Qi
Tang

General Information

Email:
qtang@gatech.edu
Phone:
4048948491
Location - Building:
Coda
Location - Room:
S1373B
Roles:
Professor (any rank)
Primary Unit:
School of Computational Science and Engineering

Details

Degrees with subject and Postdoc Experience:
Degree Type
Ph.D.
Subject
Applied Math
Year
2015
Institution
Michigan State University
Location
East Lansing
Degree Type
Postdoctoral scholar
Subject
Applied Math
Year
2015–2018
Institution
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Location
Troy
Degree Type
Postdoctoral scholar
Subject
Applied Math and Plasma Physics
Year
2018–2021
Institution
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Location
Los Alamos
Statement of Research Interests:

My research interests include: (1) High-performance computing: high-order schemes (finite difference/volume/element), particle-in-cell, scalable iterative solvers, preconditioning, adaptive mesh refinement, GPU accelerations; (2) Scientific computing and simulations: multiscale and multiphysics problems, fusion modeling, computational plasma physics; (3) AI/ML and data science: structure-preserving ML, dynamical system learning, scale bridging, ML-based surrogates, denoising, Bayesian inference

Statement of Teaching Interests:

I teach applied mathematics and computational science with an emphasis on connecting theory, algorithms, and real scientific applications. My courses integrate concrete examples, prototype implementations, and project-based learning to link numerical linear algebra, PDEs, and parallel computing with HPC, AI/ML, and physics. I recently taught Numerical Linear Algebra, where I connect core topics such as conditioning, QR, SVD, and eigenvalue problems to data analysis and scientific machine learning, emphasizing both mathematical insight and computational consequences. In my High-Performance Scientific Computing course I design structured team projects using professional research workflows and actively incorporate AI-assisted development to train students to use emerging tools critically and responsibly.

Selection of recent research, scholarly, and creative activities:

1. E. Drimalas, F. Fraschetti, C.-K. Huang, and Q. Tang. Symplectic neural network and its applications to charged particle dynamics in electromagnetic fields, Physics of Plasmas, 2025.

2. S.-H. Wang, Y. Huang, J. Baker, Y.-E. Sun, Q. Tang, and B. Wang. A theoretically-principled sparse, connected, and rigid graph representation of molecules, ICLR, 2025.

3. D. Serino, Q. Tang, X.-Z. Tang, T. Kolev, and K. Lipnikov. An adaptive Newton-based free-boundary Grad–Shafranov solver, SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, 2025.

4. G. Wimmer, B. Southworth, and Q. Tang. A structure-preserving discontinuous Galerkin scheme for the Cahn-Hilliard equation including time adaptivity, Journal of Computational Physics, 2025.

5. D. Serino, A. Alvarez Loya, J. Burby, I. Kevrekidis, and Q. Tang. Fast-slow neural networks for learning singularly perturbed dynamical systems, Journal of Computational Physics, 2025.