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Changfeng Gui, Ph.D.
Dan Parman Endowed Distinguished Chair in Applied Mathematics
The Dan Parman Endowed Distinguished Chair in Applied Mathematics was created in 2014 by the late Dan Franklin Parman. A noted community philanthropist, Mr. Parman gave generously to the San Antonio Life Sciences Institute established by the UT Systems to help develop the city’s biotechnology and biomedical industry.

Changfeng Gui, Ph.D.

Dan Parman Endowed Distinguished Chair in Applied Mathematics

Professor, Mathematics

Changfeng Gui holds the inaugural Dan F. Parman Endowed Chair in Applied Mathematics. Gui specializes in nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs), and image analysis and processing. 

Gui earned his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mathematics from Peking University in Beijing, China. He continued his education at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, and earned his Ph.D. in Mathematics there in 1991. Before joining UTSA’s faculty in 2015, Gui taught at New York University, McMaster University, the University of British Columbia, and the University of Connecticut. 

Gui was awarded one of 40 coveted Simons Fellowships in Mathematics for 2019. The Simons Fellows program extends academic leaves from one term to a full year, enabling recipients to focus solely on research for the long periods often necessary for significant advances. The award is based on the applicant’s scientific accomplishments in the five-year period preceding the application and on the potential scientific impact of the work to be done during the leave period. During the duration of the fellowship, Gui plans to study the mean field equation and the Allen-Cahn equation, which are two important types of nonlinear PDEs that arise in the study of several physical phenomena such as Electroweak theory and Chern-Simons-Higgs quantum field theories, statistical mechanics of two-dimensional turbulence, phase separation and phase transition, etc.