
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.