Research

Two themes drive the work in our group, combining rigorous numerical analysis with scalable software and industrial applications.

Heterogeneous Helmholtz scattering

Heterogeneous Helmholtz scattering

High-Frequency Wave Propagation

Domain decomposition preconditioners for Helmholtz and Maxwell equations. With collaborators we established the first wavenumber-explicit convergence theory for RAS with impedance and PML transmission conditions, and built massively parallel solvers tested at industrial scale.

Representative work: Math. Comp. 2023 · Numer. Math. 2022 · IMA J. Numer. Anal. 2021 · PML 2024

DLD microfluidic simulation

Fluid-Structure Interaction in Complicated Domains

Robust finite element solvers for the Stokes equation in tight domains with periodic pillars, combining sharp inf–sup analysis with scalable preconditioning and high-order ALE discretizations. Driven by industrial applications including microfluidic chip design (DLD particle separation, predictive 3D microfluidic frameworks).

Representative work: Stokes inf-sup 2026 · Localized ALE 2026 · DLM-ALE 2026

News

We are hiring. Postdoc and PhD positions in numerical analysis, scientific computing, and AI for CAE are now open.

Upcoming

  • 2026.12 DD30 — 30th International Domain Decomposition Conference. I plan to organize a minisymposium. Bogotá, Colombia · Dec 6–11.
  • 2026.08 EASIAM 2026 — 19th East Asia SIAM Annual Meeting. Jeju, Korea.
  • 2026.07 CMAM 2026 — Computational Methods in Applied Mathematics. TU Wien, Vienna, Austria · Jul 20–24.
  • 2026.07 14th AIMS Conference on Dynamical Systems, Differential Equations and Applications. Athens, Greece · Jul 6–10.
  • 2026.06 ICAM 2026 — International Conference on Applied Mathematics. City University of Hong Kong.

Recent

  • 2025.02 Plenary speaker at the KAUST International Research Conference on Multi-Grid and Multi-Scale Methods in Computational Science (IMG 2025).
  • 2024.07 Joined the steering committee of the Tsinghua Sanya Workshop on Advanced Solvers for Frequency-Domain Wave Problems.

Openings

Now hiring. Strong applicants will receive prompt replies.

Postdoctoral Fellow (SSE, CUHK-Shenzhen)

Open positions in numerical analysis, large-scale scientific computing, and AI for CAE. Topics include finite element methods, linear/nonlinear preconditioning, high-frequency wave scattering, fluid–structure interaction, and AI-accelerated solvers for industrial simulation. Competitive package with provincial and university subsidies; eligible to apply for grants as PI.

Full posting & benefits (CUHK-SZ) Email me

PhD Students & Visiting Scholars

I am also recruiting motivated PhD students (admission via CUHK-Shenzhen, fall 2026) and welcoming visiting scholars / students in numerical PDEs, domain decomposition, finite element methods, and scientific machine learning.

Email your CV, transcripts, and a short research statement to gongshihua@cuhk.edu.cn.

Group

Members and alumni of the research group at SSE, CUHK-Shenzhen.

Postdoctoral Fellows

  • Tian Tian · 2025 – 2027

PhD Students

  • Qi Xin · 2023 – 2027
  • Yue Yu · 2023 – 2027
  • Jiahao Ma · 2026 – 2030
  • Liuming Zeng · 2026 – 2030

MPhil Students

  • Xiang Zhou · 2025 – 2027

Visiting Students

  • Linghan Huang · 2025 – 2026
  • Yan Xie · 2024 – 2025
  • Haijun Zou · 2023 – 2024

Alumni

  • Luyu Cen · Postdoc, 2023 – 2025 → Lecturer, CUHK-Shenzhen
  • Jinkai Zheng · MPhil, 2023 – 2025 → Engineer, Shenzhen Big Data Research Institute

Looking to join? See the Openings section above.

Funding & Industry

Active and recent grants, plus industry collaborations.

Grants

  • New Scenarios and New Technologies Project · Guangdong Core Software Research Program, 2025–2026 · Technical Coordinator
    Novel structured Arbitrary-Lagrangian–Eulerian solvers for fluid–structure interactions.
  • International Cooperation & Exchange Program · NSFC, 2024–2026 · PI
    Iterative solvers and analysis for high-frequency Hodge wave equations. Joint with Kaibo Hu, Univ. of Edinburgh.
  • General Program, NSFC · 2024–2027 · co-PI
    Novel high-order adaptive FEM methods for antenna simulation in the frequency-domain. (PI: Huayi Wei, Xiangtan University)
  • Young Scientists Program, NSFC · 2023–2025 · PI
    Iterative solvers for the Helmholtz equation at high and multiple frequencies and convergence analysis.
  • General Program, Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation · 2023–2025 · PI
    Nonlinear and linear preconditioners for multiscale fluid–structure interaction problems with collisions.
  • Stable Support Plan Program, Shenzhen Science, Technology and Innovation Commission · 2022–2025 · PI
    Scalable solvers for frequency-domain wave equations in complex geometric domains and heterogeneous media.
  • General Program, Shenzhen Natural Science Foundation · 2022–2025 · Participant
    The effects of geometry and topology on nonlinear PDEs. (PI: Xingbin Pan)

Industry Collaborations

  • Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. · 2023–2024
    Domain decomposition methods for the time-harmonic Maxwell equation, supporting frequency-domain wave solvers in industrial scattering simulations.

Teaching

Courses taught at SSE, CUHK-Shenzhen, and earlier teaching.
★ marks a first offering.

Lecturer · CUHK-Shenzhen

  • MAT5120 Functional Analysis (graduate) Spring 2026
  • MAT4010 Functional Analysis Spring 2026
  • MAT5620 Methods of Applied Mathematics Fall 2025
  • MAT7620 Topics in Scientific Computing Spring 2025
  • MAT2040 Linear Algebra Fall 2024
  • MAT4240 Numerical Methods for Differential Equations Spring 2024
  • MAT1002 Calculus II Spring 2024
  • MAT1002 Calculus II Spring 2023
  • MAT7620 Topics in Scientific Computing Fall 2022
  • MAT4010 Functional Analysis Spring 2022

Earlier Teaching

  • Tutor, Programming and Discrete Mathematics · University of Bath, UK 2021
  • Teaching Assistant, Finite Element Methods · Pennsylvania State University, USA 2018
  • Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Fluid Mechanics · Peking University 2015
  • Teaching Assistant, Functions of a Real Variable & Functional Analysis · Peking University 2014–2015
  • Teaching Assistant, Linear Algebra · Peking University 2014

All Publications

Reverse chronological. * denotes corresponding author. Google Scholar.

2026 (preprints)

L. Shen, Y. Zhang, Y. Chen, X. Ding, P. Wen, C. Wang, P. Sun, S. Gong, J. Xu, et al. A high-fidelity 3D fluid–structure interaction framework for predictive microfluidic design. bioRxiv, 2026.04.28.721227, 2026.
Q. Xin, S. Gong*, J. Xu. Sharp inf-sup estimate for the Stokes equation in tight domains with periodic pillars and some numerical implications. arXiv:2604.12643, 2026. arXiv
L. Shen, Q. Xin, Y. Chen, J. Han, J. Xu, Y. Zhang, S. Gong*. A monolithic localized high-order ALE finite element method for multi-scale fluid–structure interaction problems. arXiv:2602.02003, 2026. arXiv
Q. Xin, S. Gong*, L. Shen, P. Wen, Y. Zhang, Y. Chen, J. Han, J. Xu. High-order DLM-ALE discretizations with robust operator preconditioning for fluid–rigid-body interaction. arXiv:2602.01094, 2026. arXiv
Y. Xie, S. Gong*, I. G. Graham, E. A. Spence, C.-S. Zhang. Massively parallel Schwarz methods for the high-frequency Helmholtz equation. Proc. 29th Domain Decomposition Conference, 2026. arXiv

In preparation

Y. Xie, S. Gong*, I. G. Graham, E. A. Spence. Massively parallel domain decomposition methods for solving the Helmholtz equation in O(k) runtime.
L. Cen, S. Gong*, E. A. Spence, Y. Yu. Restricted additive Schwarz method with local impedance boundary conditions for the time-harmonic Maxwell equation.
X. Qi, S. Gong*, Y. Zhang, L. Shen, P. Sun, J. Xu, J. Han, Y. Chen. A comparison of different computational models for numerical simulation of particulate flow in DLD microfluidic chips.

2024 – 2025

Y. Zhang, X. Cheng, D. Yi, S. Gong, M. Zhou, C. Nan. Dislocation-induced giant dielectric and piezoelectric responses in BaTiO3 single crystals by phase-field simulations. Acta Materialia, 121469, 2025.
S. Gong, Y.-J. Lee, Y. Li, Y. Yu. Positivity and maximum principle preserving discontinuous Galerkin finite element schemes for a coupled flow and transport. J. Sci. Comput., 103(1): 20, 2025. arXiv
J. Galkowski, S. Gong, I. G. Graham, D. Lafontaine, E. A. Spence. Schwarz methods with PMLs for Helmholtz problems: fast convergence at high frequency. Proc. 28th Domain Decomposition Conference, 2025. arXiv
S. Fu, S. Gong, G. Li, Y. Wang. On edge multiscale space based hybrid Schwarz preconditioner for Helmholtz problems with large wavenumbers. arXiv:2408.08198, 2024. arXiv
J. Galkowski, S. Gong, I. G. Graham, D. Lafontaine, E. A. Spence. Convergence of overlapping domain decomposition methods with PML transmission conditions applied to nontrapping Helmholtz problems. arXiv:2404.02156, 2024. arXiv

2021 – 2023

S. Gong, I. G. Graham, E. A. Spence. Convergence of restricted additive Schwarz with impedance transmission conditions for discretised Helmholtz problems. Math. Comp., 92(339): 175–215, 2023. arXiv DOI
S. Gong, M. J. Gander, I. G. Graham, D. Lafontaine, E. A. Spence. Convergence of parallel overlapping domain decomposition methods for the Helmholtz equation. Numer. Math., 152: 259–306, 2022. arXiv DOI
S. Gong, M. J. Gander, I. G. Graham, E. A. Spence. A variational interpretation of restricted additive Schwarz with impedance transmission condition for the Helmholtz problem. Proc. Int. Conf. on Domain Decomposition Methods (DD26), 2021.
S. Gong, I. G. Graham, E. A. Spence. Domain decomposition preconditioners for high-order discretisations of the heterogeneous Helmholtz equation. IMA J. Numer. Anal., 41(3): 2139–2185, 2021. DOI

2017 – 2019

S. Gong, S. Wu, J. Xu. New hybridized mixed methods for linear elasticity and optimal multilevel solvers. Numer. Math., 141: 569–604, 2019. DOI
S. Gong, X.-C. Cai. A nonlinear elimination preconditioned inexact Newton method for heterogeneous hyperelasticity. SIAM J. Sci. Comput., 41(5): S390–S408, 2019. DOI Code
S. Gong, X.-C. Cai. A nonlinear elimination preconditioned Newton method with applications in arterial wall simulation. Proc. Int. Conf. on Domain Decomposition Methods (DD24), 353–361, 2019.
S. Wu, S. Gong, J. Xu. Interior penalty mixed finite element methods of any order in any dimension for linear elasticity with strongly symmetric stress tensor. Math. Models Methods Appl. Sci., 27(14): 2711–2743, 2017. DOI
W. Hao, S. Gong, S. Wu, J. Xu, M. R. Go, A. Friedman, D. Zhu. A mathematical model of aortic aneurysm formation. PLOS ONE, 12(2): e0170807, 2017. DOI

* denotes corresponding author. See Google Scholar for citations and the CV for the full record.

Talks

Selected plenary, invited, and seminar talks since 2017. Full list in the CV.

Plenary & Keynote

  • Plenary speaker, KAUST International Research Conference on Multi-Grid and Multi-Scale Methods in Computational Science (IMG 2025). KAUST, Saudi Arabia · Feb 3–5, 2025. link
  • Invited Conference talk, International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians (ICCM). 2025 (held Apr 1, 2026).

Invited Minisymposium Talks

  • Fast Solvers for Numerical PDEs, HKSIAM Biennial Conference. CUHK, Hong Kong · Jul 7–11, 2025.
  • International Conference on Domain Decomposition Methods (DD29). Milan, Italy · Jun 23–27, 2025.
  • 15th International Conference on Large-Scale Scientific Computations. Sozopol, Bulgaria · Jun 16–20, 2025.
  • PREC24 Conference on Preconditioning. Georgia Tech, Atlanta, USA · Jun 11, 2024.
  • International Conference on Domain Decomposition Methods (DD28). KAUST, Saudi Arabia · Jan 28 – Feb 1, 2024.

Selected Seminars & Workshops

  • SSE Weekly Colloquium, CUHK-Shenzhen. Nov 30, 2025.
  • Seminar on Fast Solvers in Scientific Computing, Tongji University. Nov 27, 2025.
  • 14th China Mathematical Society Computational Mathematics Biennial Conference. Aug 20, 2025.
  • Seminar at Edinburgh University (host: Kaibo Hu). Jun 9, 2025.
  • 4th Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Conference on Computational Science. May 17, 2025.
  • Workshop on Advanced Solvers for Frequency-Domain Wave Problems and Applications, TSIMF Sanya. Jan 20–24, 2025.
  • Workshop on SC and AI @ BIMSA. Nov 3, 2024.
  • CSIAM Annual Meeting, Nanjing. Oct 27, 2024.
  • International Conference on Applied Mathematics, CityU of Hong Kong. Jun 1, 2024.
  • ICIAM, Tokyo, Japan. Aug 20–25, 2023.
  • International Conference on Domain Decomposition Methods (DD27, mixed mode), Prague. Jul 25–29, 2022.
  • Huawei–CUHKSZ Workshop on Mathematical Problems in Industry, Shenzhen. Jul 8, 2022.

Conference & Workshop Organization

  • Minisymposium organizer (DD29) — Robust Parallel Solvers for Linear, Nonlinear, and Multi-Physics Problems, 12 talks. Milan, Italy · Jun 23–27, 2025. link
  • Lead organizer, Workshop on Advanced Solvers for Frequency-Domain Wave Problems and Applications, 50 participants. Tsinghua Sanya International Mathematics Forum · Jan 20–24, 2025. link
  • Organizing committee chair, Summer School on Scientific Computing and Machine Learning, 28 lecturers, 104 students. CUHK-SZ · CUHK · SRIBD, Jul 8–19, 2024. link talk recordings
  • Lead organizer, Workshop on Numerical Algorithms for Microfluidic Chip Simulations, 13 talks. Shenzhen ICIAM · May 18–20, 2024.
  • Lead organizer, Minisymposium at DD27 — Parallel Solvers for Helmholtz Problems, 10 talks. Prague, Czech Republic · Jul 25–29, 2022. link