Sijue Wu

Sijue Wu is the Robert W. and Lynne H. Browne Professor of Mathematics at the University of Michigan. Born in 1964 in China, she earned her B.S. (1983) and M.S. (1986) from Beijing University and her Ph.D. (1990) from Yale University. Her academic career includes positions at the Courant Institute (NYU), Northwestern University, University of Iowa, and University of Maryland before joining Michigan in 2009. She has been an invited speaker at the 2002 International Congress of Mathematicians.

Her research focuses on partial differential equations and fluid mechanics, particularly water wave equations and free boundary problems. Key contributions include establishing well-posedness for 2D and 3D water wave problems using harmonic analysis and Clifford algebra. She has also studied vortex sheets, self-gravitating fluids, and Muskat interface dynamics. Her awards include the 2001 Satter Prize, Morningside Silver (2001), and Gold Medals (2010), the latter being the first awarded to a woman.

Her work spans diverse areas such as Sobolev regularity analysis, nonlinear wave interactions, and geometric fluid dynamics. She has collaborated with researchers like Nathan Totz, Shuang Miao, and Sohrab Shahshahani, advancing mathematical frameworks for fluid interface stability and singularity formation.