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Publications (35)

math.AP2022

Stirring Speeds Up Chemical Reaction

Siming He, Alexander Kiselev

We consider absorbing chemical reactions in a fluid flow modeled by the coupled advection-reaction-diffusion equations. In these systems, the interplay between chemical diffusion a…

math.DG2012

Distance comparison principle and Grayson type theorem in the three dimensional curve shortening flow

Siming He

In this paper, we use the distance comparison principle, first been developed by G. Huisken, to study the spatial curve shortening flow. We have got the result that if the initial…

math.AP2026

Localized Enhanced Dissipation: A Hypocoercivity Approach

Siming He

In this paper, we consider the passive scalar solutions in shear flows with critical points. With a detailed hypocoercivity functional, we develop streamline-wise enhanced dissipat…

math.AP2023

Stability threshold of nearly-Couette shear flows with Navier boundary conditions in 2D

Jacob Bedrossian, Siming He, Sameer Iyer +1

In this work, we prove a threshold theorem for the 2D Navier-Stokes equations posed on the periodic channel, , supplemented with Navier boundary condition…

math.AP2025

Mixing, Enhanced Dissipation and Phase Transition in the Kinetic Vicsek Model

Mengyang Gu, Siming He

In this paper, we study the kinetic Vicsek model, which serves as a starting point for describing the polarization phenomena observed in the experiments of fibroblasts moving on li…

cs.RO2026

FARM: Find Anything using Relational Spatial Memory

Siming He, Leo Huang, Adam Lilja +7

Robots operating in homes, warehouses, and other object-rich environments need memory systems that can find specific object instances on demand. Object-level memory alone is often…

math.AP2023

A Note on Enhanced Dissipation and Taylor Dispersion of Time-dependent Shear Flows

Daniel Coble, Siming He

This paper explores the phenomena of enhanced dissipation and Taylor dispersion in solutions to the passive scalar equations subject to time-dependent shear flows. The hypocoercivi…

math.AP2020

Small scale creation for solutions of the SQG equation

Siming He, Alexander Kiselev

We construct examples of solutions to the conservative surface quasi-geostrophic (SQG) equation that must either exhibit infinite in time growth of derivatives or blow up in finite…

math.AP2023

Enhanced dissipation and blow-up suppression in a chemotaxis-fluid system

Siming He

In this paper, we investigate a coupled Patlak-Keller-Segel-Navier-Stokes (PKS-NS) system. We show that globally regular solutions with arbitrary large cell populations exist. The…

math.AP2026

Couette Flow with Robin Boundary Condition (I): the viscosity-independent friction

Siming He, Binqian Niu, Weiren Zhao

This article is the first paper in the series. In this series of articles, we will examine the influence of the friction factor at the solid--fluid boundary on the stability o…

math.AP2024

Pseudo-Gevrey Smoothing for the Passive Scalar Equations near Couette

Jacob Bedrossian, Siming He, Sameer Iyer +1

In this article, we study the regularity theory for two linear equations that are important in fluid dynamics: the passive scalar equation for (time-varying) shear flows close to C…

math.AP2024

Uniform Inviscid Damping and Inviscid Limit of the 2D Navier-Stokes equation with Navier Boundary Conditions

Jacob Bedrossian, Siming He, Sameer Iyer +1

We consider the 2D, incompressible Navier-Stokes equations near the Couette flow, , set on the channel , supplemented with Navier b…

math.AP2018

Suppressing chemotactic blow-up through a fast splitting scenario on the plane

Siming He, Eitan Tadmor

We revisit the question of global regularity for the Patlak-Keller-Segel (PKS) chemotaxis model. The classical 2D hyperbolic-elliptic model blows up for initial mass M>8π. We cons…

cs.RO2026

An Active Perception Game for Robust Exploration

Siming He, Yuezhan Tao, Igor Spasojevic +2

Active perception approaches select future viewpoints by using some estimate of the information gain. An inaccurate estimate can be detrimental in critical situations, e.g., locati…

math.AP2017

Suppression of blow-up in Parabolic-Parabolic Patlak-Keller-Segel via strictly monotone shear flows

Siming He

In this paper we consider the parabolic-parabolic Patlak-Keller-Segel models in with advection by a large strictly monotone shear flow. Without the she…

math.AP2017

Global regularity of two-dimensional flocking hydrodynamics

Siming He, Eitan Tadmor

We study the systems of Euler equations which arise from agent-based dynamics driven by velocity \emph{alignment}. It is known that smooth solutions of such systems must flock, nam…

math.AP2024

Time-dependent Flows and Their Applications in Parabolic-parabolic Patlak-Keller-Segel Systems Part I: Alternating Flows

Siming He

We consider the three-dimensional parabolic-parabolic Patlak-Keller-Segel equations (PKS) subject to ambient flows. Without the ambient fluid flow, the equation is super-critical i…

math.AP2021

On the -critical mass threshold of a Patlak-Keller-Segel-Navier-Stokes system

Yishu Gong, Siming He

In this paper, we proposed a coupled Patlak-Keller-Segel-Navier-Stokes system, which has dissipative free energy. On the plane $\rr^2$, if the total mass of the cells is strictly l…

cs.CY2026

Digital Engagement, Income Disparities, and Job Seeking in the United States since 2010

Shaolong Wu, Yijiang River Dong, Siming He

The paper analyzes U.S. survey data to show that people who use the internet daily earn more and are more likely to be continuously employed than those who use it less or not at al…

#digital engagement#income disparity#labor market outcomes#job seeking behavior
math.AP2025

Stability threshold of close-to-Couette shear flows with no-slip boundary conditions in 2D

Jacob Bedrossian, Siming He, Sameer Iyer +2

In this paper, we develop a stability threshold theorem for the 2D incompressible Navier-Stokes equations on the channel, supplemented with the no-slip boundary condition. The init…

math.AP2020

Boundary layer models of the Hou-Luo scenario

Siming He, Alexander Kiselev

Finite time blow up vs global regularity question for 3D Euler equation of fluid mechanics is a major open problem. Several years ago, Luo and Hou \cite{HouLuo14} proposed a new fi…

math.AP2020

A game of alignment:collective behavior of multi-species

Siming He, Eitan Tadmor

We study the (hydro-)dynamics of multi-species driven by alignment. What distinguishes the different species is the protocol of their interaction with the rest of the crowd: the co…

math.OC2026

Sampling and Optimization meet Enhanced Flows

Yuan Gao, Siming He, Eitan Tadmor

It is well known that the computational realization of Gibbs probability measures, , plays a central role in sampling and optimization. In this paper…

math.AP2024

Transition Threshold for Strictly Monotone Shear Flows in Sobolev Spaces

Rajendra Beekie, Siming He

We study the stability of spectrally stable, strictly monotone, smooth shear flows in the 2D Navier-Stokes equations on with small viscosity . We…

cs.RO2024

Active Perception using Neural Radiance Fields

Siming He, Christopher D. Hsu, Dexter Ong +2

We study active perception from first principles to argue that an autonomous agent performing active perception should maximize the mutual information that past observations posses…

math.PR2022

Random search in fluid flow aided by chemotaxis

Yishu Gong, Siming He, Alexander Kiselev

In this paper, we consider the dynamics of a 2D target-searching agent performing Brownian motion under the influence of fluid shear flow and chemical attraction. The analysis is m…

cs.CV2024

From NeRFs to Gaussian Splats, and Back

Siming He, Zach Osman, Pratik Chaudhari

For robotics applications where there is a limited number of (typically ego-centric) views, parametric representations such as neural radiance fields (NeRFs) generalize better than…

cs.LG2021

Are we really making much progress? Revisiting, benchmarking, and refining heterogeneous graph neural networks

Qingsong Lv, Ming Ding, Qiang Liu +7

Heterogeneous graph neural networks (HGNNs) have been blossoming in recent years, but the unique data processing and evaluation setups used by each work obstruct a full understandi…

math.AP2021

Enhanced dissipation, hypoellipticity for passive scalar equations with fractional dissipation

Siming He

We consider the passive scalar equations subject to shear flow advection and fractional dissipation. The enhanced dissipation estimates are derived. For classical passive scalar eq…

math.AP2016

Suppression of blow-up in Patlak-Keller-Segel via shear flows

Jacob Bedrossian, Siming He

In this paper we consider the parabolic-elliptic Patlak-Keller-Segel models in with with the additional effect of advection by a large shear flow. Without the…

math.AP2021

Multi-species Patlak-Keller-Segel system

Siming He, Eitan Tadmor

We study the regularity and large-time behavior of a crowd of species driven by chemo-tactic interactions. What distinguishes the different species is the way they interact with th…

math.AP2019

Inviscid damping and enhanced dissipation of the boundary layer for 2D Navier-Stokes linearized around Couette flow in a channel

Jacob Bedrossian, Siming He

We study the 2D Navier-Stokes equations linearized around the Couette flow in the periodic channel with no-slip boundary conditions in the vanis…

math.AP2024

Time-dependent Flows and Their Applications in Parabolic-parabolic Patlak-Keller-Segel Systems Part II: Shear Flows

Siming He

In this study, we investigate the behavior of three-dimensional parabolic-parabolic Patlak-Keller-Segel (PKS) systems in the presence of ambient shear flows. Our findings demonstra…

cs.CV2026

Estimating the Diameter at Breast Height of Trees in a Forest from RGB

Siming He, Zachary Osman, Fernando Cladera +5

Forest inventories rely on accurate measurements of the diameter at breast height (DBH) for ecological monitoring, resource management, and carbon accounting. While LiDAR-based tec…

math.AP2021

On the Fast Spreading Scenario

Siming He, Eitan Tadmor, Andrej Zlatoš

We study two types of divergence-free fluid flows on unbounded domains in two and three dimensions -- hyperbolic and shear flows -- and their influence on chemotaxis and combustion…