學歷/Education

2004-07 Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics, I. Kant State University of Russia, Russia

1999-2004 M.S. in Theoretical Physics, Kaliningrad State University, Russia

Professional Experiences

• 2020 - present, Associate Investigator, Institute of Biomed Eng & Nanomed., National Health Research Institutes (NHRI), Taiwan
  
• 2020 - present, Associate Professor (joint appointment), Engineering Science and Ocean Engineering Department, National Taiwan University (NTU), Taiwan
• 2015 - 2019, Assistant Investigator, Institute of Biomed Eng & Nanomed., National Health Research Institutes (NHRI), Taiwan
  
• 2016 - 2019, Assistant Professor (joint appointment), Engineering Science and Ocean Engineering Department, National Taiwan University (NTU), Taiwan
• 2012 - 2014/12, Research Associate, National Taiwan University, Taida Institute for Mathematical Sciences (TIMS), Center for Advanced Study in Theoretical Sciences (CASTS)
• 2011 - 2012, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, National Taiwan University, Center for Advanced Study in Theoretical Sciences (CASTS)
• 2009 - 2011, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, National Taiwan University, Department of Engineering Science and Ocean Engineering
• 2008 - 2009, Associate Professor (Docent), Theoretical Physics Department, I. Kant State University of Russia.
• 2005 - 2008, Assistant Professor of Theoretical Physics Department, I. Kant State University of Russia.

Research Interests

High intensity focused ultrasound ablation, nonlinear acoustics, treatment planning, High Performance Computing, computational fluid dynamics, kinetic theory

Research Activities & Accomplishment

Awards

• 2020/08, Dean’s Award (College of Engineering, National Taiwan University) best PhD thesis (supervised PhD student Filip Ivancic)
• 2020/07, Best Paper Award by PhD Student Kumar Saurabh: Taiwan Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 24-25 July, 2020
• 2019/05, Excellent Poster Award by PhD Student Filip Ivancic: Taiwan society for industrial and applied mathematics, National Tsing Hua University, 25~26, May, 2019
• 2018/03, NHRI (National Health Research Institutes) Best Paper Award, “Conservative and Thermoviscous Balance Models in Nonlinear Acoustics”, (advised: postdoc Manuel Diaz).
• 2014/10, Young Investigator Award at 1st Global Conference on Biomedical Engineering (GCBME 2014) and 9th Asian Pacific Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering (APCMBE 2014), Tainan, Taiwan
• 2014/08, Best Paper Award at 21th National Computational Fluid Dynamics Conference, Taiwan
• 2013, Best Research Paper Award for Young Researcher by National Science Council (now it is renamed as Ministry of Science and Technology)
• 2012-2015, Who is Who in the World
• 2006/09, The best report of a young researcher at XVIII Session of the Russian Acoustical Society
• 2006-2007, Scholar of the President of the Russian Federation

Editorial Boards

• American Journal of Applied Mathematics
• Significances of Bioengineering and Biosciences
• SM Journal of Minimally Invasive Surgery

Journal Reviewers

• International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer; Medical Physics; Plos One; Computers in Biology and Medicine, Physics Letters A, Journal of Acoustical Society of America, AIP Advances, Communications in Computational Physics, Ultrasonics, Ultrasonics Sonochemistry

Selected Publications

1. F. Ivancic, T.W.H. Sheu*, M. Solovchuk*, Arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian-Type Finite Element Methods Formulation for PDEs on Time-Dependent Domains with Vanishing Discrete Space Conservation Law, SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, 41(3), A1548-A1573, 2019.
2. E. Zilonova, M. Solovchuk*, T. W. H. Sheu*, Dynamics of bubble-bubble interactions experiencing viscoelastic drag, Physical Review E, 99(2), 023109, 2019.
3. E. Zilonova, M. Solovchuk*, T. W. H. Sheu, Simulation of cavitation enhanced temperature elevation in a soft tissue during high-intensity focused ultrasound thermal therapy, Ultrasonics Sonochemistry, 53, 11-24, 2019.
4. Symphony Chakraborty, Filip Ivancic, Maxim Solovchuk, Tony Wen-Hann Sheu*, Stability and dynamics of a chemotaxis system with deformed free-surface in a shallow chamber, Physics of Fluids, 30, 071904, 2018.
5. Manuel A. DIaz, Maxim Solovchuk*, Tony W. H. Sheu, High-performance multi-GPU solver for describing nonlinear acoustic waves in homogeneous thermoviscous media, Computers&Fluids, 173, 195-205, 2018.
6. Manuel A. DIaz, Maxim Solovchuk*, Tony W. H. Sheu, A conservative numerical scheme for modeling nonlinear acoustic propagation in thermoviscous media, Journal of Computational Physics,Vol. 363, pp. 200-230, 2018.
7. E. Zilonova, M. Solovchuk*, T. W. H. Sheu, Bubble dynamics in viscoelastic soft tissue in high-intensity focal ultrasound thermal therapy, Ultrasonics Sonochemistry, 40, 900-911, 2018
8. Maxim A. Solovchuk*, Marc Thiriet, Tony W. H. Sheu*, Computational study of acoustic streaming and heating during acoustic hemostasis, Applied Thermal Engineering, 124, 1112-1122, 2017
9. Maxim A. Solovchuk*, Tony W. H. Sheu*, Marc Thiriet, Multiphysics Modeling of Liver Tumor Ablation by High Intensity Focused Ultrasound, Communication in Computational Physics, 18(04), 1050-1071, 2015
10. Maxim A. Solovchuk*, San Chao Hwang, Hsu Chang, Marc Thiriet, Tony W. H. Sheu*, Temperature elevation by HIFU in ex-vivo porcine muscle: MRI measurement and simulation study, Medical Physics, 2014, 41, 052903
11. Maxim A. Solovchuk*, Tony W. H. Sheu*, Marc Thiriet, Image-based computational model for focused ultrasound ablation of liver tumor, Journal of Computational Surgery, 1:4, 2014 (invited article)
12. Maxim A. Solovchuk, Tony W. H. Sheu, Marc Thiriet, Simulation of nonlinear Westervelt equation for addressing the acoustic streaming and nonlinear propagation effects, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 134(5), pp. 3931-3942, 2013
13. Maxim A. Solovchuk, Tony W. H. Sheu, Marc Thiriet ,W. L. Lin, On a computational study for investigating acoustic streaming and heating during focused ultrasound ablation of liver tumor, Applied Thermal Engineering, 56 (1-2) , pp. 62-76, 2013
14. Maxim A. Solovchuk, Tony W. H. Sheu, W. L. Lin, Ihyuan Kuo, M. Thiriet, Simulation study on acoustic streaming and convective cooling in blood vessels during a high-intensity focused ultrasound thermal ablation, Int. J. Heat and Mass Transfer, 55 (4), pp. 1261-1270, 2012
15. Maxim A. Solovchuk, Tony W. H. Sheu. Prediction of strong shock structure using the bimodal distribution function, Phys. Rev. E, 83, 026301 ,2011
16. Tony W. H. Sheu, Maxim A. Solovchuk, Alex W. J. Chen, Marc Thiriet, “On an acoustics-thermal-fluid coupling model for the prediction of temperature elevation in liver tumor”, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 54 (17-18), pp. 4117-4126, 2011
17. Maxim A. Solovchuk, Tony W. H. Sheu, Prediction of shock structure using the bimodal distribution function, Phys. Rev. E 81, 056314 ,2010
18. D. A. Vereshchagin, S. B. Leble, M. A. Solovchuk. Piecewise continuous distribution function method in the theory of wave disturbances of inhomogeneous gas. Physics Letters A Volume 348, Issues 3-6, Pages 326-334 ,2006