
Dr. Cheng, who was a faculty member at Michigan State University before arriving at Virginia Tech this fall, was honored for her work on discontinuous Galerkin methods, including structure preservation and sparse grid methods for kinetic and transport equations.
“I have long been inspired by the work of many pioneers in numerical analysis, including previous Germund Dahlquist prize winners,” said Professor Cheng. “It is a great honor for me to receive this award and learn that our work has been recognized by the community.”
Professor Cheng is a graduate of the University of Science and Technology of China. She holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in applied mathematics from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.


