Xiangmin (Jim) Jiao

Assistant Professor
Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, NY 11794-3600
Office: Room 1-115 Math Tower
Tel: 2-4408 (SBU internal) or (631) 651-1061 (External)
Fax: 2-8490 (SBU internal) or (206) 600-5426 (External)
Email: xjiao@sunysb.edu, xjiao@acm.org

Brief Bio

Dr. Jiao received his B.S. in 1995 from Peking University, China, his M.S. in 1997 from University of California Santa Barbara, and his Ph.D. in computer science in 2001 from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) under the supervision of Prof. Michael T. Heath. After working in interdisciplinary research for a few years as a Research Scientist at the Center for Simulation of Advanced Rockets (CSAR) at UIUC and then a Visiting Assistant Professor in College of Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology, he joined the faculty of Stony Brook University in Fall 2007. He is now an Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics and is affiliated with the Computer Science Department and New York Center of Computational Science. He is a member of ACM, AMS, and SIAM.

Research

Dr. Jiao's research interests are in high-performance geometric and numerical computing in science and engineering. His work focuses on developing efficient and robust algorithms and high-performance software implementations for dynamic surfaces, mesh optimization, applied computational and differential geometry, and multi-physics coupling, for applications involving heterogeneous physical systems, such as simulations of solid rocket motors, climate modeling, biomedical engineering, and computer animations. Visit his GeoCSE Laboratory website for more information.

Teaching

Spring 2006	CS3510: Design and Analysis of Algorithms (GaTech)
Summer 2006	CS3240: Languages and Computation (GaTech)
Fall 2006	CS3240: Languages and Computation (GaTech)
Spring 2007	CS8803-MS: Introduction to Modeling and Simulation (GaTech)
Fall 2007	AMS526: Numerical Analysis I (Numerical Linear Algebra) (SBU)
Spring 2008	AMS691.3: Topics in Computational Mathematics (SBU)
Fall 2008	AMS526: Numerical Analysis I (Numerical Linear Algebra) (SBU)

Recent Publications

This is a list of recent representative publications. Click here for a more complete list of publications.

• X. Jiao and H. Zha, Consistent computation of first- and second-order differential quantities for surface meshes, ACM Solid and Physical Modeling Symposium, June 2008.
• X. Jiao and N.R. Bayyana, Identification of C1 and C2 Discontinuities for Surface Meshes in CAD, Computer-Aided Design, Vol 40, pages 160-175, 2008.
• X. Jiao, N.R. Bayyana, and H. Zha, Optimizing Surface Triangulation via Near Isometry with Reference Meshes, in Proceedings of International Conference on Computational Science, Beijing, May 2007.
• X. Jiao, Face offsetting: a unified framework for explicit moving interfaces. Journal of Computational Physics, Vol 220(2), pages 612–625, 2007.
• X. Jiao, A. Colombi, X. Ni, and J. Hart, Anisotropic mesh adaptation for evolving triangulated surfaces. in Proceedings of 15th International Meshing Roundtable, Birmingham AL, September 2006.
• R. K. Jaiman, X. Jiao, P. H. Geubelle, and E. Loth. Conservative load transfer along curved fluid-solid interface with non-matching meshes. Journal of Computational Physics. Vol 218(1), pages 372-397, 2006.
• X. Jiao, G. Zheng, P.A. Alexander, M.T. Campbell, O.S. Lawlor, J. Norris, A. Haselbacher, M.T. Heath, A system integration framework for coupled multiphysics simulations, Engineering with Computers, Vol. 22(3-4), pp. 293-309. December 2006.
• R. K. Jaiman, X. Jiao, P. H. Geubelle, and E. Loth. Assessment of conservative load transfer for fluid-solid interface with non-matching meshes. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering. Vol 64(15), pages 2014-2038, 2005.
• X. Jiao and M. T. Heath. Common-refinement-based data transfer between nonmatching meshes in multiphysics simulations. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering. Vol 61(14), pages 2402-2427. December 2004.
• X. Jiao and M. T. Heath. Overlaying surface meshes, part i: algorithms. International Journal on Computational Geometry and Applications. Vol 14(6), pages 379-402. December 2004.
• X. Jiao and M. T. Heath. Overlaying surface meshes, part ii: topology preservation and feature matching. International Journal on Computational Geometry and Applications. Vol 14(6), pages 403-419. December 2004.

Awards

• David J. Kuck Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Award, Department of Computer Science, UIUC, 2001
• Excellent Teaching Assistant Award, Department of Computer Science, UIUC, Fall 1997

Last updated: 08/29/2008.