami (co-supervision with Xi Huo)
  • Hao Kang, PhD, University of Miami, 2020; Associate Professor, Tianjin University Applied Mathematics Center, China
  • Wen-Bing Xu, PhD, Lanzhou University and University of Miami (co-supervision with Wan-Tong Li), 2019; Associate Professor, Capital Normal University, Beijing, China
  • Ran Zhang, PhD, Harbin Institute of Technology and University of Miami (co-supervision with Shengqiang Liu), 2020; Associate Professor, Heilongjiang University, Harbin, China
  • Qimin Huang, PhD, University of Miami, 2018; Assistant Professor, Wooster College, Ohio
  • Qiuyi Su, PhD, University of Miami, 2018; Postdoc, York University
  • Jing Chen, PhD, University of Miami, 2015; Associate Professor, Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
  • Juan Zhang, PhD, North University of China (co-supervision with Zhen Jin), 2015; Associate Professor, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, China1
  • Sanhong Liu, PhD, Central China Normal University (co-supervision with Xinan Zhang), 2015; Associate Professor, Jianghan University, Wuhan, China1
  • Lei Wang, PhD, University of Miami, 2012; Faculty member, Daytona State College, Daytona Beach, Florida
  • Daozhou Gao, PhD, University of Miami, 2012; Faculty, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio
  • Ying Su, PhD, Harbin Institute of Technology and University of Miami (co-supervision with Junjie Wei), 2011; Associate Professor, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China
  • Lan Zou, PhD, Sichuan University and University of Miami (co-supervision with Weinian Zhang), 2010; Associate Professor, Capital Normal University, Beijing, China
  • Brian Coburn, PhD, University of Miami (co-supervision with Chris Cosner), 2009; Postdoc, Center for Biomedical Modeling, UCLA, 2009-2014; Data Scientist at Cogitativo Inc., Berkeley, CA
  • Dan Liu, PhD, East China Normal University and University of Miami (co-supervision Deming Zhu), 2009; Associate Professor, Xidian University, Xian, China
  • Guo Lin, PhD, Lanzhou University and University of Miami (co-supervision with Wan-Tong Li), 2008; Professor, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China1
  • Zhi-Cheng Wang, PhD, Lanzhou University (co-supervision with Wan-Tong Li), 2007; Professor, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China1
  • Rebecca Culshaw, PhD, Dalhousie University, 2002; MSc, Dalhousie University, 1997
  • Rami Filfil, MSc, Dalhousie University, 2002
  • Annik Martin, MSc, Dalhousie University, 1999; Lecturer, Department of Mathematics, Idaho State University
    • POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWS SUPERVISION
  • Ting-Hao Hsu, 2018-2020
  • Jing Chen, 2015-2017
  • Yanyu Xiao, 2014-2015 (co-supervision with J. C. Beier, R. S. Cantrell, C. Cosner)
  • Farida Chamchod, 2010-2012
  • Guangyu Zhao, 2009-2011
    • HONOURS STUDENTS SUPERVISION
  • Rolla Al-Agez (2000), Eman Al-Tawil (1999), Rami Filfil (1999), Dalya Abdulla (1998), Lynne Genik (1995)
    • MATHEMATICAL INSTITUTES AND SOCIETIES
  • American Mathematical Society
  • Banff International Research Station, Banff, Canada
  • Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematical Society
  • Canadian Mathematical Society
  • Centre International de Rencontres Mathématiques, Luminy, France
  • Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences, Toronto, Canada
  • Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, UK
  • Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge, UK
  • Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, Oberwolfach, Germany
  • University of Oxford Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, UK
  • MathSciNet Research (local users only)
  • Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
  • Society for Mathematical Biology
    • CONFERENCES (CO-)ORGANIZED
  • Workshop on Modeling Population Dynamics in Ecology, Environment and Epidemiology, Fields Institute, Toronto, Canada, August 15-19, 2022.
  • Workshop on Mathematical Biology and Nonlinear Analysis, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, December 19 - 21, 2014.
  • The Fourth Conference on Computational and Mathematical Population Dynamics (CMPD4), Taiyuan, China, May 29 - June 2, 2013.
  • International Conference on Everything Disperses to Miami: The Role of Movement and Dispersal in Spatial Ecology, Epidemiology and Environmental Science, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, December 14-16, 2012.
  • International Workshop on Antibiotic-Resistant Infections: Mathematical Modeling, Transmission Dynamics and Control, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, December 9-11, 2011.
  • Thematic Program on the Mathematics of Drug Resistance in Infectious Diseases, Fields Institute, Toronto, Canada, July-August, 2010.
  • The Third Conference on Computational and Mathematical Population Dynamics (CMPD3), Bordeaux, France, May 31- June 4, 2010.
  • Differential Equations and Applications to Mathematical Biology, Le Havre, France, June 23-27, 2008.
  • The International Workshop on Population Dynamics and Mathematical Biology, CIRM, Luminy, France, June 16-20, 2008.
  • The Conference on Mathematical Biology and Dynamical Systems, University of Texas at Tyler, October 7-9, 2005.
  • The International Workshop on Differential Equations in Mathematical Biology, Le Havre, France, July 11-13, 2005.
  • Workshop on Spatial Ecology: The Interplay between Theory and Data, Miami, Florida, USA, January 7-10, 2005.
  • The joint Summer 2004 Meeting of the CMS and the CAIMS, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, June 13-15, 2004.
  • ALCALA 2nd International Conference on Mathematical Ecology, Alcala de Henares (Madrid), Spain, September 5 - 9, 2003.
  • The Third International Conference on Mathematical Biology, Guilin, China, August 15-18, 2002.
  • The International Workshop on Dynamical Systems and their Applications in Biology, Cape Breton, Canada, August 2-6, 2001.
  • The 2000 APICS Math/Stat/CS Annual Meeting, Dalhousie University, October 20-22, 2000.
  • The International Conference on Differential Equations with Applications to Biology, Halifax, Canada, July 25-29, 1997.
  • The Second International Conference on Mathematical Biology, Hangzhou, China, May 26 - 29, 1997.
  • The International Conference on Differential Equations and Control Theory, Wuhan, China, May 10-14, 1994.
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