Kang Zhang


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; 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 on the Editorial Board 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, 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.


Fall 09 Class: 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)]


Books I (co-)authored or (co-)edited