Fei Xue


Current Position                                                                         

o       Research Assistant Professor

Department of Mathematics

College of Science and Technology

Temple University

Supervisor: Professor Daniel B. Szyld


Contact Information

o       514 Wachman Hall

1805 North Broad Street

Temple University

Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA

o       Phone: (215) 204-8607

Fax: (215) 204-6433

o       Email: fxue _at_ temple.edu


Research Interests

Numerical linear algebra, sparse matrix computations, scientific computing

Curriculum Vitae


Education

o       Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park, 2009.

o       M.E., Southeast University (China), 2004.

o       B.E., Southeast University (China), 2001.


Publications

    • Journal papers

§      Fei Xue and Howard Elman,

Fast inexact implicitly restarted Arnoldi method for generalized eigenvalue problems with spectral transformation, in preparation

§      Fei Xue and Howard Elman,

Fast inexact subspace iteration for generalized eigenvalue problems with spectral transformation, submitted

§      Fei Xue and Howard Elman,

Convergence analysis of iterative solvers in inexact Rayleigh quotient iteration (pdf),

SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications, Vol. 31, No. 3 (2009), pp 877--899.

    • Other publications

§      Numerical solution to eigenvalue problems with spectral transformations (Ph.D thesis) (pdf)

Thesis Advisor: Professor Howard C. Elman

Applied Mathematics, Statistics and Scientific computation (AMSC) program, University of Maryland, College Park, August 2009

§      Computing the dynamics of large multi-particle systems using Fast Multipole Method (FMM) with multi-scale time stepping (unpublished manuscript) (pdf)      

AMSC 663/664 Final report, University of Maryland, College Park, May 2006


Teaching

o       Fall 2009: Calculus III (Mathematics 2043, Section 001) (webpage)


Software

o       MATLAB version of the implicitly restarted Arnoldi (IRA) method and the Jacobi-Davidson (JDQZ) method for non-Hermitian matrices

o       The following work completed in summer 2008 has been put in MATLAB R2009a and later versions

Functionality extension of
eigs to solve generalized eigenvalue problem Av = λBv with Hermitian indefinite or non-Hermitian B;
Improvement of
gmres in memory efficiency and robustness;
Improvement of
pcg, minres, symmlq, bicg and bicgstab in CPU efficiency;
Development of new iterative solvers
tfqmr and bicgstabl