Yang-Ming Zhu's Curriculum Vitae

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

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

Education

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

Prizes, Awards, Honors, and Grants

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


Membership of Professional Societies

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

Judging Work of Others

1996 reviewing research proposal for Israel Science Foundation
1993 reviewing paper for IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Authorship and Inventions