Xueru Ding
	I'm currently a post-doctoral researcher in Physics and Space Sciences Department, Florida Institute of Technology. I received my Ph. D. from Department of Mathematical Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Aug. 2008. My advisor is Prof. Chjan C. Lim. I got my MS and BS degrees in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology in China.

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

· Numerical simulation and programming

· Monte Carlo methods

· Statistical Physics

PAPERS:

· X. Ding and C.C. Lim, Statistical Predictions of anticyclonic predominance, the Great , Red Spot's high rim velocity, and Limaye's zones-belt - a Shallow Water Model, Preprint, 2008

· X. Ding and C.C. Lim, First-Order phase transitions and high energy coherent spots in a shallow-water model on a rapidly rotating sphere, Submitted to Physics of Fluid, 2008

· X. Ding and C.C. Lim, Phase transitions of the energy-relative enstrophy theory for a coupled barotropic fluid-rotating sphere system , Physica A 374, 152-164, 2007

· X. Ding and C.C. Lim, Equilibrium phases in the energy-relative enstrophy statistical mechanics model of barotropic flows on a rotating sphere, American Meteorological Society Proceedings, Atlanta, 2006

· Ding, X.R. and Wang, C.X., Neural network models and algorithms in handwritten character recognition, Chinese Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, 8(4), 346-351, 1995

· Ding, X.R. and Wang, C.X., A novel feature recognition network for pattern recognition, Annual Conference of Chinese Electronics, Xian, China, 1995

BOOK:

· C. C. Lim, X. Ding and J. Nebus, “Vortex Dynamics, Statistical Mechanics and Planetary Atmospheres”, World Scientific, December, 2008.