Jinqiao Duan (Chinese: 段金桥; born in December 1962 in lunar calendar and in January 1963 in Gregorian calendar) is a professor of mathematics at Illinois Institute of Technology,[1] Chicago, USA.
His particular contributions include a random invariant manifold framework, effective reduction and approximation, quantifying non-Gaussian stochastic dynamics by nonlocal partial differential equations, a nonlocal Kramers-Moyal formula, non-Gaussian data assimilation, Onsager-Machlup action functional theory, and transitions between metastable states for stochastic dynamical systems (especially with non-Gaussian Levy fluctuations).
He served as Associate Director of the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (www.ipam.ucla.edu), Los Angeles, USA, during 2011-2013.
He was a Postdoc with Stephen Wiggins and an Instructor at California Institute of Technology (Caltech), USA.
Stochastic Dynamics & Data Science Duan's research fields include the theory, calculation and simulation of stochastic dynamical systems and nonlinear dynamical systems, as well as the trans-disciplinary researches of mathematics and other fields (random and complex phenomena related to the earth and environmental science, life sciences, etc).