9/6/2006, I got a Math package added to my Powerpoint, so I can type
math symbols with Powerpoint now.
Today's first seminar was OK. I think it met my expectation.
Payment to UFl was processed. It is embarrasing that we did not pay
them for almost a year.
9/2/2006, I spent the entire day on reading introductory papers on support vector machine technique and still don't understand it.
9/1/2006, extensive search of papers on brain image classification. I tried to re-organize my office, moved old papers to the top shelves and added new labels to some new topics on the lower shelves.
8/30/2006, graded NA breadth exam papers, held the first lab business
meeting of this semester.
In the past few days, several friends called or e-mail me to see if
I am OK. I would like to thank everyone for their concerns. I am still
alive and I was not on that airplane.
8/28/2006, difficult time for everything. I could not believe there are so many papers on data perturbation in privacy-preserving data mining that we did not know before. I plan to read 10 of them today, do not sleep until I finish all of them.
8/24/2006, first class was just OK. Finalized problems for NA Breadth Exam.
8/22/2006, Jie Wang's paper, entitled, "A Novel Data Distortion Approach via Selective SSVD for Privacy Protection", has been recommended for publication in the International Journal of Information and Computer Security Special Issue on Security and Privacy Aspects of Data Mining. Submitted internal approval forms for the 2nd KSEF proposal.
8/18/2006, there had been some problems with the CSR networks, communications
seemed to be down several times during the past 24 hours. Paul informed me
that Eun-Joo's machine is out of order, and he will replace it with a Dell
computer running Linix.
I also read a paper on DTI and MCI, hoped to find some hint for the stalled
paper. I also thought about research topics for the new students.
8/17/2006, farewell party for Jeonghwa. She will be driving to her new school for her new position. Four new students have been accepted into my labs, which are completely full.
8/16/2006, I started my new semester by getting into my office at 7:30AM, even before the secretaries came. I advised a few new graduate students regarding their course selections, searched a few papers on diffusion tensor imaging study on mild cognitive impairment (MCI), provided job reference for a friend.
8/15/2006, today is the last day of the Summer months and the last day for submitting work sheet for payment. It should be a special day to remember in history.
8/14/2006, met with a few new students and gave some advice regarding course selections and things to be concerned about. Some students wanted to come to my lab, but we have already run out of space. Also updated CS621 information for the coming semester.
8/13/2006, I finished the revision of the NeuroReport paper (witk Ning) and e-mailed to revised copy to Stephen. Hope we could get it re-submitted in a few days.
8/12/2006, I am done, done, done with the 2nd KSEF proposal. For the entire week, I will not mention "P-R-O-P-O-S-A-L" and remove it from my memory.
8/11/2006, finally I got the account number, and had a somewhat good looking proposal that I am not embarrassed to submit. The proposal will be revised further for a target submission on Monday. I also did some TA screening today, advised four students regarding research work and course selections.
8/9/2006, believe it or not, I have put together the first draft of the second KSEF proposal on privacy preserving data mining, based on Jie Wang's work. I have already submitted the first one on diffusion tensor imaging. 8 days to go to finish this proposal.
8/3/2006, submitted the internal approval form for one KSEF proposal, started writing the second one; wrote a reference letter for someone's green card application; dealt with a few lab related business.
8/1/2006, after two weeks of intensive work, we submitted 5 papers for the Student Paper Competition of the 2006 IMACS Symposium on Iterative Methods. My sincere thanks to Wensheng, Dianwei, Jie, Eun-Joo, Yin, Jeonghwa, for working hard with me in the past two weeks. I hope we will be able to make something happen.
7/30/2006, read a draft paper on data mining with privacy protection.
7/29/2006, I tried to revise the papers of Dianwei Han and Eun-Joo Lee today. It seems there are some major problems in the papers. I have to worry about the correctness of the analysis.
7/28/2006, discussed with students about research progress and the IMACS
conference papers; printed poster for Wensheng Shen for his SIAM
conference presentation; talked to Greg about things related to acting DGS;
requested technical report number for the paper of Wensheng Shen;
attended George Huang's farewell party, who is leaving for the chair position
of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Wright State University.
I got a box of my new business cards.
7/27/2006, revised Wensheng's paper for the IMACS conference, received the (hopefully) final award letter from the Alzheimer's Association, and resolved a problem.
7/23/2006, agreed to serve on the Program Committee of the KOSEN Workshop MTE 2006, Japan.
7/22/2006, read a few papers on privacy-preserving data mining. They do not seem to be related to our matrix decomposition based data distortion technique.
7/21/2006, we received invitations for submitting two KSEF proposals. There will be 177 proposals to compete for $1.0 million. This looks like a very fierce competition.
7/20/2006, finally submitted the final project report on the NSF award on multistep successive preconditioning techniques, 50 days after finishing the project.
7/19/2006, for the 2nd time, I was submitting the internal approval forms for an NSF proposal that was submitted several weeks ago.
7/18/2006, talked to students about research progress, proposals, and conferences.
7/17/2006, finally finished the first draft of the generalized diffusion tensor tractography proposal.
7/16/2006, finally got the 9-page narrative of the proposal done for the first run.
7/15/2006, today is Saturday, I made great progress in shortening my first KSEF proposal, which is now just slightly more than 9 pages long. I will get it under 9 pages tomorrow.
7/14/2006, submitted the Letter of Intent for a possible second KSEF proposal to do privacy sensitive data analysis.
7/12/2006, worked on the KSEF proposal.
7/11/2006, started working on KSEF proposals. I plan to submit two proposals, one with generalized diffusion tensor imaging, and another with data mining with privacy protection. The first Letter of Intent was submitted.
7/5/2006, Eun-Joo got a fellowship to attend the ACTS Workshop in Berkeley, CA, in August. It is surprising that we can send two students there. Last year, no student from our lab was accepted.
7/4/2006, Wensheng got a fellowship to attend the ACTS Workshop in Berkeley, CA, in August.
7/2/2006, NSF DTI proposal was declined.
6/27/2006, extremely busy today, spent the entire afternoon on revising the budget of a proposal. It seems the major part of a professor's work is to write proposals to get funding for research projects. However, if there are no good research assistants, how could the research projects be finished?
6/26/2006, I talked to Dianwei and Wensheng about their research work; sent out
a reference letter on behalf of someone; and
considered to submit one or two proposals to Kentucky Science & Engineering
Foundation next month, also one possible proposal Center for Disease Control.
There is also a little bit good news.
Based on the recent published journal and conference papers, diffusion
tensor MRI anaysis is still an intensively researched area, but the
motivation of our students has made our progress awkward. I plan to divide
students into two groups: those who just want to do minimum to satisfy
the degree requirements, and those who want to do leading research work
and have an ambitious agenda for the future.
6/23/2006, reviewed a few late applications as Acting Director of Graduate Studies.
6/22/2006, read a few papers on computational biology, gene sequence, miRNAs, etc. I am really crazy to start another new direction.
6/21/2006, the proposal to the UK Alzheimer's Disease Research Center was declined. This will hurt my bottom line. Everything comes with the worst results these days.
6/20/2006, reviewed another for the Journal of Computational Physics. I received a set of papers on computational biology from Dr. Tang and will read them over the next two weeks to train myself in computational biology. It seems that I have to handle everything in person to get things going.
6/19/2006, signed and sent out a copyright transfer form for a journal paper; completed the Distribution of Effort for 2006-07; submitted a paper to NeuroReport; reviewed a paper for the Journal of Computational Physics.
6/14/2006, discussed with Ms. Taunya A. Phillips, Associate Director
of Economic Development, concerning the Memorandum of Understanding related
to my lab space in the ASTeCC building (ASTeCC 141). The contract for
that space is extended to December 31, 2007. At that time, if our research
funding decreases significantly during the term of this contract, we
may have to surrender this space to other investigators.
Time-sheets are distributed to the two labs. The purpose of using the
time-sheet is to let students know that I care about their performance.
I do not need the time-sheet to know if they are in the lab, the
sheet is to let the STUDENTS know when they are in the lab and are
doing what.
6/13/2006, asked UK to withdraw an NSF supplement request, and made three RA appointments for Fall 2006.
6/12/2006, sent current and pending support for an NIH proposal with medical school, bad news with respect to NSF s BPC supplement request, checked f remaining fund amount and signed pay sheets for two students.
5/26/2006, declined a few review requests and proposal review requests. There is not much time for me these days.
5/19//2006, the NSF proposal with Dr. Lu on computational electromagnetic was finally submitted. Mr. Zhenmin Lin and I want to Agriculture Department to meet with Dr. Guiling Tang to discuss issues related to computational biology.
5/18/2006, it took me 3 nights at office to finish an NSF proposal. It must be a good one, for how many people are working at night these days?
5/17/2006, an offer has been extended to an undergraduate research assistant. Dr. Chi Shen is coming back for some Summer research work, with the support of an EPSCoR grant. A proposal to ADRC has been submitted. Great progress has been made today for a joint proposal with Dr. Lu in EE.
5/15/2006, nine of us attended the 12th Annual Kentucky EPSCoR Conference and we presented four posters.
5/10/2006, Ning Kang defended his dissertation. We had a group picture, a rare occasion that we could have everyone in the lab to get together.
5/2/2006, it seems that I need a lot money for the next few months.
I just borrowed $10,000 cash from Chase Bank, applied for two new
credit cards, and changed my retirement contribution to $0.0.
Prepared exam for CS321, for Wednesday at 1:00PM.
5/1/2006, done final exam for CS623.
4/29/2006, I just found that I have to give a final exam on Monday. I need to prepare the exam problems. Also spent time to grade CS321 homework.
4/28/2006, I attended a training session on UK's information management
system, in order to be able to view my grant account information.
Last day for teaching, finally relieved.
4/27/2006, my promotion has finally been approved by the school. My feeling
is mixed. A professor gives people an image of someone with gray hair, gray
beard, walking with a stick, wearing a pair of confocal glasses, and speaking
in a lower voice. To achieve that kind of academic maturity, I need
to work hard and practice for the next 20 years.
I still feel young and refuse to accept my destiny. Maybe some day, I will
be a student again, to learn something that I really want to learn, to
do something that I really want to do.
4/27/2006, I finally have an idea about how much money I have left in each of my grants. The University changed its management system and left all of us in dark since last October. I am going to attend a training class tomorrow to learn the new management system.
4/26/2006, submitted the second semi-annual report on the KSEF project on
Condition Number Query System. First draft of the ADRC proposal was sent to
Dr. Gold for comments.
Oops, I submitted the wrong report, need to work hard for the next two days
for an annual report on the KSEF project.
4/25/2006, gave the cards to the secretaries and finished the first draft of the ADRC proposal.
4/24/2006, it is difficult to work hard in an environment in which nobody else is working hard.
4/21/2006, Wensheng Shen passed his Ph.D. qualifying exam.
4/13/2006, met with Dr. Sen-ching Samson Cheung to discuss privacy-preserving data mining, possible collaborations, this morning. Afternoon was spent on repairing drain lines.
4/12/2006, I can't believe that I missed an assignment from the Department. This is the first time in my career that I did not finish an assignment on time, as I did not realize that I am supposed to do it. Anyway, it has been done and hope it is not too late. I am supposed to be a person finished everything well ahead of the deadlines.
4/11/2006, a bad day today. One proposal was declined. One proposal (PI, Dr. Yang) was returned without review due to some technical procedure. Several things are broken at home. At least one thousand dollars of damage is expected.
4/10/2006, 2 hours of faculty meeting discussed department matters such as statistics, survey, TA, etc.
4/5/2006, Wensheng Shen won the 2006 Thaddeus B. Curtz Memorial Scholarship
Award. Congratulations to Wensheng. This is the fourth consecutive year that
students from our lab won this award. Maybe the last year in this sequence.
Also, a paper with Jie Wang on SVD based privacy preserving data mining
is finished and submitted to a journal special issue.
4/3/2006, my trip to DC is canceled. Boring.
3/31/2006, I went to Eastern Kentucky University with 5 students to attend the 20th Annual Symposium in the Mathematical, Statistical and Computer Sciences. Beibei Li and Cheng Qi gave two presentations. Beibei Li won the First Prize in graduate student presentations. Congratulations.
3/30/2006, I think I am feeling better today, not because the Wal-Mart cashier thought that I am younger than 18, but because the flu virus seems to have run their course. Started grading homeworks, preparing two exams for Monday, and working on one new proposal.
3/28/2006, Dianwei Han had a new baby, congratulations. IGRT proposal was submitted.
3/25/2006, I have been very sick since Friday, Jeonghwa Lee taught CS623 for me on Friday. I went through the pre-proposal for the last time on Friday night.
3/22/2006, finished reading first draft of an IGRT proposal. Faculty meeting discussed Ph.D. student progress. All 2nd year students will receive a warning letter from the Department.
3/22/2006, I will have a mountain of proposals to work on. Hoa Ji has been asked to work with Dr. Tang to develop a web page for bioinformatics related research work.
3/9/2006, Wensheng Shen is one of the 10 students on campus to receive the 2006-207 Presidential Fellowship.
3/1/2006, last Saturday's Engineering-Day was an opportunity for us to show our work to out-siders. It was organized better than last year. Thanks are due to Beibei Li, Hao Ji, and Ning Cao.
2/27/2006, when we ask for help, we should ask those people we trust. Many times, those promised do not deliver.
2/23/2006, a printer, a refrigerator, and a microwave are installed in the new lab. It is fully functional with two spare computers.
2/23/2006, I have been hesitating on pursuing my book proposal. It seems to be a commitment too big to make.
2/16/2006, after becoming a "senior" faculty member, I now understand why some of my senior friends do not write as many proposals as I did. There are just too many community services. I used to review papers for journals once a week. I now receive review requests approximately once every day. I am suddenly being viewed as an "expert" on many things that I did not even realize before. This is going to kill me before I become really "senior".
February 14, 2006, final version of the paper is submitted to the Workshop on Mining Scientific and Engineering Datasets.
February 14, 2006, an NSF Supplemental Funding Request is submitted with a lucky bless.
February 13, 1006, it is OK to let a few deadlines pass. I cannot catch them all.
February 13, 2006, finally paid my dues, feeling unhappy.
February 10, 2006, Wensheng Shen passed the theory breath exam, and Qi Zhuang passed the theory breath exam. Congratulations to both.
February 8, 2006, I gave a CS Department colloquium entitled "Understanding the Function and Connectivity of Human Brain". The results seem good, and we need to prepare something to demonstrate on the Engineering Day.
February 6, 2006, congratulations to the four students (Ning Cao, Hao, Ji, Jie Wang, and Yin Wang) who took the Breadth Examination in Numerical Analysis/Scientific Computing. All passed!!
February 6, 2006, a paper, co-authored with Shuting Xu, was accepted by the Ninth International Workshop on Mining Scientific and Engineering Datasets.
January 31, 2006, the UK e-mail system is down. If you are expecting any e-mails from my jzhang@uky.edu account, they are delayed. My office machine just got its hard-disk replaced. It is OK at this time.
January 30, 2006, I finally submitted the NSF annual report for my CAREER grant.
January 27, 2006, the Director of Graduate Studies announced the statistics of graduate student publication and conference presentations in 2005, our lab has 10 of the 24 journal papers, 4 of the 47 refereed conference papers, and 9 of the 14 conference presentations. We still lead the other labs, but many of the papers were published by students who have since left the lab. The future prospect of our lab is rather bleak.
January 26, 2006, finally I am on top of the mountain. Looking back to what I have covered, it is worth the climbing.
January 24, 2006, Wensheng has a paper accepted for poster presentation at ACMSE 2006: 44th ACM Southeast Conference, Melbourne, Florida, March 10-12, 2006. This is a good place for Spring Break and looking for jobs.
January 9, 2006, a paper, co-authored with Eun-Joo Lee, was submitted to the Annual Copper Mountain Conference on Iterative Methods, for Student Paper Competition.
January 9, 2006, a paper, co-authored with Shuting Xu, was submitted to the Ninth International Workshop on Mining Scientific and Engineering Datasets.
January 6, 2006, a stressful new semester started with an unprecedented number of people in the lab hunting for jobs.
January 5, 2006, we traded two small-space lab offices for a larger one. The new office is actually larger than what we originally expected and will accommodate at least 6 people. This space expansion may accommodate a personnel expansion. But who wants to do that?
January 5, 2006, an NSF proposal on computational neuroinformatics was submitted without lucky blessing.
January 1, 2006, Jeonghwa has moved back to Lexington to take up a postdoctoral scholar position in the HiPSCCS Lab, to pick up her work on computational electromagnetics.
Concluding the year 2005: started with a great dream, ended up with a greater disappointment.
On December 15, 2005, Dr. Zhongyang Xiong finished his one year postdoctoral visit and left for China. We wish him good luck in his future work.
On December 13, Shuting had a new baby boy. Everything seems to be fast with her.
On October 4, 2005, Ms. Eun-Joo Lee passed her Ph.D. Qualifying Examination. Congratulations.
September 20, 2005, we have mixed results for this semester's breadth exams. Most (Ning Cao, Dianwei Han, Hao Ji, and Yin Wang) passed, some failed.
On September 19, 2005, we received an award of $193,615 from NSF to develop mathematical and computational algorithms for visualization of human brain neural pathways. This project will be in collaboration with Drs. Yunmei Chen and Yijun Liu at the University of Florida.
On August 23, 2005, the new semester starts with a team of 11 Ph.D. students, 2 undergraduate research assistants, and 1 visiting scholar in the two labs.
On July 22, 2005, Ms. Shuting Xu successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation. She has been offered a position of Assistant Professor of Information Science at Virginia State University, VA.
On July 14, 2005, we received a supplemental award of $12,000 from NSF to support Undergraduate Research Experience in Computer Science, in connection with my NSF CAREER award. This supplement will be used to hire two undergraduate research assistants in the HiPSCCS Lab.
Mr. Wensheng Shen won a competitive Young Researcher Fellowship, which carries a personalized Fellowship Certificate and covers all expenses for him to attend and present a paper entitled "Performance of ILUT Preconditioners in Modeling Bioheat and Mass Transfer in Skin Thermal Injury", co-authored by Professor Jun Zhang, and Chemical and Material Engineering Professor Fuqian Yang, at the Third MIT Conference on Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics, in Boston, MA, in June 2005.
On May 4, 2005, the Laboratory for Computational Medical Imaging & Data Analysis (the CMIDA Lab) is formally established. Its research focus will be on developing computational techniques for medical imaging analysis and visualization, and data mining for various applications, and computational informatics with applications to sciences, engineering, medicine, and industry.
On April 29, 2005, Mr. Wensheng Shen was nominated for a 2005-2006 Kentucky Opportunity Fellowship, which carries full tuition fees, health insurance, and $15,000 for 12 months.
On April 13, 2005, we received a grant in the amount of $64,612 from Kentucky Science and Technology Corporation (KSTC) for a proposal entitled "Support Vector Machine Approach to Matrix Condition Number Prediction ". The project will start on May 1, 2005 and run for two years.
On April 11, 2005, Mr. Ning Kang was awarded the 2005 Thaddeus B. Curtz Memorial Scholarship Award in Computer Science. This scholarship award has been made possible by Mrs. Rebecca Curtz, and in behalf of the children of Thaddeus B. Curtz, former Professor and Chair of the Department of Computer Science. This is the fourth consecutive year that our student received this award.
On February 16, 2005, Mr. Ning Kang won the Graduate School's highly competitive and prestigious Dissertation Year Fellowship for the year 2005-2006. She will receive a stipend of $16,000, and full payment of tuition and student health insurance. This is the second time that our student won this fellowship. This year, only 11 fellowships were awarded at UK, and only one in the College of Engineering.
On January, 2005, Mr. Ning Kang won a $1,000 Commonwealth Research Award from the UK Graduate School. He will use this award to attend the 2005 International Society for Optical Engineering - Medical Imaging Conferences, February 12-17, 2005, San Diego, CA.
On December 22, 2004, Mr. Ning Kang was awarded $400 Student Travel Grant to support him attending the International Society for Optical Engineering - Medical Imaging Conferences, February 12-17, 2005, San Diego, CA.
On December 20, 2004, Mr. Wensheng Shen received a Young Researcher Fellowship from the Third MIT Conference on Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics, Cambridge, MA, which will provide full travel support for him to present a paper, entitled "Performance of ILUT Preconditioners in Modeling Bioheat and Mass Transfer in Skin Thermal Injury", at the Third MIT Conference on Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics, June 14-17, 2005.
On August 14, 2004, we received a small grant in the amount of $29,294 from Kentucky's New Economy Safety and Security Initiative (NESSI) Consortium for a project entitled "Building a Preliminary Prototype Terrorist Analysis System with Privacy Protection". This project will last for one year, from August 16, 2004 to August 15, 2005.
On July 27th, 2004, Ms. Chi Shen defended her Ph.D. thesis. She will be an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Kentucky State University, starting August 16, 2004.
On July 26th, 2004, Ms. Jeonghwa Lee defended her Ph.D. thesis. She will hold a position as Mathematician/Software Engineer at RAPT Industries, based in Pittsburgh, PA, starting September 1, 2004.
On July 7th, 2004, Ms. Jing Gao defended her M.S. thesis.
On April 1, 2004, Ms. Shuting Xu was awarded the 2004 Thaddeus B. Curtz Memorial Scholarship Award in Computer Science. This scholarship award has been made possible by Mrs. Rebecca Curtz, and in behalf of the children of Thaddeus B. Curtz, former Professor and Chair of the Department of Computer Science.
On March 23, 2004, Ms. Shuting Xu received a $1,000 Commonwealth Research Award from the UK Graduate School. She will use this award next month to attend the 2004 SIAM Conference on data Mining in Orlando, Florida.
On February 2, 2004, Ms. Chi Shen gave birth to a baby girl. Both mom and baby are doing well. Congratulations to both girls.
On November 12, 2003, we received an internal grant $20,000 from the Office of Executive Vice President for a project entitled "Computational Techniques for Nerve Fiber Tracking with Application to Aging Disease Studies", which runs from January 1, 2004 to December 31, 2004. Dr. Peter A. Hardy of the Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy Center is the Co-PI of this project.
On June 2, 2003, Ms. Shuting Xu received an SIAM Student Travel ($500) to support her attending the SIAM Conference on Applied Linear Algebra (with free registration), July 15 - 19, 2003, in Williamsburg, VA.
On March 19, 2003, Ms. Chi Shen was awarded the 2003 Thaddeus B. Curtz Memorial Scholarship Award ($600) in Computer Science. This scholarship award has been made possible by Mrs. Rebecca Curtz, and in behalf of the children of Thaddeus B. Curtz, former Professor and Chair of the Department of Computer Science.
On March 18, 2003, we received a small grant from NSF ($62,027) to conduct an exploratory research on a software environment for high performance scientific computing applications.
On February 26, 2003, Ms. Chi Shen won the Graduate School's highly competitive and prestigious Dissertation Year Fellowship for the year 2003-2004. She will receive a stipend of $16,000, and full payment of tuition and student health insurance.
On January 21, 2003, Ms. Jeonghwa Lee, Ms. Chi Shen, and Mr. Ning Kang, just won the IMACS Student Paper Competition Awards. They will receive free lodging, free registration, and $500 for travel expenses to support them to present their papers at the Sixth IMACS International Symposium on Iterative Methods in Scientific Computing, March 27 - 30, 2003, Denver, CO, USA.
On December 17, 2002, we received a small grant ($14,705) from the Kentucky Science & Technology Foundation to study bioheat transfer in biological bodies.
On July 1st, 2002, I stepped down as the acting Director of Graduate Studies of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Kentucky.
In May 2002, Ms. Li Wang left the University of Kentucky for the University of Utah. We wish her well in her future endeavor.
On April 11th, 2002, Dr. Samir Karaa joined the HiPSCCS Lab as a postdoctoral associate to work on modeling laminar diffusion flames.
On March 12, 2003, Mr. Kai Wang was awarded the 2002 Thaddeus B. Curtz Memorial Scholarship Award ($600) in Computer Science. This scholarship award has been made possible by Mrs. Rebecca Curtz, and in behalf of the children of Thaddeus B. Curtz, former Professor and Chair of the Department of Computer Science.
On January 1st, 2002, I took the responsibility of Acting Director of Graduate Studies of the Computer Science Department.
On November 26, we received a small internal grant ($6,000) from the University of Kentucky Research Committee on a proposed project "Memory Efficient Algorithms for Large Scale Document Retrieval" , which will run from January 1, 2002 to December 31, 2002.
In October, 2001, the HiPSCCS Lab and the Research Organization for Information Science & Technology, Japan, launched a joint project to develop Scalable Parallel Iterative Solvers for Realistic Ill-Conditioned Problems in computational earth science.
On June 26, 2001, I was invited to serve as Associate Editor of the Korean Journal of Computational & Applied Mathematics, with a three year term from July 2001 to June 2004.
On April 9, 2001, we received an NSF Research Opportunity Award worth $27,657 to support Professor Jennifer J. Zhao to visit the Laboratory for High Performance Scientific Computing and Computer Simulation.
On February 27, 2001, I received a prestigious National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Award for a research project "CAREER: Develop Robust Scalable Linear System Solvers with Scientific, Engineering and Industrial Applications". This is a five year effort for $325,000, starting February 15, 2001.