Wenjun Xia-女上位

Name：

Wenjun Xia

Title：

Associate Professor

Research orientations：

Applied and computational mathematics；Computational neuroscience and AI

Postgraduate/Graduate Enrollment Specialty：

Applied and computational mathematics

E-mail：

[email protected]

Address：

Faculty of Science, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu 212013, P. R. China

Education background

Ph.D. Applied and Computational Mathematics, School of Mathematics, The University of Edinburgh (July 2013)
MSc. with Distinction School of Mathematics, The University of Edinburgh (November 2009)
B.C. Nanjing University (June 2006)

Working experience

June 2015-Current Associated Professor, School of Mathematical Sciences, Jiangsu University

November 2024-October 2025 Visiting Professor, School of Computer Science, The University of Leeds

March 2013-June 2015 Associate Research Fellow, Tsinghua University

October 2009-October 2012 Tutor, School of Mathematics, The University of Edinburgh

Research projects

● Computational neuroscience and brain inspired intelligence

● Applications of A

Teaching Courses

● Postgraduates: Practical Largescale Optimization; Qualitative Theory of Ordinary Differential Equations; Mathematical Modelling in Ecology; Matrix Theory

● Undergraduates: Data Mining; Probability and Statistics; Linear Algebra

Publications

● “Mesophasic organization of GABAA receptors in hippocampal inhibitory synapses”, Nature Neuroscience 23(12), 1-8(2020)

● “Formulation of the protein synthesis rate with sequence information”, Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering 15(2), 507-522(2018)

● “Modelling mutational and selection pressures on dinucleotides in eukaryotic phyla - selection against CpG and UpA in cytoplasmically expressed RNA and in RNA viruses”, BMC Genomics 14, 610 (2013)

● “Refraction and Instability of Optical Vortices at an Interface in a Liquid Crystal”, J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 45, 165403 (2012)

● “Modulation analysis of nonlinear beam refraction at an interface in liquid crystals”, Phys. Rev. A 84, 033818 (2011)

Honors & awards

● 2016 Program of 'Mass Entrepreneurship and Innovation' of Jiangsu Province
● 2013 Program of Postdoctoral International Exchange, from Ministry of Education of China