Xiumin Du receives illustrious CAREER award from National Science Foundation

Xiumin Du has received the Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the foundation’s most prestigious honor for junior faculty members. Du is assistant professor of mathematics at Northwestern.

The CAREER Award is designed to support promising young faculty members who exemplify the role of teacher-scholar through the combination of outstanding research and education. It underpins the NSF’s credence that research “is enhanced by inspired teaching, enthusiastic learning, and disseminating new knowledge.” The awards, presented annually, include a federal grant for research and education activities for five consecutive years.

Du’s research interest lies in harmonic analysis and its interactions with geometric measure theory and partial differential equations (PDEs). A key idea behind harmonic analysis is to express a general function or operator as a sum of simpler parts. Harmonic analysis has countless applications in signal processing, tomography and quantum mechanics, among other areas.

Du will receive nearly $500,000 over the award’s five years for her study, Weighted Fourier extension estimates and interactions with PDEs and geometric measure theory.

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