| 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 |
| 1/98-present | Researcher, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Kent
State University, Kent, Ohio 44242 Expertise: liquid crystal computation; scientific visualization; |
| 1/95-12/97 | Research Associate, Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University, Kent,
Ohio 44242 Expertise: liquid crystal displays, materials, and drive schemes; polymer/liquid crystals systems; phase separations |
| 5/94-1/95 | Lecturer and Associate Professor of Bioelectronics, Department of
Biomedical Engineering and National Laboratory of Molecular and Biomolecular
Electronics, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China Expertise: liquid crystals; LB films; signal processing; scanning probe microscopy; Course taught: Digital Signal Processing |
| 2/94-6/94 | Instructor, instructing undergraduate thesis on liquid crystals and LB films at Southeast University |
| 2/91-7/91 | Instructor, instructing undergraduate thesis on computer tomography at Shanghai Jiaotong University |
| 1/97-present | M.S., Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Kent
State University, Kent, Ohio 44242 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: Medical Signal Processing |
| 9/85-7/89 | B.S., Department of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai
Jiaotong University Specialty: 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 |
1/95-12/97: Mechanisms for Liquid Crystal Anchoring Transitions on LB Films, grant awarded by Natural Science Foundation of China
1/93-12/94: Crown Ether Liquid Crystal LB Films, grant awarded by Southeast University Foundation
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 5th top researcher in China whose publications of 1994 were collected by Science Citation Index of USA, the State Science Commission
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 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
| 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 Science Foundation |
| 1993 | reviewing paper for IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing |