Lifeng Han

About Me

Hi! I am a postdoctoral fellow at the US Food and Drug Administration. I graduated with my PhD in applied math from Arizona State University.

Research Interest

I am currently working on mathemtical modeling of cancer immunotherapy.

For my PhD research, I worked in the field of mathematical biology. I studied cancer using mathematical models with a focus on temporal and spatial dynamics that arises from time delay and stochasticity. As part of the group of Prof Yang Kuang and Prof Eric Kostelich, I have worked on extracting digital markers from MRI data to infer patient-specific parameters for a partial differential equation model.

Under the advise of Prof John Fricks, I have developed a computationally efficient method to get asymptotic velocity and diffusivity of a group of motors.

Publications

  1. (Accepted) Analysis of tumor-immune functional responses in a mathematical model of cancer vaccines
  2. (Submitted) Reaction-diffusion Modeling of E. Coli Colony Growth based on Nutrient Distribution and Agar Dehydration
  3. Han, L., He, C., Dinh, H., Fricks, J., & Kuang, Y. (2022). Learning Biological Dynamics From Spatio-Temporal Data by Gaussian Processes. Bulletin of mathematical biology, 84(7), 1-20.
  4. Goeschl, J. D., & Han, L. (2020). A Proposed Drought Response Equation Added to the Münch-Horwitz Theory of Phloem Transport. Frontiers in Plant Science, 11.
  5. Han, L., He, C., & Kuang, Y. (2020). Dynamics of a model of tumor-immune interaction with time delay and noise. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems-S, 13(9), 2347.
  6. Han, L., Eikenberry, S., He, C., Johnson, L., Preul, M. C., Kostelich, E. J., & Kuang, Y. (2019). Patient-specific parameter estimates of glioblastoma multiforme growth dynamics from a model with explicit birth and death rates. Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering.
  7. Ohashi, K. G., Han, L. , Mentley, B., Wang, J., Fricks, J., & Hancock, W. O. (2019). Load-dependent detachment kinetics play a key role in bidirectional cargo transport by kinesin and dynein. Traffic (Copenhagen, Denmark).