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Jessica Zhang is the George Tallman Ladd Florence Barrett Ladd Professor and Chair of the Graduate Education Committee in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. She holds a B.Eng. in Automotive Engineering, an M.Eng. in Engineering Mechanics from Tsinghua University, and a Ph.D. in Computational Engineering Sciences from the University of Texas at Austin. Her research focuses on computational geometry, isogeometric analysis, finite element method, data-driven modeling, image processing, and mesh generation, with applications in computational biomedicine and materials science engineering. With over 240 publications, Zhang has authored a book on geometric modeling and mesh generation. She has received numerous awards, including the ASME Van C. Mow Medal and the AWM-SIAM Sonia Kovalevsky Lecture Award, and has held prestigious positions such as Simons Visiting Professor at the Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach in Germany. Zhang is a Fellow of multiple professional societies, including ASME, SIAM, and IACM. She actively contributes to editorial processes, serving as Editor-in-Chief for Engineering Computers.
Carnegie Mellon University • Pittsburgh, PA
Chair of the Graduate Education Committee, Courtesy Appointment in Biomedical Engineering.
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