Rate My Professor Lingju Kong

Lingju Kong is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, where she has served since 2005, advancing from Assistant Professor to UC Foundation Associate Professor in 2010 and UC Foundation Professor in 2014. She earned her Ph.D. in Mathematics from Northern Illinois University in 2005, M.S. in Mathematics from Ocean University of China in 1999, and B.S. in Mathematics Education from Shandong Normal University in 1996. Prior roles include Graduate Teaching Assistant at Northern Illinois University from 2001 to 2005, Instructor at Ocean University of China from 1999 to 2000, and an internship at Caterpillar Inc. in 2003. Currently, she is the Graduate Program Coordinator for the Department of Mathematics and Concentration Coordinator for Computational & Applied Mathematics in the Computational Science Ph.D. program.

Her research focuses on ordinary and partial differential equations, difference equations, mathematical biology, fractional differential equations, boundary value problems, variational methods, impulsive systems, and stability analysis of models such as online social networks and epidemic dynamics. She has authored three research monographs: Multiple Solutions of Boundary Value Problems, A Variational Approach (2016); Ordinary Differential Equations and Boundary Value Problems, Volume I (2018); and Volume II (2018), all published by World Scientific. Key publications include Positive solutions for a class of higher order boundary value problems with fractional q-derivatives (Applied Mathematics and Computation, 2012, 152 citations); Existence, multiplicity, and dependence on a parameter for a periodic boundary value problem (Journal of Differential Equations, 2008, 132 citations); and A Variational Approach to a Kirchhoff-type Problem Involving Two Parameters (Results in Mathematics, 2013, 108 citations). With over 145 refereed papers and 182 total publications cited more than 2,700 times, her work appears in journals such as Nonlinear Analysis, Fractional Calculus and Applied Analysis, and Electronic Journal of Differential Equations. She has delivered over 60 presentations at conferences and organized special sessions at AMS and AIMS meetings. Awards include the UTC College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Achievement Award (2020), PI on a $96,380 CEACSE grant (2018-2019), co-PI on NSF REU grant ($296,543, 2013-2016), Outstanding Research Award (2011), and multiple UC Foundation grants and fellowships. She serves on the editorial board of Differential Equations and Applications and has refereed for over 50 journals.