Yang-Ming Zhu's Resume

Yang-Ming Zhu Phone: (330) 673-5732 (home)
Dept of Math & Computer Science Fax: (330) 672-7824
Kent State University Email: yazhu@mcs.kent.edu
Kent, Ohio 44242 URL: http://www.mcs.kent.edu/~yazhu

Work Experience

9/98-present Scientist, Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio 44195
Expertise:Medical information processing; biostatistics; hazard function
1/98-8/98 Research assistant, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 44242, USA
Expertise: computer graphics (OpenGL, X-Window, Motif); scientific visualization; liquid crystal computation
1/95-12/97 Postdoc Fellow, Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 44242, USA
Expertise: liquid crystal displays, materials, and drive schemes; polymer/liquid crystals systems; phase separations
5/94-1/95 Lecturer and Associate Professor of Bioelectronics in Department of Biomedical Engineering and in National Laboratory of Molecular and Biomolecular Electronics at Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China
Expertise: digital signal (image) processing; scanning probe microscopy; LB films; liquid crystals
Course taught: Digital Signal Processing
2/94-6/94 Instructed undergraduate thesis on LB films and liquid crystals at Southeast University
2/91-7/91 Instructed undergraduate thesis on computer tomography at Shanghai Jiaotong University

Grants

1/95-12/97: Mechanisms for Liquid Crystal Anchoring Transitions on LB Films, Natural Science Fundation of China

1/93-12/94: Crown Ether Liquid Crystal LB Films, Southeast University Fundation

Education

1/97-present M.S., Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 44242, USA
Specialty: Computer Science
9/91-5/94 Ph. D, National Laboratory of Molecular and Biomolecular Electronics, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China
Specialty: Bioelectronics
9/89-7/91 M.S., Department of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai 200030, China
Specialty: Signal (Image) Processing
9/85-7/89 B.S., Department of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiaotong University
Specialty: Biomedical Engineering (Medical Imaging)
9/87-1/88 Basic medical science training at Shanghai Medical University, Shanghai 200032, China
4/85-8/85 Intensive pre-college training on Math, Physics, Programming Language, and English for talented high school students at Shanghai Jiaotong University

Professional Activities

1997-present member of Society of Information Display
1995-1997 member of American Physical Society
1994-1997 member of International Liquid Crystal Society
1992-1994 student member of IEEE
1996 reviewing research proposal for ISRAEL Fundation
1993 reviewing paper for IEEE Trans. Signal Processing

Awards

1996 2nd prize for Science and Technology Advancement, the State Educational Commission, "The automatic LB fabrication system with a flowing subphase compression", Z.H. Lu, F. Qian, N. Gu, Y.M. Zhu, Q.Y. Hong, and Y. Wei

1996 3rd prize for Science and Technology Advancement, the State Educational Commission, "Scanning probe microscopic studies on thin organic films", X.M. Yang, Z.H. Lu, Y.M. Zhu, N. Gu, Z.D. Xiao, and Y. Wei

1994 2nd prize for Science and Technology Advancement, the State Educational Commission, "Anchoring transitions of liquid crystal on LB films", Y.M. Zhu, Z.H. Lu, and Y. Wei

1994 5th top researcher in China whose publications of 1994 were collected by Science Citation Index of USA, the State Science Commission

1994 Excellent Ph. D dissertation award, Southeast University

1994 Chen ShuBiao first prize, Southeast University

1993 Hu MengHua and Wu ShuZhen first prize, Southeast University

1991 Dongfeng first prize, Shanghai Jiaotong University

1987 3rd prize of national physics competition of nonphysical college students

1984 1st prize of national mathematics competition of senior high school students

Patents and Publications

Patents

  1. D.K. Yang, Y.M. Zhu and X.Y. Huang, Dynamic drive methods and apparatus for bistable liquid crystal displays (filed with US Patent Office, May 1997)
  2. D.K. Yang and Y.M. Zhu, Cumulative two-phase drive scheme for bistable cholesteric displays (filed with US Patent Office, May 1998)

Publications

Thesis
  1. M.S. thesis: A Scientific Visualization Environment for Distributed Computing, Kent State University, Dec. 1998.
  2. Ph. D dissertation: Liqiud Crystal Alignment on Langmuir-Blodgett Films: Fundamentals and Applications, Southeast University, May 1994.
  3. M.S. thesis: Adaptive Filtering and Spectral Analysis, Shanghai Jiaotong University, July 1991. (in Chinese)
  4. B.S. thesis: Minimum Cross-entropy Algorithm for Image Reconstrunction from Limited Projection Data, Shanghai Jiaotong University, July 1989. (in Chinese)
Invited book chapters
  1. D.K. Yang, X.Y. Huang, and Y.M. Zhu, Bistable cholesteric reflective displays: Materials and drive schemes, in Annu. Rev. Mater. Sci., 27, 117 (1997).
  2. Y.M. Zhu and T.G. Zhuang, Image reconstruction from limited data using the periodicity of projections, in Biomedical Electronics, Y. Wei (ed.), vol. 1, pp.30-37 (Nanjing: Southeast University Press, 1991).
Papers
  1. Y.M. Zhu and P.A. Farrell, Vector grouping algorithms for tensor field visualization (in preparation).
  2. Y.M. Zhu and D.K. Yang, Computer simulation of patterned phase separation, submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett. Sept. 1998.
  3. Y.M. Zhu and D.K. Yang, Obsevation of pattern evolution during homeotropic focal conic transition in cholesteric liquid crystals, submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett. Aug. 1998.
  4. Y.M. Zhu and D.K. Yang, Cumulative two-phase drive schemes for cholesteric liquid crystal displays, SID'98 Digest, 798, 1998.
  5. Y.M. Zhu and D.K. Yang, High speed dynamic drive scheme for bistable reflective cholesteric displays, SID'97 Digest, 97, 1997.
  6. L.C. Chien, C.M. Hudson, D. Davis, B. Taheri, R. Klouda, and Y.M. Zhu, New polyimide alignment film for LCDs, SID'97 Digest, 319, 1997.
  7. Y.M. Zhu, Monte Carlo simulation of polymerization induced phase separation, Phys. Rev. E 54, 1645 (1996).
  8. H.M. Wu, Y.M. Zhu, Q. Luo, X.M. Yang. Z.H. Lu, and Y. Wei, Preparation and characterization of anisotropic chain structures in polyimide films, J. Vac. Sci. Tech. A 14, 1321 (1996).
  9. H.M. Wu, J.H. Tang, Q. Luo, Z.M. Sun, Y.M. Zhu, Z.H. Lu, and Y. Wei, Liquid crystal alignment of rubbed polyimide films: A microscopic investigation, Appl. Phys. B62, 613 (1996).
  10. H.M. Wu, Y.M. Zhu, and X.M. Yang, Investigations of the mechanism of liquid crystal alignment on rubbed polyimide films, Chinese Science Bulletin 41, 611 (1996).
  11. Y.M. Zhu, H. Chen, L. Wang, Z.H. Lu, Y. Wei, and W. Yan, Investigation of alignment mechanisms for liquid crystals on phthalocyanine-derived Langmuir- Blodgett films by scanning tunneling microscopy, Mol. Crtst. Liq. Cryst. 258, 203 (1995).
  12. Y.M. Zhu and Y. Wei, Conformation-change-independent anchoring of liquid crystals on polymer liquid crystal Langmuir-Blodgett films, Chin. Phys. Lett. 12, 408 (1995).
  13. Y.M. Zhu and Y. Wei, Local and global ordering in rodlike polymer monolayers at the air-water interface, J. Appl. Phys. 78, 6885 (1995).
  14. Y.M. Zhu, Z.H. Lu, and Y. Wei, Relation between anchoring of liquid crystals and conformation changes in aligning agents by Langmuir-Blodgett film technique investigation, Phys. Rev. E 51, 418 (1995).
  15. H.M. Wu, Y.M. Zhu, X.M. Yang, Q. Luo, Z.H. Lu, and Y. Wei, Liquid crystal alignment of helical polymer chains, Phys. Lett. A 205, 290 (1995).
  16. D.K. Yang, Y.M. Zhu, and C. Boulic, Effects of dichroic dye on polymer stabilized cholesteric texture light shutter, Asia Display, 51 (1995).
  17. Z.H. Lu, Y.M. Zhu, and Y. Wei, Apparatus for continuous fabrication of ultrathin and nano-scale ordered films, J. Instrumentation 16(1), 116 (1995). (in Chinese)
  18. Y.M. Zhu, Z.H. Lu, and Y. Wei, Liquid crystal alignment on polymide Langmuir-Blodgett films, Mol. Cryst. Liq, Cryst. 257, 53 (1994).
  19. Y.M. Zhu, Z.H. Lu, and Y. Wei, Scaling property of a polymer liquid crystal at the air-water interface, Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 257, 49 (1994).
  20. Y.M. Zhu, H. Chen, Y. Wei, and W. Yan, Liquid crystal alignment on phthalocyanine derived Langmuir-Blodgett films, Appl. Phys. B 49, 617 (1994).
  21. Y.M. Zhu and Y. Wei, Conformation change-derived anchoring transition of liquid crystals on crown ether Langmuir-Blodgett films, J. Chem. Phys. 101, 10023 (1994).
  22. Y.M. Zhu, W.J. Zhang, X.B. Jia, and Y. Wei, Liquid crystal alignment on polyamic acid Langmuid-Blodgett films, J. Southeast Univ., Suppl. 1 (1994).
  23. D. Xiao, X.M. Yang, Y.M. Zhu, Z.H. Lu, and Y. Wei, Investigation of anchroing transition of liquid crystals on crown ether monolayers by atomic force microscopy, Thin Solid Films 251, 40 (1994).
  24. Y.M. Zhu, L. Wang, Z.H. Lu, Y. Wei, X.X. Chen, and J.H. Tang, Atomic force microscopic study of rubbed polyimide films, Appl. Phys. Lett. 65, 49 (1994).
  25. Y.M. Zhu, Z.H. Lu, and Y. Wei, Surface pressure induced conformation changes of a polymer liquid crystal at the air-water interface, Phys. Rev. E 49, 5316 (1994).
  26. Z.H. Lu, F. Qian, Y.M. Zhu, X.M. Yang, and Y. Wei, An automatic system for fabrication of LB films by flowing subphase compression, Thin Soild Films 243, 371 (1994).
  27. Y.M. Zhu, X.B. Jia, D. Xiao, Z.H. Lu, Y. Wei, Z.H. Wu, Z.L. Hu, and M.G. Xie, Characterization of the monolayer transition of a bouble-armed crown ether liquid crystal by liquid crystal alignment, Phys. Lett. A 188, 287 (1994).
  28. Y.M. Zhu, Z.H. Lu, X.B. Jia, Q.H. Wei, D. Xiao, Y. Wei, Z.H. Wu, Z.L. Hu, and M.G. Xie, Anchoring transition of liquid crystals on crown ether monolayers, Phys. Rev. Lett. 72, 2573 (1994).
  29. Y.M. Zhu, Z.H. Lu, F. Qian, X.M. Yang, and Y. Wei, Anisotropy in Langmuir monolayers supported by flowing water, Phys. Rev. E 49, 521 (1994).
  30. Y.M. Zhu, Z.H. Lu, and Y. Wei, Investigation of alignment mechanism of polyimide Langmuir-Blodgett films on liquid crystal by Monte Carlo simulation, Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 238, 125 (1994).
  31. Y.M. Zhu, Z.Z. Wang, and Y. Wei, A convex projection approach to spectral analysis, IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, 42, 1284 (1994).
  32. Z. Hu, Q. Jiang, J. Qin, W. Pan, M. Xie, Y.M. Zhu, J. Fnag, and Y. Wei, Study on the preparations and properties of liquid crystalline crown ether LB films, Chem. Research & Application, 6(4), 13 (1994). (in Chinese)
  33. Y.M. Zhu, A spectrum space approach to spectral analysis, Acta Electronica Sinica, 22(7), 48 (1994). (in Chinese)
  34. Y.M. Zhu, Z.H. Lu, and Y. Wei, Scaling property of PMMA monolayers, J. Southeast Univ. 24(2), (1994). (in Chniese)
  35. Z. Hu, Q. Jiang, J. Qin, W. Pan, M. Xie, Y.M. Zhu, and Y. Wei, Research on the LB films of monoarmed crown ether liquid crystals, Chem. J. Chin. Univ. 15, 295 (1994). (in Chinese)
  36. Y.M. Zhu, T.G. Zhuang, and Y. Wei, Applying Weierstrass approximation theorem for trigonometeric polynomials to limited-view tomographic image reconstruction, Acta Electronica Sinica, 22(1), 26 (1994). (in Chinese)
  37. Y.M. Zhu, Z.H. Lu, F. Qian, X.M. Yang, and Y. Wei, Liquid crystal alignment on polyimide Langmuir-Blodgett films prepared on a newly designed Langmuir trough using a flowing subphase, Appl. Phys. Lett. 63, 3432 (1993).
  38. Y.M. Zhu, Z.H. Lu, and Y. Wei, The influence of deposition process on polymer conformation in Langmuir-Blodgett films, Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 32, L1462 (1993).
  39. Y.M. Zhu, Z.H. Lu, Q.H. Wei, X.M. Yang, Y. Wei, X.X. Chen, J.H. Tang, and W. Yan, Liquid crystal alignment on polymer Langmuir-Blodgett films: The side chain effects, Phys. Lett. A 183, 107 (1993).
  40. Y.M. Zhu, Z.H. Lu, X.M. Yang, Y. Wei, and F. Qian, Observation of elongated and aligned polymer chains in a two-dimensional system by atomic force microscopy, Phys. Lett. A 181, 183 (1993).
  41. Y.M. Zhu, Z.H. Lu, and Y. Wei, Self-avoiding walks on Sierpinski carpets, Phys. Lett. A, 177, 279 (1993).
  42. Y.M. Zhu, P. Zhu, Q.H. Wei, Z.H. Lu, Y. Wei, and Z.H. Luo, Liquid crystal alignment on polymer liquid crystal Langmuir-Blodgett films, Phys. Lett. A 176, 141 (1993).
  43. Y.M. Zhu, An extrapolation method to obtain a full projection from a limited one for limited view tomography problem, Medi. Biol. Engi. Comput. 31, 323 (1993).
  44. Y.M. Zhu, Geometrical approach to identifying ill-conditioned matrix with arbitrary size, Adv. Modelling & Analysis A 15(4), 45 (1993).
  45. Y.M. Zhu, A modified LMS algorithm with smooth converge, Adv. Modelling & Analysis A 16(2), 1(1993).
  46. Y.M. Zhu, An improved LMS algorithm: A compromise between convergence speed and static error, Adv. Modelling & Analysis A 17(2), 17 (1993).
  47. Y.M. Zhu, Comments on momentum LMS algorithm, Adv. Modelling & Analysis A 17(2), 19 (1993).
  48. Y.M. Zhu and Y. Wei, Comments on the methods to construct biological neural network in vitro, Development on Biochemistry & Biophysics, 20, 427 (1993). (in Chinese)
  49. Y.M. Zhu and Y. Wei, Theorems for signal restoration from undersampled samples, Signal Processing, 9, 94 (1993). (in Chinese)
  50. Y.M. Zhu, One result of entropy approach to spectral analysis, Signal Processing, 9, 36 (1993). (in Chinese)
  51. Y.M. Zhu and Y. Wei, Recent progress on artificial biological neural networks, Life Science 5, 14 (1993). (in Chinese)
  52. Y.M. Zhu, Generalized sampling theorem, IEEE Trans. Circuits & Systems Pt.2: Anolog & Digital Signal Processing, 39, 587 (1992).
  53. Y.M. Zhu, T.G. Zhuang, and L.G. Chen, Virtual symmetry reconstruction (VSR) algorithm for limited-view computered tomography, SPIE 1818, 1294 (1992).
  54. Y.M. Zhu, Y. Wei, and W.P. Qian, Recent development on artificial biological neural networks, CIE Spectrum, no.8, 20 (1992). (in Chinese)
  55. Y.M. Zhu, A kind nonband-limited signal restoration, J. Nanjing Inst. Post & Telecommunications, 12(3), 58 (1992). (in Chinese)
  56. Y.M. Zhu and T.G. Zhuang, Minimum distance algorithm for image reconstruction, J. Computer, 8, 606 (1992). (in Chinese)
  57. Y.M. Zhu and Z.Z. Wang, Minimum distance spectral analysis, J. Shanghai Jiaotong Univ. 26(4), 73 (1992). (in Chinese)
  58. Y.M. Zhu, Y. Wei, and Z.H. Lu, Applications of phase shifting on optical lithography, CIE Spectrum, no.4, 24 (1992). (in Chinese)
  59. Y.M. Zhu and Z.Z. Wang, Minimum reversed cross-entropy spectral analysis, Signal Processing, 8, 86 (1992). (in Chinese)
  60. Y.M. Zhu and Z.Z. Wang, A new criterion for ill-conditioned matrix, J. Shanghai Jiaotong Univ. 26(3), 110 (1992). (in Chinese)
  61. Y.M. Zhu, T.G. Zhuang, and X.L. Zhang, Minimum cross-entropy algorithm for image reconstruction from incomplete projection data, J. shanghai Jiaotong Univ. 26(3), 29 (1992). (in Chinese)
  62. Y.M. Zhu and T.G. Zhuang, Imaginary symmetry reconstruction algorithm for limited-view tomography, CT Theory and Application, 1(1), 13 (1992). (in Chinese)
  63. T.G. Zhuang, Y.M. Zhu, and X.L. Zhang, Minimum cross-entropy algorithm (MCEA) for image reconstruction from incomplete projection, SPIE 1606, 697 (1991).
  64. Y.M. Zhu and Z.Z. Wang, Spectral analysis using the method of convex projections, J. Nanjing Inst. Post & Telecommunications, 11(4), 63 (1991). (in Chinese)
  65. Y.M. Zhu and Z.Z. Wang, Miminum distance spectral analysis of multiple signals, ibid. 11(4), 55 (1991). (in Chinese)
  66. Y.M. Zhu and Z.Z. Wang, On an improved technique for adaptive filtering algorithm, ibid. 11(2), 28 (1991). (in Chinese)
  67. Y.M. Zhu and Z.Z. Wang, A new form for minimum cross-entropy spectral analysis of multiple signals, J. Shanghai Univ. Engineering Science, 5(1), 16 (1991). (in Chinese)
  68. Y.M. Zhu and Z.Z. Wang, A certain kind signal restoration from undersampled samples, J. Shanghai Univ. Science & Technology, 14(1), 23 (1991). (in Chinese)
  69. Y.M. Zhu and T.G. Zhuang, PPR: A prior projection reconstruction algorithm for images from incomplete projection data, Proc. 4th China-Japan International Symposium on Biomedical Rehabilitation Engineering, vol. 2, pp. 135-143, Shanghai, Mar. 1990.
  70. Y.M. Zhu and T.G. Zhuang, Multi-prior-weighted minimum cross-entropy algorithm for image reconstruction, J. Shanghai Univ. Sci. & Tech. 13(4), 61 (1990). (in Chinese)
  71. Y.M. Zhu, Notes on the property of 2-d curves, Math. Phys. Chem. for High School Students, no.8, 21 (1990). (in Chinese)
  72. Y.M. Zhu, Quantitative study on "Diversity results in stability", Guizhou City Planning, no.2, 7 (1987). (in Chinese)

Other Presentations

  1. Y.M. Zhu and D.K. Yang, Drive scheme for bistable reflective cholesteric displays, Proc. Ohio Symp. Adv. in Humanity Sci. & Tech., Akron, p.30, May 1997.
  2. Y.M. Zhu and D.K. Yang, Computer simulation of polymerization induced phase separation, presented at American Physical Society March Meeting, St. Louis, Mar. 1996.
  3. Y.M. Zhu and D.K. Yang, Pattern evolution of cholesteric liquid crystals in a polymer network enviroment, ALCOM Sym. Tech. Report, Kent State University, 1995.
  4. Y.M. Zhu and D.K. Yang, Anchoring of liquid crystals on Langmuir-Blodgett films, Gordon Research Conf. Liquid Crystals, Wolfeboro, NH, June 1995.
  5. Y.M. Zhu, Z.H. Lu, and Y. Wei, Liquid crystal alignment on polymer liquid crystal Langmuir-Blodgett films, Proc. Internatioal Conf. Liquid Crystal Polymer, Beijing, Sept. 1994.
  6. Y.M. Zhu, Z.H. Lu, and Y. Wei, Anchoring transition of liquid crystals on Langmuir-Blodgett films, China-Japan Bilateral Sym. LB films, Jinan, Oct. 1994.
  7. Y.M. Zhu and Y. Wei, Results on the sampling theorem, Proc. of 10th National Conf. on Circuit & Systems, pp.403-405, Hangzhou, May 1992. (in Chinese)
  8. Y.M. Zhu and Z.Z. Wang, Application of the projection onto convex sets method on spectral analysis, Proc. Nat'l Conf. Biomed. Eng. Biomed. Info. & Control, pp.3.61-3.67, Shanghai, Oct. 1991. (in Chinese)
  9. Y.M. Zhu and Z.Z. Wang, A novel algorithm for adaptive filtering, ibid pp.3.65-3.67, Shanghai, Oct. 1991. (in Chinese)
  10. Y.M. Zhu and T.G. Zhuang, Minimum reversed cross-entropy for image reconstruction, ibid pp.4.31-4.34, Oct. 1991. (in Chinese)
  11. Y.M. Zhu and T.G. Zhuang, Limited view angle image reconstruction based on virtual symmetry reconstruction algorithm, Proc. 5th Nat'l Conf. Theory and Applications of Computer Tomography, pp.1.35-1.35, Shanghai, June 1991. (in Chinese)
  12. Y.M. Zhu, T.G. Zhuang, and X.L. Zhang, Minimum cross-entropy algorithm for image reconstruction, Proc. Nat'l Conf. Biomed. Eng., Beijing, Dec. 1990. (in Chinese)
  13. Y.M. Zhu, Spectral estimation: An ill-posed problem, presented at Graduate Sym., Dept. of Precision Instrumentation, Shanghai Jiaotong Univ., pp. 15-16, Nov. 1990. (in Chinese)
  14. Y.M. Zhu and T.G. Zhuang, Image reconstruction with incomplete projection data using periodic property of projection data, Proc. 4th Nat'l Conf. Theory and Applications of Computer Tomography, pp.89-90, Beijing, June 1990.
  15. T.G. Zhuang and Y.M. Zhu, Properties of cross-entropy minimization for image reconstruction and methods to obtain moderate prior distributions, Proc. 4th Nat'l Conf. Theory and Applications of Computer Tomography, pp.91-96, Beijing, June 1990.