Dr Alice Peng
Lecturer in Mathematics and AIResearch Interests
My research lies at the intersection of mathematical biology, numerical analysis and scientific computing. I develop mathematical and computational models to understand and investigate the cell-tissue interactions, with applications including wound healing, tissue contraction, cell deformation during migration, cancer invasion, and ultrasound-assisted drug delivery in the brain. A central theme of my research is bridging and comparing models at different scales via Dirac delta distributions: from agent-based models to continuum-based model in the form of partial differential equations. Recent work combines experimental imaging data with information on cell proliferation and migration to study wound closure. Moreover, I investigate travelling waves and numerical methods for modelling wildfire propagation. Techniques including agent-based modelling, dynamical system, numerical analysis, finite-element method, and scientific programming.
PhD Supervision Interests
I am interested in projects related to (1) mathematical modelling in biology of cell migrations, cell-tissue interaction in various diseases such as wound healing and cancer/tumor, (2) model upscaling from agent-based to continuum-based model and (3) numerical analysis.
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24/09/2026 → 24/09/2026
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MARS: Mathematics for AI in Real-world Systems
- DSAIL - Health
- MARS: Mathematics for AI in Real-world Systems