Education

• Ph.D. in Physics, 12/2004, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA,
GPA: 4.0 /4.0
• Advisor Dr. Predrag Cvitanovic
• Dissertation "Dynamical systems approach to 1-d spatiotemporal chaos - A cyclist's view"
• MS in Physics, 12/2000, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
• BS in Physics, 7/1997, Peking University, Beijing, China

 Research Interests

• Signal transduction, graph theoretic analysis and evolution analysis of cell reaction networks, cell migration, systems biology.
• Pattern formation, coherent structures and spatiotemporal chaos in fluids and complex systems.
• Non-equilibrium statistical mechanics, stochastic processes, field theory, nonlinear and complex dynamics, semiclassical calculations.
• Exact solutions, renormalization group approach to nonlinear differential equations and complex systems.
• Algorithms, computer simulations and computational biology and physics.

 Selected Publications

• Unstable recurrent patterns in Kuramoto-Sivashinsky dynamics, Y. Lan and P. Cvitanovi\'{c}, accepted for publication(2008).
• The Stochastic Dynamics of Filopodial Growth, Y. Lan and G. A. Papoian, Biophys. J. 94, 3839(2008).
• Stochastic resonant signaling in enzyme cascades, Y. Lan and G. Papoian, Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 228301(2007). Selected to
  The Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research.
• Variational method for finding periodic orbits in a general flow, Y. Lan and P.Cvitanovi\'{c}, Phys. Rev. E 69, 016217(2004) [nlin.CD/0308008].
• Analyzing intramolecular dynamics by fast Lyapunov indicators, E. Shchekinova, C. Chandre, Y. Lan and T. Uzer, J. Chem. Phys. 121, 3471(2004).

 Awards:

• Travel allowance to IMA Workshop: Stochastic Models for Intracellular Reaction Networks, Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications (Minnesota), 2008.
  
• National Science Foundation Grant (NSF) 0715225, participation in writing the proposal, 2007.
  
• Travel Grants for Dynamics Days in 2004 and 2007, Dynamical Systems Organization.
  
• Miller's Scholarship, University of Missouri, 2006.
  
• Gilbert Amelio Fellowship, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2004.
  
• Honorable Mention in the International Mathematical Contest in Modeling, Beijing University, 1996.
  
• Second Prize in Challenge Cup Science Competition, Beijing University, 1996
  
• Huikai Scholarship, Beijing University, 1994.

 Industry Experiences:

• Research Associate, Oct, 1995 - Oct, 1996, Optical Institute of China Daheng Corporation, Beijing, China
  • Project: Computer simulation of optical diagnosis of the offset and coplanarity of chip leads.