The CMIDA Lab and the HiPSCCS Lab Research Team

• computational medical imaging analysis;
• parallel and scientific computing;
• knowledge discovery and data mining;
• information retrieval;
• biomedical informatics and biosimulations;
• software systems;
• nanomodeling and nanosimulations;
• computational sciences and numerical simulation;
• multigrid and multilevel preconditioning techniques;
• high order compact finite difference schemes;
• numerical simulations of fluid flow problems.

• Mr. Ning Cao, (M.S., Tsinghua University, China), Ph.D. student (August 16, 2004 -)
  biomedical imaging;
• Mr. Dianwei Han, (M.S., Lamar University, USA), Ph.D. student (January 1, 2005 -)
  data mining and information retrieval;
• Mr. Xuwei Liang, (M.S., Wayne State University, 2006, USA), Ph.D. student (August 16, 2006 -)
  diffusion tensor imaging analysis;
• Mr. Zhenmin Lin, (M.S., China), Ph.D. student (August 16, 2005 -)
  computer science;
• Mr. Lian Liu, (M.S., Hunan University, 2006, USA), Ph.D. student (August 16, 2006 -)
  data mining;
  Carol Adelstein Outstanding Student Award, 2008.
  
• Ms. Jie Wang, (M.S., Beijing University of Technology, China), Ph.D. student (August 16, 2004 -)
  privacy preserving data mining, E-commerce.
  Thaddeus B. Curtz Memorial Scholarship Award, 2008.
  Kentucky Opportunity Fellowship, 2007-2008.
  University of Kentucky Commonwealth Research Award, 2007.
  
• Mr. Yin Wang, (B.E., University of Science and Technology of China, China), Ph.D. student (August 16, 2004 -)
  parallel computing, high performance scientific computing;
• Mr. Changjiang Zhang, (M.S., Donghua University, China), Ph.D. student (August 16, 2006 -)
  computer science;
• Mr. Qi Zhuang, (B.E., Jilin University, 2005, China), Ph.D. student (August 16, 2005 -)
  computer science;

• Dr. Eun-Joo Lee, Ph.D. (January 1, 2001 - August 14, 2008)
  Dissertation Title: Accurate and Robust Preconditioning Techniques for Solving General Sparse Linear Systems.
  Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, 2007.
  First Job: Associate Professor, East Stroudsburg University, Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania.
  
• Dr. Wensheng Shen, Ph.D. (August 16, 2003 - June 30, 2007)
  Dissertation Title: Computer Simulation and Modeling of Physical and Biological Processes Using Partial Differential Equations.
  Presidential Graduate Fellowship, 2006-2007.
  Thaddeus B. Curtz Memorial Scholarship Award, 2006.
  Kentucky Opportunity Fellowship, 2005-2006.
  Young Researcher Fellowship Award, Third MIT Conference on Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics, 2005.
  First Job: Assistant Professor, State University of New York at Brockport, Brockport, New York.
  
• Dr. Ning Kang, Ph.D. (January 1, 2002 - August 15, 2006)
  Dissertation Title: Approximating Anatomical Brain Connectivity with Diffusion Tensor MRI via Anisotropic Diffusion Simulations.
  Thaddeus B. Curtz Memorial Scholarship Award, 2005.
  Dissertation Year Fellowship, 2005-2006.
  University of Kentucky Commonwealth Research Award, 2005.
  First Job: Research Scientist, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA.
  
• Dr. Shuting Xu, Ph.D. (January 1, 2002 - August 15, 2005)
  Dissertation Title: Study and Design of An Intelligent Preconditioner Recommendation System.
  Thaddeus B. Curtz Memorial Scholarship Award, 2004.
  First Job: Assistant Professor, Virginia State University, Petersburg, VA.
  
• Dr. Chi Shen, Ph.D. (January 1, 2001 - August 15, 2004)
  Dissertation Title: Parallel Multilevel Block ILU Preconditioning Techniques for Solving General Sparse Linear Systems.
  Thaddeus B. Curtz Memorial Scholarship Award, 2003.
  Dissertation Year Fellowship, 2003-2004.
  First Job: Assistant Professor, Kentucky State University, Frankfort, Kentucky.
  
• Dr. Jeonghwa Lee, Ph.D. (August 16, 1999 - August 15, 2004)
  Dissertation Title: Preconditioned Iterative Methods for Solving Dense Linear Systems from Electromagnetic Scattering Applications.
  First Job: Mathematician/Software Engineer, RAPT Industries, Pittsburgh, PA.
  Current Position: Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Shippensburg University, Shippensburg, PA.
• Dr. Kai Wang, Ph.D. (January 1, 2000 - December 30, 2003)
  Dissertation Title: High Performance Preconditioning Techniques for Solving General Sparse Linear Systems.
  Thaddeus B. Curtz Memorial Scholarship Award, 2002.
  First Job: Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois.
  Current Possition: Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD.
  
• Dr. Jeonghwa Lee, (Ph.D., University of Kentucky), Postdoctoral scholar (January 1, 2006 - August 15, 2006)
  preconditioning techniques, computational ekectromagnetics;
• Dr. Zhongyang Xiong, (Ph.D., Chongqing University, 2004, China), Visiting Scholar (January 20, 2005 - December 15, 2005)
  data mining and information retrieval;
• Dr. Samir Karaa, (Ph.D., University Paul Sabatier, France, 1996), Postdoctoral Associate (April 1, 2002 - August 30, 2003);
  computer simulation, computational sciences;
• Dr. Sangbae C. Kim, (Ph.D., Purdue University, 1993), Visiting Scholar (December 20, 2001 - January 19, 2003)
  parallel scientific computing, computational sciences;
• Dr. Haiwei Sun, (Ph.D., Chinese University of Hongkong, 1996), Postdoctoral Associate (February 1, 2001 - July 31, 2002)
  nonstandard multigrid methods, high order discretization schemes;
• Dr. Lixin Ge, Postdoctoral fellow (March 1, 1999 - December 30, 2000)
  high order compact discretization schemes for convection diffusion problems with boundary layers, multigrid method, numerical simulation of flow problems;
• Ms. Jing Gao, M.S. (May 14, 2001 - August 15, 2004)
  Thesis Title: Experimental Studies on Several Computational Strategies in Text Document Retrieval.
  Here is her www.homerain.com, go girl.
• Ms. Jiantao Tang, M.S. (January 1, 2002 - May 22, 2003)
  Project Title: Application of Principle Direction Divisive Partitioning and Singular Value Decomposition in Information Retrieval.
• Ms. Tong Xiao, M.S. (January 1, 1999 - December 30, 2000)
  Project Title: Preconditioning Strategies for Linear Least Squares Problems.
• Mr. Jiqing Zhang, M.S. (Ph.D. in Mining Engineering) (January, 1999 - May 2000)
  Project Title: A Procedure for Computing Sparse Approximate Inverse.
  

Undergraduate Students Worked in My Labs

• Mr. William Berry, 2005;
• Mr. Jeffrey Wheeler, 2005-2006;
• Mr. Levon Ter-Isahakyan, 2006;
• Mr. David Blummer, 2006;
• Mr. Charles Andrew Callebs, 2006;

On August 15, 2008, at the reception for the new Ph.D. graduate of the HiPSCCS Lab.

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Dr. Eun-Joo Lee (left), Dr. Jun Zhang (right).

On May 16, 2007, at the reception for the new Ph.D. graduate of the HiPSCCS Lab.

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Dr. Wensheng Shen (left), Dr. Jun Zhang (right).

Picture of Ph.D. students and postdoc of the HiPSCCS Lab and the CMIDA Lab on May 10, 2006.

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Front row from left: Dr. Jeonghwa Lee, Professor Jun Zhang, Dr. Ning Kang, Mr. Ning Cao.

Back row from the left: Mr. Hao Ji, Ms. Jie Wang, Mr. Cheng Qin, Ms. Beibei Li, Dr. Eun-Joo Lee, Mr. Dianwei Han, Dr. Wensheng Shen, Mr. Yin Wang, Mr. Qi Zhuang, Mr. Zhenmin Lin.

On May 10, 2006, at the reception for the new Ph.D. graduate of the HiPSCCS Lab.

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Dr. Ning Kang (right), Dr. Jun Zhang (left).

On July 22, 2005, at the reception for the new Ph.D. graduate of the HiPSCCS Lab.

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Dr. Shuting Xu (left), Dr. Jun Zhang (right).

On July 28, 2004, at the reception for the new Ph.D. graduates of the HiPSCCS Lab.

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Dr. Joenghwa Lee (left), Dr. Jun Zhang (middle), and Dr. Chi Shen (right).

Picture of researchers, friends and visitors of the HiPSCCS Lab on Ma y 7, 2002.

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Front row from left: Professor Sang-Bae Kim (Hannam U, Korea), Mr. Kai Wang, Professor Jun Zhang, Professor Zhong-Zhi Bai (Chinese Academy of Science, Visiting), Professor Qiang Ye (Math, UK), Dr. Samir Karaa.

Back row from the left: Ms. Chi Shen, Ms. Jeonghwa Lee, Mr. David A. Turner, Mr. Ning Kang, Dr. Haiwei Sun, Ms. Jing Gao, Ms. Li Wang, Ms. Shuting Xu.

Picture of the female research assistants in the HiPSCCS Lab on May 7, 2002.

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From left to right: Ms. Jeonghwa Lee, Ms. Jing Gao, Ms. Li Wang, Ms. Chi Shen. Ms. Shuting Xu. (Ms. Jingtao Tang is not shown here).

Starting year 2002, I will not supervise M.S. projects or independent study with non-Ph.D. students in any areas. Only Ph.D. students will be accepted, regardless of financial situation.

Short Time Visitors

• Professor Jennifer J. Zhao, University of Michigan at Dearborn, MI. (05/05/03 - 05/16/03).
• Dr. Kengo Nakajima, RIST, Japan. (03/13/03 - 03/15/03).
• Professor Eric S. Carlson, University of Alabama - Tuscaloosa, AL. (11/30/02).
• Professor David E. Keyes, Old Dominion University, TX. (11/06/02).
• Professor Zhangxin Chen, Southern Methodist University, TX. (10/23/02).
• Professor Eric S. Carlson, University of Alabama - Tuscaloosa, AL. (07/18/02).
• Professor Jennifer J. Zhao, University of Michigan at Dearborn, MI. (07/15/02 - 07/26/02).
• Professor Man-Chung Yeung, University of Wyoming, WY. (05/27/02 - 06/10/02).
• Professor Zhong-Zhi Bai, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. (05/06/02 - 05/07/02).
• Professor Eric S. Carlson, University of Alabama - Tuscaloosa, AL. (04/21/02).
• Professor Eric S. Carlson, University of Alabama - Tuscaloosa, AL. (01/28/02 - 01/28/02).
• Professor Chi-Wang Shu, Brown University, RI. (09/17/01 - 09/17/01).
• Professor Jennifer J. Zhao, University of Michigan at Dearborn, MI. (08/05/01 - 08/19/01).
• Professor Qingping Quo, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China. (07/28/01 - 07/30/01).
• Professor Linda Petzold, University of California at Santa Barbara, CA. (04/17/01 - 04/19/01).
• Dr. Samir Karaa, Laboratiore MIP, UMR 5640, Universite Paul Sabatier, France. (11/14/00 - 12/13/00).
• Dr. Esmond G. Ng, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, CA (10/14/00 - 10/17/00).
• Professor Weizhong Dai, Louisiana Tech University, LA. (06/10/00 - 06/13/00).
• Professor Jennifer J. Zhao, University of Michigan at Dearborn, MI. (06/10/00 - 06/13/00).
• Dr. Jules Kouatchou, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, MD. (03/09/00 - 03/12/00).
• Professor Shiqing Zhang, Chongqing University, China. (08/23/99 - 09/19/99).
• Professor Murli M. Gupta, The George Washington University, DC. (08/10/99).
• Professor Jian-Guo Liu, University of Maryland, Maryland. (03/23/99 - 03/24/99).
• Professor Thomas L. Beck, University of Cincinnati, Ohio. (03/09/99).
• Dr. Edmond Chow, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, California. (10/27/98-10/29/98).

MY current and past research fundings are from:

• University of Kentucky College of Engineering;
• University of Kentucky Center for Computational Sciences;
• University of Kentucky Research Committee;
• Kentucky Science & Technology Foundation;
• National Science Foundation;
• Department of Energy Office of Science;
• Research Organization for Information Science & Technology, Japan.

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