Xiaozhe Hu is a full-time Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Tufts University since July 2024. Previously held positions include Associate Professor (2019-2024) and Assistant Professor (2014-2019) at Tufts, and Adjunct Associate Professor (2020-2022) at the University of Bergen, Norway. Education : PhD in Computational Mathematics (Zhejiang University, 2009); BS in Information and Computer Science (Zhejiang University, 2004) His research focuses on scientific computing and numerical analysis , particularly: Development of adaptive and parallel numerical methods for PDEs and graph problems Multigrid/multilevel solvers for large-scale coupled systems Quantum algorithms and spectral graph theory Applications in poromechanics , reservoir simulation , and bioinformatics Recent publications demonstrate expertise in preconditioning techniques for Biot’s model, meshless methods for fluid-structure interaction, and data-driven discretization approaches . Awards include the Reimann-Louville Award (2016) and outstanding PhD graduate recognition (Zhejiang Province, 2009). PhD Students : Junyuan Lin (Loyola Marymount), Peter Ohm (RIKEN), Casey Cavanaugh (LSU), Kaiyi Wu, Eoghan O'Keefe Master Students : Charles Colley (Purdue PhD), Yue Shen (Florida State PhD), Samuel Rabinowitz, Phong Huang, Samuel Hocking Co-organizer of the Computational and Applied Mathematics Seminar and contributor to open-source HAZmath finite element library.











