Prof. Zhang Jian Zhong

Bsc from Shanghai Normal University

PhD in Operations Research from the University of Texas at Austin, USA

Professor Zhang Jian Zhong, Jason, received his Bachelor degree in 1962 from Shanghai Normal University, and PhD degree in Operations Research in 1984 from the University of Texas at Austin, USA. He worked in Shanghai Normal University until 1988 as Lecturer, Associate Professor, Professor, and Head of the Mathematics Department. He was Visiting Professor in California State University in 1988, and Distinguished Visiting Professor in Dept. of Operations Research, George Washington University in 1989. In 1990 he joined City University of Hong Kong where he was Professor and Head (1996-2002) of the Mathematics Department. He was Visiting Professor in Department of System Engineering and Engineering Management, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, in 2006-07, and joined UIC in 2007 August .

Professor Zhang works on Operations Research and Optimization, especially on linear, nonlinear, and combinatorial optimization problems; network flow and pipe network problems; complementarity problem, variational inequality problem, and bi-level programming problem. Professor Zhang published more than 150 research papers, mostly in well known international academic (SCI) journals. In 2006, Professor Zhang and his partners won a second class Natural Science Award by the Ministry of Education of China. He now serves in editorial boards of Optimization Methods and Software, Pacific Journal of Optimization, Operations Research Transaction, and Acta Mathematicae Applicatae Sinica (Springer). Professor Zhang was a standing committee member of the China Operations Research Society until 2010, and Vice-Chairman of the Chinese Mathematical Programming Society between 1998 and 2006.

Research Interests

Selected Publications (from a total of 156 research papers)

1. Zhang J., Kim N., and Lasdon L., An Improved Successive Linear Programming Algorithm, Management Science, 31(1985), 1012-1031.
2. Zhang J. and Brockett P., Quadratic Constrained Infromation Theoretical Analysis, SIAM J. Applied Mathematics, 47(1987), 871-886.
3. Zhang J. and Zhu D., A Bilevel Programming Method for Pipe Network Optimization, SIAM J. Optimization, 6(1996), 838-857.
4. Zhang J. and Xu C., A Class of Indefinite Dogleg Path Methods for Unconstrained Minimization, SIAM J. Optimization, 9(1999), 646-667.
5. Zhang J. and Xiu N., Global S-type Error Bound for the Extended Linear Complementarity Problem and Applications, Mathematical Programming, 88(2000), 391-410.
6. Zhang J., Chen L. and Deng N., A Family of Scaled Factorized Broyden-like Methods for Nonlinear Least Squares Problems, SIAM J. Optimization, 10(2000), 1163-1179.
7. Zhang J. and Xiu N., New Projection-type Methods for Monotone LCP with Finite Termination, Numerische Mathematik, 92(2002), 179-195.
   
8. Burkard R., Pleschiutschnig C. and Zhang J., The Inverse 1-Median Problem on a Cycle, Discrete Optimization, 5(2008), 242-253. (this paper won Top Cited Article 2007-2011 award of the journal)
9. Zhang J. and Zhang L., An Augmented Lagrangian Method for a Class of In- verse Quadratic Programming Problems, Applied Mathematics and Optimization, 57(2010), 57-83.
10. Zhang J., Jian J., and Tang C., Inverse Problems and Solution Methods for a Class of Nonlinear Complementarity Problems, Computational Optimization and Applications, 49(2011), 271-297.

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