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Yafong Song

Liberal arts professor

Education

  • Ph.D., mathematics, Washington State University
  • M.S., mathematics, Washington State University
  • B.S., mathematics, Peking University

Credentials

  • Professor, general education, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA, 2004–present
  • Assistant professor, department of mathematics, Auburn University, Montgomery, AL, 1999–2004
  • Faculty, department of pure and applied mathematics, Washington State University, 1999
  • Graduate teaching assistant, department of pure and applied mathematics, Washington State University, 1991–98
  • Instructor, extended academic programs, Washington State University, 1994–99
  • Trainee in statistics, International Statistics Census Bureau, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1986–87
  • Statistician, Provincial Statistics of HLJ, Harbin, China, 1982–94

Awards, recognitions, and honors

  • Best Paper award at ASME (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers)
  • Best Paper Award at CIE (Computers and Information in Engineering) Conference, 2001
  • Winner: Student Paper Competition at the Mathematical Association of America's Northwest Section Meeting

Publications and presentations

  • "Wave Propagation in Transient Thermoelastic Problems," Far East Journal of Applied Math. 6, No. 2, 97-116, 2002.
  • "Fuzzy Cell Mapping Applied to Autonomous Systems," Proceedings of the ASME 2001 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, Volume 1: 21st Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, Pittsburgh, Sept. 9–12, 2001, pp. 843-860.
  • "A Simple ILU Preconditioning Coupled to Orthomin Method," J. Sci. Comput. 11, no. 1, 1-12, 1996.