Dr. Kang Zhang is Professor 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; Ph.D. from
University of Brighton, UK, in December 1990;
and Executive MBA from the University of Texas at Dallas
in May 2011.
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,
aesthetic computing and information visualization,
software engineering, visual data mining.
He has been invited to deliver keynotes at various computer science and management conferences, and served as an expert witness for several law firms.
Dr. Zhang is on the Editorial Boards of Journal of Visual Languages and Computing, International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, and International Journal of Advanced Intelligence.
In his spare time, Kang likes to swim, play badminton, travel (see his travel page), and play go, chess, and bridge. Oil painting (won 3rd Prize in Shanghai in 1984. His recent works), paper art, logo design, Chinese calligraphy (won 1st Prize in Sichuan Province in 1981. The style Kang learnt is Liu Gongquan) (his own works in Regular Script, Clerical Script1, and Clerical Script2), and photography (see Kang's Photo Gallery, and a photo at Sillicon Valley Art Museum) are his real hobbies.
CS4361 - Computer Graphics [Syllabus, Textbook (publisher's page), Textbook (contents and sample exercise demos), A simple IFS - a tree, Download the Algorithm Demonstration software (executable, source)]
CS3360: Computer Graphics for Artists and Designers (Syllasbus)
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