Academic Grandpa
Dr. James Yorke
Distinguished University Research Professor of Mathematics and Physics
Institute for Physical Science and Technology
University of Maryland,
Ph.D. Students
Moody Chu, Ph.D., 1982
Dissertation: A nonlinear multistep method for solving stiff initial value problems
Professor
Department of Mathematics
North Carolina State University
Mahmoud Mohseni, Ph.D., 1984
Dissertation: Homotopy continuation method for nonlinear equations
Henry Gee, Ph.D., 1985
Dissertation: A model for the correction of the geometric distortion of multispectral scanner data
Noah Rhee, Ph.D., 1987
Dissertation: The homotopy method for the symmetric eigenvalue problems
Professor
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
University of Missouri-Kansas City
Hong Zhang Sun, Ph.D., 1989
Dissertation: On the Galerkin method with vector basis functions
Research Professor
Dept. of Computer Science
Illinois Institute of Technology
Jiu Ding, Ph.D., 1990
Dissertation: Finite approximations of the Frobenius-Perron operator
Professor
Department of Mathematics
The University of Southern Mississippi
Xiaoshen Wang, Ph.D., 1990
Dissertation: Homotopy methods for solving decient polynomial systems
Professor
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Kuiyuan Li, Ph.D., 1991
Dissertation: Homotopy methods and algorithms for real symmetric eigenproblems
Distinguished University Professor
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
University of West Florida
Zhonggang Zeng, Ph.D., 1991
Dissertation: Homotopy-determinant method for matrix eigenvalue problems and its parallelization
Bernard J. Brommel Distinguished Research Professor
Department of Mathematics
Northeastern Illinois University
Liang Jiao Huang, Ph.D., 1992
Dissertation: Parallel homotopy algorithm for large sparse symmetric eigenproblems
Ming Jin, Ph.D., 1995
Dissertation: Quasi-Laguerre iteration and its application in solving symmetric tridiagonal eigenvalue problems
Xiulin Zou, Ph.D., 1995
Dissertation: Quasi-Laguerre's method and its parallel implementation in solving symmetric tridiagonal eigenvalue problems
Xiaozhuo Yang, Ph.D., 1996
Dissertation: A scalable algorithm for non-symmetric eigenvalue problems
Yingjie Zhang, Ph.D., 1996
Dissertation: Hausdor dimension of invariant sets for expanding and hyperbolic systems
Qingchuan Yao, Ph.D., 1998
Dissertation: Convergence of several iterative methods
Hwee Hoon Chung, Ph.D., 1998
Dissertation: Polyhedral homotopy and its applications to polynomial system solving
Tangan Gao, Ph.D., 1999
Dissertation: Finding all isolated roots of polynomial systems in Cn via stable mixed volume
Professor, Department Chair
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
California State University Long Beach
Tianjun Wang, Ph.D., 1999
Dissertation: Determining the Jordan normal form of a matrix
Xing Li, Ph.D., 2000
Dissertation: Solving polynomial systems in C^n by polyhedral homotopies
Mengnien Wu, Ph.D., 2000
Dissertation: Balancing lifting values to improve numerical stability of polyhedral homotopy methods
Associate Professor
Department of Mathematics
Tamkang University
Tsung-Lin Lee, Ph.D., 2007
Dissertation: A rank-revealing method for low rank matrices with updating, downdating, and applications
Associate Professor
Department of Applied Mathematics
National Sun Yat-sen University
Chih-Hsiung Tsai, Ph.D., 2008
Dissertation: Algorithms for solving polynomial systems by homotopy continuation method, and its parallelization
Ying Zhang, Ph.D., 2008
Dissertation: Total degree and mixed volume
Lecturer
Department of Mathematics
Purdue University
Tianran Chen, Ph.D., 2012
Dissertation: Projective path tracking for homotopy continuation method
Assistant Professor
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Liangmin Zhou, Ph.D., 2015
Dissertation: Computing tensor eigenpairs using homotopy methods
Instructor - Assistant Professor
Department of Mathematics
Bellevue College
Liping Chen, Ph.D., 2016
Dissertation: A linear homotopy method for computing generalized tensor eigenpairs
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