Zhilan Julie Feng (born 1959)[1] is a Chinese-American applied mathematician whose research topics include mathematical biology, population dynamics, and epidemiology.
She came to Arizona State University for graduate study, completing her Ph.D. in 1994.
[2] Her dissertation, A Mathematical Model for the Dynamics of Childhood Diseases Under the Impact of Isolation, was supervised by Horst R.
She was promoted to full professor in 2005, and became a program director at the National Science Foundation in 2019.
[2] Feng was named a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, in the 2022 class of fellows, "for contributions to applied mathematics, particularly in biology, ecology, and epidemiology".