Yuning Liu is Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics at NYU Shanghai. Prior to joining NYU Shanghai, he was Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Universität Regensburg, Germany. He holds a PhD from Institut Élie Cartan Nancy, France. Dr. Liu’s research interests are mathematics of fluid mechanics and control theory. His work has appeared in the SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis and ESAIM: Control, Optimization and Calculus of Variations. PhD, Applied Mathematics Institut Élie Cartan Nancy, France, 2012 MA, Mathematics Wuhan University, China, 2008 BS, Mathematics Wuhan University, China, 2006