博士，硕士生导师，2018年获上海大学计算机工程与科学学院计算机科学与技术博士学位，美国科罗拉多大学博尔德分校联合培养博士。2018年8月加入先进院工作至今，研究方向为计算数学、计算流体力学和大规模并行计算。针对计算流体力学，自主开发了一套面向超级计算机的并行数值模拟软件包。主持国家自然科学基金青年项目、广东省面上项目。在SISC、PRE、PoF、IJMHT、JCAM、CICP等高水平期刊上发表学术论文20余篇。获得中国超算最佳应用提名和深圳市科技进步二等奖。

计算数学，计算流体力学，大规模并行计算

[1] Lei Xu, Qingyang Zhang, Kai Lu, Zhengzheng Yan, Chunye Gong, Shengguo Li, Lin Chen, Xinhai Chen, Xuchuan Lin, Jie Liu, Zheng Wang, Rongliang Chen, Towards megacity-scale wind flow simulations on many-core CPU-accelerator systems, SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, accepted.
[2] Lei Xu, Rongliang Chen, Xiao-Chuan Cai, A fully implicit unstructured finite volume lattice Boltzmann method for incompressible flows, Communications in Computational Physics, accepted.
[3] Lei Xu, Rongliang Chen, Linyan Gu, Wu Zhang, A parallel domain decomposition-based implicit finite volume lattice Boltzmann method for incompressible thermal convection flows on unstructured grids, Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, 465, 116578 (2025).
[4] Linyan Gu, Shanlin Qin, Lei Xu*, Rongliang Chen*, Physics-informed neural networks with domain     decomposition for the incompressible Navier–Stokes equations, Physics of Fluids, 36, 021914 (2024).
[5] Lei Xu, Wu Zhang, Yuhui Chen, Rongliang Chen, A parallel discrete unified gas kinetic schemeon unstructured grid for inviscid high-speed compressible flow simulation, Physics of Fluids, 34, 106110 (2022).