Yongjie (Jessica) Zhang
Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Address:
5000 Forbes Avenue
Scaife Hall 303
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
5000 Forbes Avenue
Scaife Hall 303
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Phone: 412-268-5332
Fax: 412-268-3348
Email: jessicaz@andrew.cmu.edu
Bio
Professor Zhang’s research focuses on Computational Geometry, Mesh Generation, Computer Graphics, Visualization, Biomedical and Biological Imaging, Finite Element Analysis, Isogeometric Analysis, Scientific Computing and their applications in Computational Medicine, Computational Biology, and Engineering. Researchers in Professor Zhang’s group develop new algorithms on biomodeling at molecular, cellular, tissue and organ scales, and explore applications in various application fields.Education
B.S. 1996, M.S. 1999, Tsinghua University, China
M.S. 2002, Ph.D. 2005, The University of Texas at Austin
Selected Publications
- Y. Zhang, Y. Bazilevs, S. Goswami, C. Bajaj, T. J.R. Hughes. Patient-Specific Vascular NURBS Modeling for Isogeometric Analysis of Blood Flow. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering (CMAME). 196(29-30):2943-2959, 2007.
- Y. Cheng, J. Suen, D. Zhang, S. Bond, Y. Zhang, Y. Song, N. Baker, C. Bajaj, M. J. Holst, J. A. McCammon. Finite Element Analysis of the Time-Dependent Smoluchowski Equation for Acetylcholinesterase Reaction Rate Calculations. Biophysical Journal. 92:3397-3406, 2007.
- J. T. Oden, K. R. Diller, C. Bajaj, J. C. Browne, J. Hazle, I. Babuska, J. Bass, L. Demkowicz, A. Elliott, Y. Feng, D. Fuentes, S. Prudhomme, M. N. Rylander, R. J. Stafford, Y. Zhang. Dynamic Data-Driven Finite Element Models for Laser Treatment of Cancer. Journal of Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations, 23(4):904-922, 2007.
- Y. Zhang, C. Bajaj, G. Xu. Surface Smoothing and Quality Improvement of Quadrilateral/Hexahedral Meshes with Geometric Flow. The special issue of the Journal Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering (CNME), accepted, 2007. (invited paper)
- Y. Zhang, G. Xu, C. Bajaj. Quality Meshing of Implicit Solvation Models of Biomolecular Structures. The special issue of Computer Aided Geometric Design (CAGD) on Applications of Geometric Modeling in the Life Sciences, 23(6):510-530, 2006.
- Y. Bazilevs, V. Calo, Y. Zhang, T. J.R. Hughes. Isogeometric Fluid-Structure Interaction Analysis with Applications to Arterial Blood Flow. Computational Mechanics, 38(4-5):310-322, 2006.
- M. N. Rylander, Y. Feng, Y. Zhang, J. Bass, R. J. Stafford, J. Hazle, K. R. Diller. Optimizing Heat Shock Protein Expression Induced by Prostate Cancer Laser Therapy Through Predictive Computational Models. Journal of Biomedical Optics, 11(4):41113-41128, 2006
- J. T. Oden, K. R. Diller, C. Bajaj, J. C. Browne, J. Hazle, I. Babuska, J. Bass, L. Demkowicz, Y. Feng, D. Fuentes, S. Prudhomme, M. N. Rylander, R. J. Stafford, Y. Zhang. Development of a Computational Paradigm for Laser Treatment of Cancer. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 3993: 530-537, 2006
- W. K. Liu, Y. Liu, D. Farrell, L. Zhang, X. Wang, Y. Fukui, N. Patankar, Y. Zhang, C. L. Bajaj, J. Lee, J. Hong, X. Chen, H. Hsu. Immersed Finite Element Method and Its Applications to Biological Systems. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering (CMAME), 195(13-16):1722-1749, 2006
- Y. Zhang, C. Bajaj. Adaptive and Quality Quadrilateral/Hexahedral Meshing from Volumetric Data. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering (CMAME), 195(9-12):942-960, 2006
- Y. Zhang, C. Bajaj, B-S. Sohn. 3D Finite Element Meshing from Imaging Data. The special issue of Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering (CMAME) on Unstructured Mesh Generation, 194(48-49):5083-5106, 2005.
- D. Zhang, J. Suen, Y. Zhang, Y. Song, Z. Radic, P. Taylor, M. J. Holst, C. Bajaj, N. A. Baker, J. A. McCammon. Tetrameric Mouse Acetylcholinesterase: Continuum Diffusion Rate Calculations by Solving the Steady-State Smoluchowski Equation Using Finite Element Methods. Biophysical Journal, 88(3):1659-1665, 2005.
- Y. Song, Y. Zhang, C. Bajaj, N. Baker. Continuum Diffusion Reaction Rate Calculations of Wild Type and Mutant Mouse Acetylcholinesterase: Adaptive Finite Element Analysis. Biophysical Journal 87(3):1558-1566, 2004.
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Y. Song, Y. Zhang, T. Shen, C. Bajaj, J. McCammon, N. Baker. Finite Element Solution of the Steady-state Smoluchowski Equation for Rate Constant Calculations. Biophysical Journal, 86(4):2017-2029, 2004.