Current Research Projects
Prof. Xie currently focuses on the following four research projects:
Simulation of protein-membrane interactions by implicit solvent models. This project is supported by the National Science Foundation. The co-PI is Dr. Peter Butko , a professor of Biochemistry at the University of Southern Mississippi.
MSM Multiscale Modeling of the Heart in Cardiovascular. This project is supported by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering. The PI is Prof. Daniel A. Beard, the Biotechnology and Bioengineering Center at the Medical College of Wisconsin. Other co-PI include Dr. Nicolas Smith, the Bioengineering Institute at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Development of Fast Biomolecular Simulation Algorithms with Applications to Heme Proteins. This project was supported by the Graduate School of UWM. The co-PI is Dr. Benjamin A. Feinberg, Professor of Chemistry at UWM.
Visualization of structure-activity relationships of chemical databases. This project was supported by the Graduate School Research Committee of UWM.
These projects involves mathematical modeling and analysis, large-scale nonlinear optimization, numerical solution of nonlinear partial differential equations, numerical solution of large-scale linear and nonlinear systems, parallel computing, software package development, and large-scale biomolecular simulations. Progress made in the projects can significantly promote the development of numerical mathematics, numerical algorithms, software packages, high performance scientific computing, and computational biology and biochemistry.
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