Yu Zhuang, PhD, PhD Associate Professor Dept. of Computer Science Texas Tech University Lubbock, Texas 79409 Phone: (806) 742-3527 yu.zhuang@ttu.edu

Biographical Sketch

Dr. Yu Zhuang is an associate professor of Computer Science at Texas Tech University. He received his Ph.D. in Mathematics and Ph.D. Computer Science both in 2000 from Louisiana State University. He joined Texas Tech since 2001. Dr. Zhuang is a member of IEEE Computer Society and SIAM. For more information, see Curriculum Vitae

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Research Interests

• Scalable parallel/distributed computing
• Parallel domain decomposition algorithms for evolutionary PDEs
• Preconditioners for nonsymmetric matrices
• Multiscale spatially adaptive modeling
• Computational chemistry and computational neuroscience

Selected Publications

• U. Lourderaj, K. Song, T.L. Windus, Yu Zhuang, and W.L. Hase, Direct dynamics simulations using Hessian-based predictor-corrector integration algorithms, J. Chemical Physics, Vol. 126, Jan. 2007, 044105.
• Yu Zhuang, An alternating explicit implicit domain decomposition method for the parallel solution of parabolic equations, J. Computational & Applied Math., Vol. 206 (2007), 549-566.
• Yu Zhuang, A parallel and efficient algorithm for multi-compartment neuronal modelling, Neurocomputing, Vol. 69, June 2006, 1035-1038.
• Y. Zhuang and X.-H. Sun, A highly parallel algorithm for the numerical simulation of unsteady diffusion processes, Proc. 19th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2005), Denver, Colorado, April, 2005.
• Y. Zhuang and X.-H. Sun, Stabilized Explicit-implicit Domain Decomposition Methods for the Numerical Solution of Parabolic Equations, SIAM J. Sci. Comput., Vol. 24 (July 2002), No. 1, 335-358.
• Y. Zhuang and X.-H. Sun, Stable, Globally Non-iterative, Non-overlapping Domain Decomposition Parallel Solvers for Parabolic Problems, Proc. of the IEEE/ACM Super Computing Conference, Denver, Nov. 2001.
• Y. Zhuang and X.-H. Sun, High Order Fast Direct Solver for Singular Poisson Equations, Journal of Computational Physics 171 (2001), 79-94.
• S. Flory, F. Neubrander and Y. Zhuang, On the Regularization and Stabilization of Approximation Schemes for C(0)-semigroups, Partial Differential Equations and Spectral Theory, 119-132. PDE2000 Conference in Clausthal, Germany, July 2000. Birkhaeuser Verlag.
• P. Wolenski and Y. Zhuang, Proximal Analysis and the Minimal Time Function, SIAM J. Control Optim. 36 (1998), no. 3, 1048-1072.
• X.-H. Sun and Y. Zhuang, A highly accurate fast solver for Helmholtz equations, Proceeding of ACM International Conference on Supercomputing 1997 (ICS97), Vienna, Austria, July 1997.