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Jessica Zhang is the George Tallman Ladd Florence Barrett Ladd Professor and Chair of the Graduate Education Committee at Carnegie Mellon University's College of Engineering. She holds degrees in Automotive Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, and a Ph.D. in Computational Engineering Sciences. Her research interests focus on computational geometry, isogeometric analysis, finite element methods, data-driven modeling, image processing, and mesh generation, particularly in their applications within computational biomedicine and materials science. Zhang has published over 240 technical articles in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings, and she has authored a book on geometric modeling. She has received numerous prestigious awards throughout her career, including the ASME Van C. Mow Medal and the AWM-SIAM Sonia Kovalevsky Lecture Award. Zhang has also been recognized for her contributions to bioengineering and computational mechanics with various professorships and fellowships in leading engineering societies. She is active in academic leadership and has edited numerous publications, making significant strides in the fields of engineering and applied mathematics.
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