About me

My name is Hongchao Zhang, now a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) at University of Minnesota and IBM TJ Watson Research Center . I got my Ph.D. in the Department of Mathematics at University of Florida , with Professor W. Hager in 2006 and my M.Sc. in Academy of Mathematics and System Science (AMSS), Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2001, supervised by professor Y.Yuan.

My Education

B.S. Comp. Math, Department of Mathematics, Shandong University, July 1998.
M.Sc. Comp. Math, Computing Center, CAS, July 2001.
Ph.D. Applied Math, Department of Mathematics, Univ. of Florida, July 2006
Post-Doc. IBM TJ Watson Research Center , Sep. 2006 ~ Aug. 2007

Industrial Post-Doc. IMA, Univ. of Minnesota, since Sep. 2006 ~ Aug. 2008

Research Interests

Nonlinear Programming and its Applications
Mixed Integer Nonlinear Programming
Sparse Matrix Computing, Graph Partitioning
Inverse Problems in Medical Imaging and Petrophysics

Derivative Free Optimization

My C.V.

My Papers and Report

Editorship

Computational Optimization and Applications (COAP)

Awards

SIAM Travel Award, SIAM Annual Meeting, 2004

Keene Dissertation Fellowship , Univ. of Florida, Spring 2006

SIAM best student paper prize, 2006

Teaching

MAC2312 Fall 2005,

Contact Information

address: Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications, Univ. of Minnesota,

email: hozhang@ima.umn.edu .or. hzhang@math.ufl.edu
tel: 612-625-3658 (office).