Dr.Rui Zhang | computation mechanics Award |Young Scientist Award
Dr.RuiZhang, Aalto University,Finland
Professional and Academic Positions :
- 1983-Present: Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Iowa (NSF grants, Jorgensen, PI)
- 1982-84: Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Pennsylvania (on leave from Aarhus first year, and from Iowa second year; NSF grant, R.V. Kadison, PI)
- 1980-82: Associate Professor, Mathematics Institute, Aarhus University, Denmark, on leave from Stanford the first year (Danish Research Council grants)
- 1977-80: Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University (NSF grant, Jorgensen, PI)
- 1973-77: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Pennsylvania, support from the Danish Natural Science Research Council; partial support from the NSF, Grant MCS 77-02831, 1977, under R.V. Kadison, PI
Fellowships and Memberships:
- Elected Fellow of the AMS
- Memberships in Amer Math Soc, the New York Academy of Science, the Danish Academy of Science
Research Focus:
- Stochastic analysis, approximations and expansions, wavelets, harmonic analysis, machine learning
- Areas of Mathematics utilized in physics and engineering, including signal and image processing, time-frequency analysis, wavelet representations, and algorithms, and bit-quantization
Synergistic Activities:
- Directed research of several VIGRE graduate students
- Editor of several top journals in applied mathematics
- Mentorship of undergraduate research students and postdocs
Selected Talks:
- Main speaker in the NSF-funded Spring Mini Courses – LSU Math Department 2018
- Featured speaker in the CBMS 2018 at Iowa State University
Publications:
- Operator theory and analysis of infinite networks—theory and applications” (book)
- “Continuum versus discrete networks, graph Laplacians, and reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces.” – J. Math. Anal. Appl.
- “Substitution-dynamics and invariant measures for infinite alphabet-path space.” – Adv. in Appl. Math.
- “Markov chains and generalized wavelet multiresolutions.” – J. Anal.
- “Infinite weighted graphs with bounded resistance metric.” – Math. Scand.
- “10 lectures CBMS; Harmonic analysis: Smooth and non-smooth.” – CBMS Regional Conference Series in Mathematics
- “Discrete reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces: sampling and distribution of Dirac-masses.” – J. Mach. Learn. Res.
Rui Zhang | computation mechanics Award |Young Scientist Award