Chia Lee

PhD, Applied Mathematics (Brown University, Division of Applied Math)
Advisor: Professor Boris Rozovsky
MS, Applied Mathematics (Brown University, Division of Applied Math)
B.Sc., Mathematics and Music (The University of Michigan at Ann Arbor)

Research Interests

At Brown, my research was in the analysis and numerical analysis of stochastic PDEs driven by spatial white noise. I studied the existence of solutions of SPDE as generalized random elements using techniques from the Malliavin calculus and Wiener chaos expansion. In particular, I looked at parabolic SPDEs and the stochastic Navier-Stokes equations modeled using the Malliavin calculus or the Wick product, as well as numerical error analysis for solving SPDE using the Wiener chaos expansion.

Before going to Brown, I spent a year at the Bioinformatics Institute in Singapore, where I studied the modeling of p53 tumor suppressor reaction pathways as well as modifications of Gillespie's Stochastic Simulation Algorithm for simulating enzymatic reactions catalyzed by a single enzyme whose reaction rate constant varies randomly in time.

Publications

• C. Y. Lee.
  Stochastic simulation of biochemical systems with randomly fluctuating rate constants
  Manuscript in preparation.
  PDF
• C. Y. Lee and B. R. Rozovskii.
  A stochastic finite element method for stochastic parabolic equations driven by purely spatial noise,
  Communications on Stochastic Analysis, 2010, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 271-297.
  PDF
• C. Y. Lee, B. R. Rozovskii and H. M. Zhou.
  Randomization of forcing in large systems of PDEs for improvement of energy estimates,
  SIAM Journal of Multiscale Modeling and Simulation, 2010, Vol. 8, No. 4, pp. 1419-1438.
  DOI
• K. H. Chiam, C. Y. Lee and G. Lythe.
  Stochastic kinetics of enzymatic reactions, switches, and cascades,
  In preparation.

Curriculum Vitae

• C.V. in PDF format

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