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Jessica Zhang is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. She received her B.Eng. in Automotive Engineering and M.Eng. in Engineering Mechanics from Tsinghua University, China. She then completed her M.Eng. in Aerospace Engineering and Ph.D. in Computational Engineering Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin. After her postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute for Computational Engineering Sciences (ICES), she joined Carnegie Mellon University in 2007 as an Assistant Professor, was promoted to Associate Professor in 2012, and became a full Professor in 2016. Her research includes image-based geometric modeling, mesh generation, and finite element analysis (FEA) with broad applications in engineering that integrates image processing, geometric modeling, and mechanics simulation to solve problems in computational biomedicine and material sciences. She aims to reduce computation time associated with geometric modeling and FEA in complex domains, such as the human body, through innovative techniques developed by her research group.
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