Yongjie Jessica Zhang
{{Short description|American mechanical engineer}}
{{COI|date=May 2022}}
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| field = Mechanical Engineering
Biomedical engineering
| work_institution = Carnegie Mellon University
| alma_mater = Tsinghua University
The University of Texas at Austin
| academic_advisors = Thomas J.R. Hughes (postdoc advisor)
Chandrajit Bajaj (PhD advisor)
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| known_for = Computational geometry, Isogeometric analysis, Image processing
| awards = David P. Casasent Outstanding Research Award (2020)
Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (2012)
NSF CAREER (2012)
ONR Young Investigator Award (2010)
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| website = {{URL|https://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/jessicaz/}}
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Yongjie Jessica Zhang is an American mechanical engineer. She is the George Tallman Ladd and Florence Barrett Ladd Professor of mechanical engineering and, by courtesy, of biomedical engineering at Carnegie Mellon University.{{r|profile}} She is the Editor-in-Chief of Engineering with Computers.{{Cite web |title=Engineering with Computers |url=https://www.springer.com/journal/366 |access-date=2022-05-17 |website=Springer |language=en}}
Contributions
Zhang's research involves geometric modeling, mesh generation, image processing, finite element method and isogeometric analysis.{{r|profile}}
She has applied her research for biomedicine and in particular for analysing blood vessels and neurons,{{r|neuron}}
as well as to ship design{{r|pres}} and the design of fiber-reinforced composite building materials.{{r|4d}}
Education
Zhang is originally from Henan, China,{{r|pres}} and earned a bachelor's degree in automotive engineering and a master's degree in engineering mechanics at Tsinghua University. She then moved to the University of Texas at Austin, where she earned a second master's degree in aerospace engineering and engineering mechanics, and a Ph.D. from the University of Texas Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences (now Oden Institute){{r|profile}} under the supervision of Chandrajit Bajaj.{{r|gyim}}
After staying on at the University of Texas for postdoctoral studies with Bajaj and Thomas J.R. Hughes,{{r|gyim}} she joined the mechanical engineering department at Carnegie Mellon in 2007.{{r|profile}}
Recognition
Zhang is the recipient of Simons Visiting Professorship from Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach of Germany{{Cite web |title=Simons Visiting Professors |url=https://www.mfo.de/scientific-program/meetings/simons-visiting-professors |access-date=2022-05-18 |website=MFO |language=en}} (2019), US Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers{{r|pres}} (2012), NSF CAREER Award (2012) and Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award (2010){{r|profile}}. The US Association for Computational Mechanics (USACM) awarded Zhang their Gallagher Young Investigator Medal (2013), "for pioneering research in high-fidelity geometric modeling and mesh generation with broad interdisciplinary finite element applications in computational biomedicine, material sciences and engineering".{{r|gyim}} At CMU, she received David P. Casasent Outstanding Research Award (2020),{{Cite web |title=Faculty award winners |url=https://engineering.cmu.edu/faculty-staff/awards/faculty-awards/winners.html |access-date=2022-05-18 |website=engineering.cmu.edu |language=en}} George Tallman Ladd and Florence Barrett Ladd Professorship (2019), Clarence H. Adamson Career Faculty Fellow in Mechanical Engineering (2014), Donald L. & Rhonda Struminger Faculty Fellow (2011), and George Tallman Ladd Research Award (2010).{{r|profile}} She is a Fellow of Solid Modeling Association{{Cite web |title=Solid Modeling Association |url=http://solidmodeling.org/awards/sma-fellows/sma-fellows-2021/ |access-date=2022-05-18 |website=solidmodeling.org}} (SMA, 2021), American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering{{Cite web |title=Fellow Directory - AIMBE |url=https://aimbe.org/college-of-fellows/directory/ |access-date=2022-05-18 |language=en}} (AIMBE, 2020), American Society of Mechanical Engineers{{Cite web |title=Fellows |url=https://www.asme.org/About-ASME/Honors-Awards/Joint-Society-Awards |access-date=2022-05-18 |website=www.asme.org |language=en}} (ASME, 2019), USACM{{Cite web |title=Award Recipients |url=https://www.usacm.org/award-recipients |access-date=2022-05-18 |website=www.usacm.org}} (2019), and Executive Leadership in Academic Technology, Engineering and Science (ELATES) at Drexel{{Cite web |date=2022-04-07 |title=ELATES at Drexel |url=https://drexel.edu/provost/priorities/initiatives/elates/ |access-date=2022-05-18 |website=Office of the Provost |language=en}} (2017-2018). She was elected to the 2023 Class of SIAM Fellows.{{Cite web |title=SIAM Announces Class of 2023 Fellows |url=https://sinews.siam.org/Details-Page/siam-announces-class-of-2023-fellows |access-date=2023-04-08 |website=SIAM News |language=en-US}} She was honored as the 2025 AWM-SIAM Sonia Kovalevsky Lecturer.{{Cite web |title=2025 Kovalevsky Lecture |url=https://awm-math.org/awards/kovalevsky-lectures/kovalevsky-lecture-2025/ |access-date=2025-04-04 |website=Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) |language=en-US}}
Zhang served on the Executive Council of USACM and the General Council of International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM).{{r|profile}} In USACM, she chaired the Technical Thrust Area of Isogeometric Analysis{{r|profile}} and is the founding chair of the Female Researchers Group.{{Cite web |title=USACM Female Researchers Group |url=https://frgusacm.org/ |access-date=2022-05-18 |website=USACM Female Researchers Group |language=en}} She chaired the Executive Committee of SMA where she initialized the Advisory Board and launched two new awards to recognize outstanding junior and mid-career researchers: Young Investigator Award and SMA Fellow.{{r|profile}} In addition to the Editor-in-Chief of Engineering with Computers, she also serves on the editorial board or is an associate editor of several journals such as Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering,{{Cite web |title=Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering {{!}} Journal |website= ScienceDirect.com |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/computer-methods-in-applied-mechanics-and-engineering |access-date=2022-05-18 |language=en-us}} Computer-Aided Design{{Cite web |title=Computer-Aided Design {{!}} Journal |website= ScienceDirect.com |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/computer-aided-design |access-date=2022-05-18 |language=en-us}} and Computer Aided Geometric Design.{{Cite web |title=Computer Aided Geometric Design - Journal - Elsevier |url=https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journals.elsevier.com/computer-aided-geometric-design |access-date=2022-05-18 |website=www.journals.elsevier.com}} She also serves as the program director for the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Activity Group on Geometric Design.{{Cite web |title=SIAM Activity Groups Election Results |url=https://sinews.siam.org/Details-Page/siam-activity-groups-election-results-63 |access-date=2023-03-29 |website=SIAM News |language=en-US}}
Selected publications
=Book=
- {{citation|title=Geometric Modeling and Mesh Generation from Scanned Images|publisher=CRC Press|year=2016|first=Yongjie Jessica|last=Zhang}}{{r|gmmg}}
=Research papers=
- {{citation
| last1 = Bazilevs | first1 = Y.
| last2 = Calo | first2 = V. M.
| last3 = Hughes | first3 = T. J. R.
| last4 = Zhang | first4 = Y.
| date = August 2008
| doi = 10.1007/s00466-008-0315-x
| issue = 1
| journal = Computational Mechanics
| pages = 3–37
| title = Isogeometric fluid-structure interaction: theory, algorithms, and computations
| volume = 43| bibcode = 2008CompM..43....3B
| s2cid = 122907287
}}
- {{citation
| last1 = Liao | first1 = Tao
| last2 = Li | first2 = Xinge
| last3 = Xu | first3 = Guoliang
| last4 = Zhang | first4 = Yongjie Jessica
| date = January 2016
| doi = 10.1016/j.cad.2015.07.009
| journal = Computer-Aided Design
| pages = 56–66
| title = Secondary Laplace operator and generalized Giaquinta–Hildebrandt operator with applications on surface segmentation and smoothing
| volume = 70}}. Best paper at SPM 2015.{{r|spm}}
- {{citation
| last1 = Hu | first1 = Kangkang
| last2 = Zhang | first2 = Yongjie Jessica
| last3 = Xu | first3 = Guoliang
| editor1-last = Barneva | editor1-first = R.
| editor2-last = Brimkov | editor2-first = V.
| editor3-last = Tavares | editor3-first = J.
| contribution = CVT-based 3D image segmentation for quality tetrahedral meshing
| doi = 10.1007/978-3-319-54609-4_2
| location = Cham
| pages = 27–42
| publisher = Springer
| series = Lecture Notes in Computer Science
| title = Computational Modeling of Objects Presented in Images. Fundamentals, Methods, and Applications: CompIMAGE 2016
| volume = 10149
| year = 2017| isbn = 978-3-319-54608-7
}}. Best paper at CompIMAGE 2016.{{r|compimage}}
References
External links
- [http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/jessicaz/ Home page]
- {{Google Scholar id|dzHYBKcAAAAJ}}
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Category:American mechanical engineers
Category:Chinese mechanical engineers
Category:Tsinghua University alumni
Category:Cockrell School of Engineering alumni
Category:Researchers in geometric algorithms
Category:Chinese emigrants to the United States
Category:American academics of Chinese descent
Category:Recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers