Bowen Li

Email: bowen.li AT cityu.edu.hk; bowen.li200 AT gmail.com

Address: Room Y6625, Yeung Kin Man Academic Building, City University of Hong Kong, Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong

Research interests: Scattering Theory and Resonances; Optimal Transport; Inverse Problems; Mathematical Materials Science;
Quantum information and Computing; Quantum many-body problems.

Education and Experience

2024--Present   Assistant Professor, City University of Hong Kong.

2021--2024.   Phillip Griffiths Research Assistant Professor, Duke University,   Mentor: Prof. Jianfeng Lu.

2017--2021.   Ph. D. in Mathematics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong,   Supervisor: Prof. Jun Zou.

2013--2017.   B.Sc. in Mathematics, Wuhan University.

Publications and preprints

Polynomial-Time Preparation of Low-Temperature Gibbs States for 2D Toric Code
with Zhiyan Ding, Lin Lin, Ruizhe Zhang [arXiv]

A Randomized Method for Simulating Lindblad Equations and Thermal State Preparation
With Hongrui Chen, Jianfeng Lu, Lexing Ying [arXiv]

Quantum space-time Poincare inequality for Lindblad dynamics
with Jianfeng Lu [arXiv]

Efficient quantum Gibbs samplers with Kubo-Martin-Schwinger detailed balance condition
with Zhiyan Ding, Lin Lin [arXiv]

PirateNets: Physics-informed Deep Learning with Residual Adaptive Networks
with Sifan Wang, Yuhan Chen, Paris Perdikaris [arXiv]

Quantum variational embedding for ground-state energy problems: sum of squares and cluster selection
with Jianfeng Lu [arXiv]

Fano resonances in all-dielectric electromagnetic metasurfaces
with Habib Ammari, Hongjie Li, Jun Zou, Multiscale Model. Simul., 22 (2024), 476--526. [Journal] [arXiv]

Interpolation between modified logarithmic Sobolev and Poincare inequalities for quantum Markovian dynamics
with Jianfeng Lu, J. Stat. Phys., 190(10):161, (2023). [Journal] [arXiv]

Vector-wise joint diagonalization of almost commuting matrices
with Jianfeng Lu, Ziang Yu [arXiv]

On the convergence of discrete dynamic unbalanced transport models
with Jun Zou, ESAIM: Math. Model. Numer. Anal., 58, (2024) 957-992. [Journal] [arXiv]

On a general matrix-valued unbalanced optimal transport problem
with Jun Zou [arXiv]

Mathematical analysis of electromagnetic scattering by dielectric nanoparticles with high refractive indices
with Habib Ammari, Jun Zou, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc., 376 (2023), 39-90. [Journal] [arXiv]

Superresolution in recovering embedded electromagnetic sources in high contrast media
with Habib Ammari, Jun Zou, SIAM J. Imaging Sci., 13 (2020), 1467-1510. [Journal] [arXiv]

Mathematical analysis of electromagnetic plasmonic metasurfaces
with Habib Ammari, Jun Zou, Multiscale Model. Simul., 18 (2020), 758-797. [Journal] [arXiv]

An adaptive edge element method and its convergence for an electromagnetic optimal control problem
with Jun Zou, ESAIM: Math. Model. Numer. Anal., 55 (2021) 2013–2044. [Journal] [arXiv]

Honors and Awards

Hong Kong Mathematical Society Best Thesis Award, 2022

The CUHK Young Scholars Thesis Award, 2022

Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme, Research Grants Council of Hong Kong, 2017--2021

Madam Wong Siew Khoon Scholarship, CUHK, 2018

Hongyi Honor Class Scholarship, Wuhan University, 2014--2017

Teaching

Instructor, City University of Hong Kong

Applied Partial Differential Equations (MA5601),    2024 Fall

Instructor, Duke University

Multivariable Calculus for Economics (MATH 202D),    2023 Fall; 2024 Spring
Matrices and Vector Spaces (MATH 218D),    2021, 2022 Fall; 2023 Spring
Multivariable Calculus (MATH 219),    2022 Spring

Teaching Assistant, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Calculus for Engineers (MATH 1510),    2017–2019
University Mathematics (MATH 1010),    2018–2019
Numerical Methods for Differential Equations (MATH3240),    2017–2019
Numerical Analysis (MATH3230),    2019–2021