Academic Grandpa

Dr. James Yorke

Distinguished University Research Professor of Mathematics and Physics 

Institute for Physical Science and Technology

University of Maryland, 

http://yorke.umd.edu/

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

https://math.sciences.ncsu.edu/people/mtchu/

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

http://r.web.umkc.edu/

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

https://www.mcs.anl.gov/~hzhang/

Jiu Ding, Ph.D., 1990

Dissertation: Finite approximations of the Frobenius-Perron operator

Professor

Department of Mathematics

The University of Southern Mississippi

https://www.math.usm.edu/jding/

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

https://ualr.edu/mathematics/faculty-and-staff/wang/

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

https://uwf.edu/hmcse/departments/mathematics-and-statistics/our-faculty/faculty-profiles/dr-kuiyuan-li.html

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

http://homepages.neiu.edu/~zzeng/

Liang Jiao Huang, Ph.D., 1992

Dissertation: Parallel homotopy algorithm for large sparse symmetric eigenproblems

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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

https://www.math.tku.edu.tw/en/wu,meng-nien

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

http://www.math.nsysu.edu.tw/~leetsung/

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

https://www.math.purdue.edu/people/bio/zhang500

Tianran Chen, Ph.D., 2012

Dissertation: Projective path tracking for homotopy continuation method

Assistant Professor

Department of Mathematics and Computer Science

Auburn University at Montgomery 

http://www.tianranchen.org/

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

Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft

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M.S. Students

Yanan Ma, M.S., 1998