Dr. Kang Zhang is Professor, Associate Department Head, and Director of
Visual Computing Lab
in the Department of
Computer Science, Erik Jonsson
School of Engineering and Computer Science,
an affiliated faculty member of the Geographic Information Systems
(GIS) program and Computer Engineering program, at the
University of Texas at Dallas.
He is also an Adjunct Professor of
Soochow University and University of Electronic
Science and Technology of China. Dr. Zhang received his B.Eng. in Computer Engineering from the
University of Electronic
Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China, in February 1982; and Ph.D. from
University of Brighton, UK, in December 1990.
Dr. Zhang was a CAD Software Engineer
at the East-China Research Institute of Computer Technology,
Shanghai in early 80s, and then held academic positions
in the UK (Jan. 1986 - Aug. 1991) and Australia (Sep. 1991 - Dec. 1999), before moving
to the USA.
His current research interests are in the areas of
visual languages,
information visualization,
software engineering, visual data mining.
He is a Senior Member of IEEE.
Dr. Zhang is the Book Review Editor for the Journal of Visual Languages and Computing, and Editorial Board member of the International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering.
In his spare time, Kang likes to swim, play badminton, travel, and play go, and bridge. Painting (his recent work in oil painting), paper art, logo design, Chinese calligraphy (the style Kang learnt is Liu Gongquan) (his old works in Regular Script and Clerical Script), and photography (see Kang's Photo Gallery, and a photo at Sillicon Valley Art Museum) are his real hobbies.
