Xiangmin (Jim) Jiao

Associate Professor
Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, NY 11794-3600
Office: Room 1-115 Math Tower
Tel: (631) 632-4408
Fax: (631) 380-8004
Email:

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). 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 Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics and is affiliated with the Computer Science Department and the Institute for Advanced Computational Science (formerly the New York Center of Computational Science).

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 multiphysics coupling, for applications involving heterogeneous physical systems, such as simulations in computational fluid dynamics, biomedical engineering, climate modeling, and geometric modeling. Visit his NumGeom Group page for more information.

Teaching

Current Teachings (Spring 2013)
AMS 527: Numerical Analysis II
AMS 261: Applied Calculus III (Multivariable Calculus)
Journal Club on Numerical Methods and Algorithms
Past Teachings
AMS 501:  Differential Equations and BVPs I (Ordinary Differential Equations)	Fall 10-11
AMS 526: Numerical Analysis I (Numerical Linear Algebra)	Fall 07-12
AMS 527: Numerical Analysis II	Spring 09-12
AMS 261: Applied Calculus III (Multivariable Calculus)	Spring 09-12 & Fall 09,12
AMS 691.3: Topics in Computational Mathematics	Spring 08
CS 8803-MS: Introduction to Modeling and Simulation (GaTech)	Spring 07
CS 3240: Languages and Computation (GaTech)	Summer & Fall 06
CS 3510: Design and Analysis of Algorithms (GaTech)	Spring 06

Awards

• Outstanding Teacher Award, Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Stony Brook University, Fall 2010 and 2011.
• David J. Kuck Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Award, Computer Science, UIUC, 2001.

Recent Publications

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

• D. Wang, X. Jiao, R. Conley, J. Glimm, On the Curvature Effect of Thin Membranes, Journal of Computational Physics, accepted 2012.
• B. Clark, N. Ray, and X. Jiao, Surface Mesh Optimization, Adaption, and Untangling with High-Order Accuracy, In Proceedings of 18th International Meshing Roundtable, San Jose, CA, October 2012.
• X. Jiao and D. Wang, Reconstructing High-Order Surfaces for Meshing, Engineering with Computers, 2011. DOI: 10.1007/s00366-011-0244-8.
• D. Wang, B. L. Clark and X. Jiao. An Analysis and Comparison of Parameterization-Based Computation of Differential Quantities for Discrete Surfaces, Computer Aided Geometric Design, Vol 26,(5) pp. 510-527, 2009.
• V. Dyedov, D. R. Einstein, X. Jiao, A. P. Kuprat, J. P. Carson and F. del Pin, Variational Generation of Prismatic Boundary-Layer Meshes for Biomedical Computing, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering. Vol 79(8), pp. 907--945, 2009.
• 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.

Last updated: 01/15/2013.