Curriculum Vitae of Jun Zhang

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Full Name: Jun Zhang

HOME ADDRESS

WORK ADDRESS

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Scientific and parallel computing, computational sciences;
• Information retrieval, data mining and knowledge discovery;
• Bioinformatics and biomodeling;
• Large scale numerical modeling and simulation;
• Robust multilevel preconditioning techniques for large scale problems;
• Multigrid and Krylov subspace iterative methods for large sparse linear systems;
• Parallel iterative methods and their applications to large scale and high performance computing;
• Numerical approximations, computational optimization.

EDUCATION

• Doctor of Philosophy in Mathematics, The George Washington University, 1997.
  Dissertation Title: Multigrid Acceleration Techniques and Applications to the Numerical Solution of Partial Differential Equations.
  Dissertation advisor: Professor Murli M. Gupta.
  
• Master of Philosophy in Mathematics, The George Washington University, 1996.
  
• Postgraduate Diploma in Science, University of Queensland, Australia, 1993.
  
• Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics, Chongqing University, Chongqing, China, 1985.( Overseas Alumni of Chongqing University).
  

WORK EXPERIENCE

• Professor of Computer Science, University of Kentucky (July 2006 - present);
  
• Associate Professor of Computer Science, University of Kentucky (July 2002 - June 2006);
  
• Acting Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Computer Science, University of Kentucky, Spring 2002.
• Director, Laboratory for High Performance Scientific Computing and Computer Simulation, University of Kentucky, 2000 - present.
• Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of Kentucky (August 1998 - June 2002);
  
• Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota , (March 1997 - August 1998);
  
• Teaching and Research Assistant, The George Washington University (September 1993 - December 1996);
  
• Teaching and Research Assistant, University of Queensland, Australia (1993);
  
• Research Scientist, Research Computing Center, Sichuan, China (1985 - 1992);
  

AWARDS

• U.S. National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Award, 2001;
  
• University of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute Research Scholarship, 1998;
  
• University of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute Travel Award, 1998;
  
• James H. Taylor Prize for outstanding performance in mathematics, 1997;
  
• Honorable Mention in SIAM Student Paper Competition, 1997;
  
• SIAM Student Travel Award - SIAM Applied Linear Algebra Conference (declined), 1996;
  
• SIAM Student Travel Award - SIAM 1996 Annual Meeting, 1996;
  
• Marvin Green Prize for outstanding performance in mathematics and/or computer science, 1996;
  
• The George Washington University Fellowship (1993 - 1996);
  
• Australian Development Co-operation Scholarship (1992 - 1993);
  
• University of Queensland Summer Vacation Scholarship (1992 - 1993);
  

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

• Invited by the President of Academic Board of the University of Queensland for the review of the Department of Mathematics of the University of Queensland, Australia, 1999.
• Program Committee Member on The 1999 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications, Las Vegas, Nevada, June 28 - July 1, 1999.
• Co-Organizer (with Jennifer Zhao) of a special session on Numerical Analysis and Computational Mathematics in AMS Regional Conference in Las Vegas, April 10 - 11, 1999.
• Associate Editor, Proceeding of the 1999 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications, CSREA Press, 1999.
• Associate Editor of the Journal of Computing and Applied Mathematics (an internatioal journal), 2001 - 2004.
• Member of the Editorial Board for:
• International Journal of Nonlinear Sciences and Numerical Simulation, 1999 - present;
• International Journal of Nonlinear Modeling in Science and Engineering, 2000 - present.
• Referee for the following professional research journals:
• AIAA Journal, 2000;
• Applied Mathematics Letters, 2002;
• Applied Numerical Mathematics, 2001;
• Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering, 1999, 2000;
• Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 2001;
• International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flows, 2000;
• Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, 1997, 1999;
• Journal of Computational Physics, 2000;
• Journal of Image Communications, 2001;
• Journal of Scientific Computing, 2001;
• Numerical Linear Algebra with Applications, 2000 (2);
• Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations, 1999(2), 2000, 2001(2);
• Parallel Processing Letters, 2002.
• SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis with Applications, 2002.
• SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, 1998.
• Panel and mail-in review for the U.S. National Science Foundation.

RESEARCH FUNDING

I have obtained a few research funds to support my research, please check here for detailed list.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP

• Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics;
• American Mathematical Society (until 1997).

REFEREED RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS:

I have authored and co-authored more than 70 research articles, of which more than 60 research papers have been published or accepted for publication in refereed journals in scientific computing and computational mathematics from 1995. Please see the list of my recent publications (from 1995) by clicking here.

SEMINAR AND CONFERENCE TALKS:

Please see the list of invited and contributed lectures by clicking here.

COMPUTER EXPERIENCE

• Computers: MasPar, Cray-90, Sun, SGI, PC, etc.
  
• Language: MPI, Fortran, Fortran 90, Ada, C, C++, HTML-WWW, Matlab, Mathematica, Maple, etc.
  

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