Curriculum Vitae - Mei Q. Chen
Address: MSC 111, 171 Moultrie Street, Charleston, SC 29409
E-mail: chenm@citadel.edu
Phone: (843) 953-7882 (office)
Fax: (843) 953-7391
Website: http://macs.citadel.edu/chenm/
· EDUCATION
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· EXPERIENCES
- 8/13 – present – Department Head
- 8/00 - present – Professor
- 8/94 - 8/00 - Associate Professor
- 8/89 - 8/94 - Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Computer
Science, The Citadel
Undergraduate
courses taught:
- Mathematical Modeling
(Math 104)
- Finite Mathematics
(Math 105)
- Applied Calculus (for
non-science students) (Math 106)
- Precalculus (College
Algebra and Trigonometry) (Math 119)
- Calculus I, II and III
(Math 131, 132, 231)
- Engineering
Mathematics I (Linear Algebra and Ordinary Differential Equations) (Math
234)
- Engineering
Mathematics II (Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations) (Math 335)
- Linear Algebra (Math
240)
- Numerical Methods I
and II (Math 343, 344)
- Mathematical Modeling
(Math 470)
- Math Senior Seminar
(Math 495)
- Research Project (Math
499)
- Christopher Hall,
“Linear Recurrence Relations in Music”, 2009 – Sigma
Xi Student Research Award at the Citadel Undergraduate Research
Conference (CURC)
- Tao-hsiang Chang, “Inverse Eigenvalue Problems
Arising in Population Models”, CURC, MAA-SE, 2009
- Joshua Zimmer,
“Properties of Special Structured 2x2 Matrices over Zp”, CURC,
MAA-SE, 2009
- Joshua Collins,
“Properties of Orthogonal 2x2 Matrices over a field”, CURC,
MAA-SE, 2011
- Kuo-Wei
Yao, “Singular Value Decomposition and Its Applications in Image
Processing”, 2012 - Sigma Xi Student Research Award at CURS,
MAA-SE
- Wei-Fang Liu, “Deblurring Image Using Singular Value Decomposition”,
2013, CURC, MAA-SE, SCAS, 2013
- Clarese
Neill, “Bit by Bit”, CURC, 2013
Graduate courses taught:
- Citadel:
- Linear Algebra (Math
530)
- Calculus from an
Advanced Standpoint (Math 553)
- Applications of
Discrete Mathematics (Math 545)
- College of Charleston:
- Scientific Computing
and Numerical Analysis (Math 545)
- Topics in Numerical
Linear Algebra and Optimization (Math 580)
- Utah State University:
- Numerical Nonlinear Optimization
and Applications in Signal Processing and Control (ECE 6930)
Awards:
- The faculty recipient of the Algernon
Sydney Sullivan Award, 2004
- The Krause Faculty Award for 2002
- The Citadel Development Foundation
Research Fellowship Award, 1999
- The C. A. Medbery Award For Dedication
To Teaching, 1999
- The Citadel Faculty Achievement Award,
1990 and 1992
- 1/2005 - 8/2005 - Visiting
Faculty, Department of
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Utah
State University (on sabbatical leave from The Citadel)
- 8/2004 - 12/2004 - Visiting
Faculty, Department of
Mathematics, University of Connecticut
(on sabbatical leave from The Citadel)
- 8/1996 - 6/1997 - Visiting
Faculty, Department
of Electrical Engineering, University
of Colorado at Denver (on sabbatical leave from The Citadel)
- 5/1990 - 8/1990 Visiting
Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois at
Champaign-Urbana
Conducted research on the parallel methods in optimization
- 6/1986-6/1989 Research
Assistant, The Center for Supercomputing Research and Development at University of Illinois
Investigated parallel algorithms in linear algebra and in optimization
- 8/1983-5/1986 Teaching
Assistant, Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois
Taught: Calculus I and II
- 6/1982-8/1982 Application
Programmer, Rocky Mountain National
Park
Responsible for designing, implementing and maintaining a complete
business administration software package
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· MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL AND HONOR
SOCIETIES
- Professional Societies
- Society for Industrial and Applied
Mathematics (SIAM)
- American Mathematical Society (AMS)
- Mathematical Association of America
(MAA)
- Association for Women in Mathematics
(AWM)
- International Linear Algebra Society
(ILAS)
- Honor Societies
- Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society
Treasurer, Charleston Chapter, 2003 - present
- The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi
President, Citadel Chapter 2006, 2007
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· PUBLICATIONS
- “Stability
of Shift-Varying 2-D State-Space Digital Filters,” Joint with Glen
W. Mabey and Tamal Bose, IEEE,
Transactions on Circuits and Systems I, Volume 59, No. 7, July 2012,
pp. 1431-1445.
- ``Inverse Eigenvalue
Problems Arising in Population Models,'' Joint with Tao-hsiang Chang, Conference
Proceeding of the 8th WSEAS Conference on Applied Computer and Applied
Computational Science, Hangzhou, China, May 20-22, 2009
- ``Basic Soules
Matrices and Applications,'' Joint with M. Neumann and N.
Shaked-Monderer, Linear Algebra and its Applications, Volume 429
(2008), pp. 951-971.
- "Stability of the 2-D
Givone-Roesser Model with Periodic Coefficients," Joint with T.
Bose and R. Thamvichai, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I,
Volume 54, No. 3, March 2007, pp. 566-578.
- ``Double Soules
Pairs and Matching Soules Bases,'' Joint with M. Neumann and N.
Shaked-Monderer, Linear Algebra and its Applications, Volume 421,
Issues 2-3, March 2007, pp. 315-327.
- ``On Single and Double Soules
Matrices,'' Joint with L. Han and M. Neumann, Linear Algebra and
its Applications, Vol.416, July 2006, pp. 88-110.
- ``Spectral Properties of a Near-Periodic
Row-Stochastic Leslie Matrix,'' Joint with X. Li, Linear Algebra
and its Applications, Vol. 409, Nov. 2005, pp. 166-186. 2005.
- ``Stability
of a shift-variant 2-d state-space digital filter,'' Joint with G.W.
Mabey and T. Bose In Proc. Int.
Symp. Cir. Sys., 2005.
- ``The Superiority of a New Type (2,2)-Step Iterative Method over the Related Chebyshev
Method,'' Joint with Xiezhang Li, Applied Mathematics and
Computation, 162 (2005), pp. 605-625.
- ``An
Estimation of the Spectral Radius of a Product of Block Structured
Matrices,'' Joint with Xiezhang Li, Linear Algebra and Its
Applications, Vol. 379, March, 2004, pp. 267-275.
- ``Appendix: Concepts of Linear
Algebra'', in the text book Signal and Image Processing by T.
Bose, John Wiley & Sons, 2002.
- ``A Direction Set Based
Algorithm for Adaptive Least Squares Problems in Signal Processing,''
M.-Q. Chen, The Kluwer Book Series on Applied and Computational
Control, Signals and Circuits : Recent Developments, 2001, pp.
213-236.
- ``A Direction Set Based
Algorithm for Adaptive Spectral Estimation,'' Proceedings of SPIE
Conference on Advanced Signal Processing Algorithms, Architectures, and
Implementations, Summer, 2000, pp. 173-184.
- ``A
Direction Set Based Algorithm for Adaptive Filtering'', Joint with
Tamal Bose and Guo Fang Xu, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing,
Vol. 47, No. 2, February 1999, pp. 535-540.
- ``A
Direction Set Based Algorithm for Least Squares Problems in Adaptive
Signal Processing'', Linear Algebra and Its Applications,
Vol. 284, No. 1-3, November 1998, pp. 73-94.
- ``Stability
of two-dimensional discrete systems with periodic coefficients,''
Joint with T. Bose, K.S. Joo, and G.F. Xu, IEEE Trans. on Circuits and
Systems, Part II: Analog and Digital Signal Processing, Vol. 45, No.
7, July 1998, pp. 839-847.
- ``A Fast Adaptive Algorithm
for Spectral Estimation'', Joint with Tamal Bose and Guo Fang Xu, Proceeding
of IEEE PACRIM'97, Vol.1, pp. 146-149.
- ``A Direction Set Based
Algorithm for Adaptive Filtering,'' Joint with Tamal Bose and Guo Fang Xu,
Proceeding of IEEE PACRIM'97, Vol.1, pp. 457-460.
- ``Near Optimal 2-Stage
Runge-Kutta Schemes For Solving A Class of Nonsymmetric Linear Systems,''
Joint with Chichia Chiu, Iterative Methods in Scientific Computation,
edited by Junping Wang, Myron Allen III, Benito M. Chen, and Tarek Mathew,
IMACS Series in Computational and Applied Mathematics, Vol. 4, 1997, pp.
27-32.
- ``A Direction Set Based
Algorithm for Solving A Class of Adaptive Least Squares Problems,'' Iterative
Methods in Scientific Computation, edited by Junping Wang, Myron
Allen III, Benito M. Chen, and Tarek Mathew, IMACS Series in Computational
and Applied Mathematics, Vol. 4, 1997, pp. 351-356.
- ``Stability of 2-D
periodically shift variant digital filters,'' Joint with T. Bose, K.S.
Joo, and G.F. Xu, Proceeding of ISCAS-97, September, 1996.
- ``Conjugate Gradient Method
in Adaptive Bilinear Filtering,'' joint with T. Bose, IEEE
Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 43, No. 6, 1995, pp.
1503-1508.
- ``BIBO Stability of the
Discrete Bilinear System,'' joint with T. Bose, Digital Signal
Processing, Vol. 5, 1995, pp. 160-166.
- ``Region-dependent Optimal
m-stage Runge-Kutta Schemes for Solving a Class of Nonsymmetric Linear
Systems,'' joint with C. Chiu, Linear Algebra and its Applications,
Vol. 212/213, Nov. 15 1994, pp. 523-546.
- ``Conjugate Gradient Method
for Adaptive Nonlinear Filtering,'' joint with S. Rajan, K. S. Joo, and T.
Bose, Proceeding of the IEEE Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems,
August, 1994, pp. 1327-1330.
- ``Optimal m-Stage Runge-Kutta
Schemes for Steady-state Solutions of Hyperbolic Equations,'' Proceedings
of The 14th IMACS World Congress on Computational and Applied Mathematics,
Vol. 3, July, 1994, pp. 1175-1179.
- ``Optimal m-Stage Runge-Kutta
Schemes for Steady-state Solutions of Hyperbolic Equations and Solutions
of Nonsymmetric Systems of Linear Equations,'' A Collection of
Technical Papers -- 1993 Conference on Scientific and Engineering
Computing for Young Chinese Scientists, August 1993, pp. 27-32.
- ``Optimal m-Stage Runge-Kutta
Schemes for Solving Steady State Solutions of Hyperbolic Equations,'' joint
with C. Chiu, Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations,
9, 1993, pp. 643-666.
- ``Adaptive Bilinear
Filtering,'' joint with T. Bose, Proceeding of IEEE International
Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Chicago, May 1993, pp. 48-51.
- ``Design of Two-dimensional
Digital Filters in the Spatial Domain,'' joint with T. Bose, IEEE
Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 41, No. 3, March 1993, pp.
1464-1469.
- ``Two's Complement
Quantization in Orthogonal Biquad Filters,'' joint with T. Bose and D.
Trautman, Circuits, systems and signal processing, 1993.
- ``Authors' Reply to 'Comments
on Overflow oscillations in state-space digital filters,'' joint with T.
Bose, IEEE Transaction on Circuits and Systems, Sept. 1992.
- ``Conjugate Subspaces Decomposition
and its Application in Solving Linear Systems with Many Right-hand
Sides,'' Linear Algebra and its Application, Vol. 162-164, Feb.
1992, pp. 739-943.
- ``Stability of Digital
Filters Implemented with Two's Complement Truncation Quantization,'' joint
with T. Bose, IEEE Transaction on Signal Processing, Vol. 40, No.
1, Jan. 1992, pp. 24-31.
- ``Overflow Oscillations in
State-space Digital Filters,'' joint with T. Bose, IEEE Transaction on
Circuits and Systems, Vol. CAS-38, July 1991, pp. 807-810.
- ``Stability of Normal Form
Digital Filters with Two's Complement Quantization,'' joint T. Bose and F.
Brammer, Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. Acous. Speech and Signal Processing,
Vol. 3, May 1991, pp. 1889-1892.
- ``Conjugate Subspace
Decomposition and its Application in Solving Linear Systems with Many
Right-hand Sides,'' The Center for Supercomputing Research and Development
Report No. 1024, October 1990.
- A Parallel Quasi-Newton
Method for Partially Separable Large-Scale Minimization, The Center for
Supercomputing Research and Development Report No. 1028, October 1990.
- ``A parallel quasi-Newton
method for partially separable large scale minimization,'' joint with
S.-P. Han, Annals of Operation Research, Vol. 14, 1988, pp.
195-211.
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· PRESENTATIONS
- “Creating Effective Homework Sets with WeBWorK: MAA
PREP 2011”, Joint with
John Travis, Poster, The 2012 MAA-AMS Joint Meeting at Boston, January 5,
2012.
- “Eigenpairs of Adjacency
Matrices of Balanced Signed Graphs,” The 2011 Fall Carolina Math
Seminar, The Citadel, October 28, 2011.
- “Eigenpairs of Adjacency Matrices of Balanced Signed
Graphs,” The 16th Conference of International Linear Algebra
Society, Pisa, Italy, June 21-25, 2010.
- “Eigenpairs of Adjacency Matrices of Balanced Signed
Graphs,” The 2010 MAA-SE Annual Meeting, Elon University, March
26-27, 2010.
- ``Inverse Eigenvalue Problems Arising in Population
Models," The 8th WSEAS Conference on Applied Computer and Applied
Computational Science, Hangzhou, China, May 20-22, 2009
- ``Properties of Permanent and Hadamard Product," The
2009 SIAM-SEAS Annual Conference, University of South Carolina, April 4-5,
2009.
- ``Stability of 2-D Discrete Systems with Periodic
Coefficients," the 14th Conference of ILAS, Shanghai
University, Shanghai, China,
July 16-20, 2007.
- ``On Permanental and Hadamard Properties of Basic Soules
Matrices," the 13th Conference of ILAS, Amsterdam, Netherlands,
July 18 - 21, 2006.
- ``Singular Values of Interval Matrices,'' the International
Conference on Nonlinear Programming with Applications, Fudan University,
Shanghai, May 29 - June 1, 2006.
- ``Single and Double Soules Matrices'', Departmental
brown-bag lunch presentation, October, 2005
- ``On Single and Double Soules Matrices,'' the First
International Workshop on Matrix Analysis, Beijing
Normal University,
Beijing, China, June, 2005.
- ``Soules Matrices For Nonnegative Matrix Factorization,''
Graduate Colloquium, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Utah State University,
February, 2005.
- ``Spectral Properties of a Row-Stochastic Leslie Matrix,''
The 2004 SIAM Annual
Meeting and SIAM
Conference on Life Science, Portland,
OR, July 10-14, 2004.
- ``Spectral Properties of a Row-Stochastic Leslie Matrix,''
The 2004 SIAM-SEAS Annual Meeting, Eastern Tennessee State
University, April
2-3, 2004.
- ``The Superiority of a New Type (2,2)-Step Iterative Method
over the Related Chebyshev Method,'' The SIAM
Conference on Applied Linear Algebra, The College of William
and Mary, July 15-19, 2003.
- ``The Superiority of a New Type (2,2)-Step Iterative Method
over the Related Chebyshev Method,'' The 82nd Annual Meeting of MAA-SES
and the 27th Annual Meeting of SIAM-SEAS, Clemson University,
March 21-22, 2003.
- ``An Estimation of the Spectral Radius of Block Structured
Matrices'', The 10th ILAS Conference on ``Challenges in Matrix Theory'', Auburn, AL,
June, 10-13, 2002.
- ``An Upper Bound on the Spectral Radius of Block Structured
Matrices Arising in the Design of 2-D Digital Filters with Periodic Coefficients'',
The SIAM-SEAS Annual Meeting at Western Carolina University, Cullowhee,
NC, April 19-20, 2002.
- ``An Eigenvalue Problem Arising in the Design of 2-D Filters
with Periodic Coefficients'', Special Session on Matrix Theory at The 2002
AMS and MAA Spring Southeastern Section Meetings, Georgia Institute of
Technology, March 8-10, 2002.
- ``Fast Minimization Algorithms for Spectral Estimation with
White and Color Noise'', The SIAM
Conference on Linear Algebra in Signals, Systems and Control, Boston, MA,
August 13-16, 2001.
- ``Generalized Eigenvalue Problems in Spectral Estimation,''
The 25th SIAM-SEAS Annual Meeting, Coastal Carolina University,
March 16-17, 2001.
- ``What Is Inside The Box? - A Brief Talk on System
Identification, Estimation and Approximation, '' The Phi Kappa Phi Brown
Bag Talk, Citadel, February 21, 2001.
- ``A Direction Set Based Algorithm for Adaptive Spectral
Estimation,'' SPIE Conference on Advanced Signal Processing Algorithms,
Architectures, and Implementations, San Diego, California, July 30-August
2, 2000.
- ``A Fast Adaptive Algorithm for Spectral Estimation,'' the
AMS-IMA-SIAM Summer Research Conference on Structured Matrices in Operator
Theory, Numerical Analysis, Control, Signal and Image Processing,
University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, June 27 - July 1,
1999.
- ``Stability of 2-Dimensional Discrete Systems with Periodic
Coefficients,'' The 1999 SIAM
Annual Meeting, Atlantic,
GA, May 12-15, 1999.
- ``What Are the Good Direction Sets?'' The Sixth SIAM Conference on Optimization, Atlantic, GA,
May 10-12, 1999.
- ``A Direction Set Based Algorithm For A Class Of Adaptive
Least Squares Problems,'' Department of Mathematics, College of Charleston,
March 26, 1999.
- ``Experiences of Teaching Numerical Methods at The Citadel
and General Issues,'' organizer and speaker of the minisymposium
``Teaching Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing at the
Undergraduate Level,'' at The SIAM Southeastern Atlantic Section Meeting
held at The University of Tennessee at Knoxville, March 19-20, 1999.
- ``A Fast Adaptive Algorithm for Spectral Estimation,'' A
Conference in Honor of Robert J. Plemmons on the Occasion of His 60th
Birthday, held at Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina,
January 8-9, 1999.
- ``The Stability and Convergence of a Direction Set Based
Algorithm for Adaptive Least Squares Problems,'' The 7th ILAS Conference,
University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison,
Wisconsin, July 3-6, 1998.
- ``Experiences in Teaching of Linear Algebra and Differential
Equations -- Study Applications through MatLab Projects,'' The 77th Annual
Meeting of SEAS-MAA, College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina,
March 13-14, 1998.
- ``Stability of Two-Dimensional Discrete Systems with
Periodic Coefficients,'' The 21st Annual Meeting of SIAM-SEAS, NCSU, Raleigh, NC,
April 4-5, 1997.
- ``A Direction Set Based Algorithm For Adaptive Filtering,''
The 21st Annual Meeting of SIAM-SEAS, NCSU, Raleigh, NC,
April 4-5, 1997.
- ``A Direction Set Based Algorithm For Adaptive Filtering,''
International Linear Algebra Society Symposium on ``Fast Algorithms for
Signal Processing and Image Processing'' and Canadian Mathematical Society
Special Session on Linear Algebra, Winnipeg,
Canada,
June 6-9, 1997.
- ``A Direction Set Based Algorithm For Adaptive Filtering,''
The Third IMACS International Symposium on Iterative Methods in Scientific
Computation, Jackson Hole,
Wyoming, July 9-12, 1997.
- ``Near Optimal 2-Stage Runge-Kutta Schemes For Solving A Class
of Nonsymmetric Linear Systems,'' The Third IMACS International Symposium
on Iterative Methods in Scientific Computation, Jackson Hole, Wyoming,
July 9-12, 1997.
- ``Optimal m-stage Runge-Kutta Schemes for Steady-State
Solutions of Hyperbolic Equations'', The Conference Proceeding for The
14th IMACS World Congress on Computational and Applied Mathematics,
Atlanta, Georgia, July, 1994.
- ``Region-Dependent Optimal m-stage Runge-Kutta Schemes for
Solving a Class of Nonsymmetric Linear Systems'', The 18th SIAM-SEAS 1994
Annual Meeting, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, March, 1994.
- ``Optimal m-stage Runge-Kutta Schemes for Steady-state
Solutions of Hyperbolic Equations and Solutions of Nonsymmetric Systems of
Linear Equations,'' Conference on Scientific and Engineering Computing,
Beijing, China, August 16-21, 1993.
- ``Eigenvalue Problems in Digital Signal Processing'',
SIAM-SEAS 1993 Annual Meeting,
Georgia
Southern University, March 26-27, 1993
- ``Optimal m-stage Runge-Kutta Schemes for Solving
Nonsymmetric Systems of Linear Equations,'' The 3rd Conference of the
International Linear Algebra Society, Pensacola, Florida,
March 17-20, 1993
- ''BIBO Stability of Discrete Bilinear System'', The Third
IMA Conference on Mathematics in Signal Processing, Coventry, England,
December 13-17, 1992.
- ''Minimax Problems Arising in Optimal $m$-stage Runge-Kutta
Schemes for Solving Steady-state Solutions of Hyperbolic Systems'', The
Fourth SIAM Conference on Optimization, Chicago, Illinois,
May 7-10, 1992.
- ''Optimal $m$-stage Runge-Kutta Schemes for Solving
Nonsymmetric Systems of Linear Equations'', SIAM-SEAS 1992 Annual Meeting,
Huntsville, Alabama, April 2-3, 1992.
- ``Convergence Behavior of the Updated Conjugate Subspaces
Method in Optimization'', SIAM-SEAS 1991 Annual Meeting, Western Carolina
University, April
2-3, 1991
- ``Conjugate Subspace Decomposition and its Application in
Linear Algebra'', Conference on the Direction in Matrix Theory, Auburn, Alabama,
March 20-23, 1990.
- ``Updated Conjugate Subspace Method for Partially Separable
Large Scale Optimization'', Operation Research Society of America/The Institute
of Management Sciences the 30th
National Meeting, Philadelphia,
October, 1989.
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· GRANTS
- Principal Investigator: “Improving
Teaching and Learning Mathematics by Integrating WeBWork
Online Homework Into Math Courses at The Citadel, The Citadel Foundation
Research Grant, $2922, 40,
July 2013.
- Principal Investigator:
“Improving Teaching and Learning Mathematics by Integrating WeBWork
Online Homework Into Calculus Sequences at The Citadel, The Citadel
Foundation Research Grant, $2949.00, July 2012.
- Principal Investigator:
“Online-interactive textbook on Numerical Methods for courses
Numerical Methods I and II (MATH 343/344).” The Citadel Foundation
Research Grant, $3000, July 2011.
- Principal Investigator:
“Online-interactive textbook on Numerical Methods for courses
Numerical Methods I and II (MATH 343/344).” The Citadel Foundation
Research Grant, $3000, July 2010.
- Principal Investigator:
“Blind Source Separation/Channel Equalization of Nonlinear Channels
with Binary Inputs.’’
The Citadel Foundation Research Grant, $2648, July 2009.
- Principal Investigator, I: Upper and Lower Bounds of Singular
Values of Interval Matrices; II: Inverse M-matrix Problem. The
Citadel Foundation Research Grant, $2,078, July, 2008.
- Principal Investigator, I:
Single and Double Soules Matrices and Applications; II: Blind Source
Separation; III: Upper and Lower Bounds of Singular Values of Interval
Matrices. The Citadel Foundation Research Grant, $2,998, July, 2007
- Principal Investigator,
three projects:
"Nonnegative Matrix Factorizations and Applications in Signal and
Image,"
The Citadel Faculty Research Grant $2,981.72: July, 2006.
- Principal Investigator,
three projects:
(1) "The optimal Successive Over-Relaxation Method for a class of
shifted companion matrices"
(2) "Spectral properties of a row-stochastic Leslie matrix"
(3) "The Conjugate Gradient algorithm for the non-negative matrix
factorizations and applications in signal and image processing"
The Citadel Faculty Research Grant $3,000: July, 2005.
- Principal Investigator, The
Superiority of a New Type of (2,2)-Step Iterative Methods over the Related
Chebyshev Method. The Citadel Foundation Research Grant, $2,761, July,
2004.
- Principal Investigator,
Upper Bounds on the Spectral Radius of Block Structured Matrices Arising
in the Design of the Two-Dimensional Digital Filters with Periodic
Coefficients. The Citadel Foundation Research Grant, $1,670, July, 2003.
- Principal Investigator, (1)
A Study of How Student's Motivation, Study Skills, and Performance Relate
to The Teaching in Precalculus (Math 119); (2) A Direction Set Based
Algorithm for Adaptive Noise Cancellation in Signal Processing. The
Citadel Development Foundation Research Grant, $2,799, July, 2002.
- Principal Investigator, A
Direction Set Based Algorithm for Adaptive Least Squares Problems in Spectral
Estimation, The Citadel Development Foundation Research Grant, $1,734,
July, 2001.
- Principal Investigator, A
Direction Set Based Algorithm for A Class of Adaptive Least Squares
Problems and Applications in Signal and Image Processing, The Citadel
Development Foundation Research Grant, $1,656, July, 2000.
- The National Science
Foundation Grants for Summer Conferences. ``A Fast Adaptive Algorithm for
Spectral Estimation,'' $400, June, 1999.
- Principal Investigator, A
Direction Set Based Algorithm for Adaptive Filtering, The Citadel
Development Foundation Research Grant, $2,484, July, 1999.
- National Science Foundation
Travel Grants for Women in Mathematics and Engineering $500, June, 1998.
- Principal Investigator, The
Identification and Stability of 2-D PSV Digital Filters, The Citadel
Development Foundation Research Grant, $3864.95, July, 1997.
- American Mathematical
Society Summer Research Conference Travel Grant $500, Summer, 1995.
- Principal Investigator, (1)
The Convergence of the Direction Search Method for Discrete Nonlinear
Minimization Problems in Multi-arc Stereotactic Radiosurgery Treatment
Planning; (2) BIBO Stability of Discrete Bilinear Filters of Order N>3,
The Citadel Development Foundation Research Grant, $2560.35, July, 1996.
- Principal Investigator, (1)
Optimal 2-stage Runge-Kutta method for steady-state solutions of
hyperbolic systems and solutions of nonsymmetric systems of linear
equations; (2) BIBO stability of discrete bilinear filters, The Citadel
Development Foundation Research Grant, $2282.35, July, 1995.
- Principal Investigator, (1)
Optimal m-stage Runge-Kutta method for steady-state solutions of
hyperbolic systems and solutions of nonsymmetric systems of linear
equations; (2) BIBO stability, implementation and identification of
discrete bilinear filters, The Citadel Development Foundation Research
Grant, $4735.32, July, 1994.
- Principal Investigator, (1)
Optimal m-stage Runge-Kutta method for steady-state solutions of
hyperbolic systems and for nonsymmetric systems of linear equations; (2)
Implementation and identification of bilinear systems using neural
networks, The Citadel Development Foundation Research Grant, $4032.80,
July, 1993.
- Principal Investigator, The
rate of convergence of the Updated Conjugate Subspaces Method for the
partially separable and general structured minimization, The Citadel
Development Foundation Research Grant, $3752, July, 1992.
- Principal Investigator,
Updated Conjugate Subspaces Method in optimization and in solving linear
systems, The Citadel Development Foundation Research Grant, $2826.00,
July, 1991
- Principal Investigator,
Updated Conjugate Subspaces Method in optimization and in solving linear
systems, The Citadel Development Foundation Research Grant, $880.00,
October, 1990.
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· PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
- Organization Officer:
- South
Carolina Academy of Science Council Member, 2014-2017
- MAA
State Director of South Carolina, 2009 - 2012
- Treasurer
of Charleston Chapter of Sigma Xi, Society of Scientific Research,
2003-present
- President
of Southeastern Atlantic Section of SIAM, 1997-1998
- Secretary
and Treasurer of Southeastern Atlantic Section of SIAM,
1996-1997
- Reviewer:
- Mathematical
Reviews, 1992-present
- The
Electronic journal of Linear Algebra
- Journal
of Computational and Applied Mathematics
- Optimization
- A Journal of Mathematical Programming and Operations Research
- IEEE
Transactions on Circuits and Systems, Part II
- IEEE
Transactions on Signal Processing
- Conference Organizer:
- The
2014 SCJAS Fall Workshop, November 1, 2014.
- The
2008 MAA-SE Annual Meeting, March 28-29, 2008, chair of the organizing
committee, 485 participants.
- The
29th SIAM Southeastern Atlantic Section Conference, March 25-26, 2005,
jointly with the College
of Charleston, with
180 participants.
- The
21st SIAM Southeastern
Atlantic Section Conference, April 4-5, 1997, at UCSU, Raleigh, North Carolina.
- The
19th SIAM Southeastern Atlantic Section Conference, March 24-25, 1995, at
The Citadel with 140 participants.
- Conference
Minisymposium Organizer and Session Chair:
- The
SIAM Conference on
Applied Linear Algebra, The College
of William and
Mary, July 15-19, 2003.
- The
82nd Annual Meeting of MAA-SES and the 27th Annual Meeting of SIAM-SEAS, Clemson University, March 21-22, 2003.
- The
1999 SIAM Annual
Meeting, Atlantic, GA, May 12-15, 1999.
- Minisymposium
on the Teaching of Numerical Analysis at the Undergraduate Level at The
1999 SIAM-SEAS Annual Meeting, University of Tennessee at Knoxville,
Knoxville, TN, March 19-20, 1999.
- The
77th Annual Meeting of SEAS-MAA, College of Charleston, Charleston, South
Carolina, March 13-14, 1998.
- The
21st Annual Meeting of Southeastern Atlantic Section of Society for
Industrial and Applied Mathematics, North Carolina State
University, April
4-5, 1997.
- International
Linear Algebra Society Symposium on ``Fast Algorithms for Signal
Processing and Image Processing,'' University
of Manitoba, Canada,
June, 1997.
- The
76th Annual Meeting of Mathematical Association of America, Spelman College
and Georgia Institute of Technology, 1997.
- Summer Institutes, Workshops,
Minicourses and Conferences:
- 2015
SCAS Annual Meeting, Furman University, April 11, 2015.
- 2015
MAA-SE Annual Conference, Wilmington, NC, March 14, 2015.
- 2015
AMS-MAA JMM, Workshop for Chairs of Mathematics Departments, San Antonio,
Texas, January 8-12, 2015.
- 2014
SCAS Annual Meeting, Trident College, North Charleston, SC, April 5,
2014.
- 2014
MAA-SE Annual Meeting, Tennessee Tech University, Cookville,
TN, March 13-14, 2014.
- 2013
Conference of the International Linear Algebra Society, Providence, RI,
June 3-7, 2013.
- 2013
SCAS Annual Meeting, Benedict College, Columbia, SC, April 12, 2013.
- 2013
MAA-SE Annual Meeting, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC, March 15-16,
2013.
- 2013
AMS-MAA JMM, Short Courses “Problem-Based Course for Teachers”
and “Introduction to the Calculus of Variation”, San Diego,
CA, January 7-13, 2013.
- MAA
MathFest, Mini-course “WeBWorK Homework Problems with Embedded
Flash Applets”, Wisconsin, August 2-4, 2012.
- MAA
Professional Enhancement Program “Creating Effective Homework Sets
with WeBWorK,” Washington, D.C, June 23 – 26, 2011.
- MAA-SE
Workshop “Introduction to Cryptology”, University of Alabama,
Tuscalossa, AL, April 2-3, 2011.
- AMS-MAA
Short Course “Dynamic Visualization Tools for Multivariable
Calculus – introduction to Cal3D,” New Orleans, LA, Jan 6-9,
2011.
- The
National Computational Science Institute (NCSI) Summer Workshop
“Intermediate Parallel Programming & Cluster Computing,”
University of Oklahoma, August 8-14, 2010.
- AMS-MAA
Short Courses: “Using GeoGebra to create activities and applets for
visualization”, and “Directing undergraduate
research.” Washington
DC, Jan. 6-8, 2009.
- MAA
Professional Enhancement Program “Expository Writing to Communicate
Mathematics”, Washington, D.C, June 30 – July 3, 2008.
- MAA
Professional Enhancement Program “Wavelets and Applications”,
University of St. Thomas,
June 6 – June 9, 2007.
- The
2006 Chinese Language Teachers Association, Nashville, November, 2006.
- Short
Course on "Elements of Mandarin", University of Pennsylvania,
July, 2006.
- Mini-course
on "Internet-based Multivariable Calculus," held at the
eighty-fifth annual meeting of the Southeastern Section of the
Mathematical Association of America (MAA-SEA) and the thirtieth annual
meeting of the SIAM Southeast Atlantic Section (SIAM-SEAS, Auburn University,
Auburn, Alabama, March 31- April 1, 2006.
- Mini-courses
on "Java Applets in Teaching Mathematics" and "Getting
Students Involved in Undergraduate Research" held at the MAA-AMS
Joint Meeting, Phoenix,
AZ, Jan. 7-11, 2004.
- Mini-courses
on ``The Mathematics of Presidential and Other Elections'' and ``Music
and Mathematics'', held at Mathfest 2002, University of Vermont,
August 1-3, 2002.
- The
First Annual Charleston
Connections: Innovations in Higher Education Conference, The Citadel,
June 1-2, 2001.
- Writing
Cross Curriculum Retreat - Culture Diversity, Seabrook, SC,
March 11, 2001.
- Workshop
on The Interface of Scholarship and Teaching, The Citadel, January 11-12,
2001.
- Workshop
on Computational Information Retrieve, North
Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC,
October 21-22, 2000.
- Minicourse
on A Dynamical Systems Approach to the Differential Equations Course, at
the Mathfest 2000, University of California at Los Angeles, August 3-5,
2000.
- Short
Courses on (1) Introduction to Image Recognition Using Statistical
Filters, Wavelets, and Neural Networks; (2) Fundamentals of Digital
Signal and Image Processing, at the SPIE 45th Annual Meeting, San Diego,
California, July 30 - August 2, 2000.
- The
NSF Short Course for Teachers on Calculus and Precalculus: An Integrative
Approach, Harvard
University, June
12-14, 2000.
- The
Conference on Differential Equations and Computational Mathematics, Georgia
Southern University, April 1, 2000.
- The
MAA-SEAS Annual Meeting, University
of North Carolina at Charlotte, March 11,
2000.
- AMS-IMS-SIAM
Joint Summer Research Conference on Structured Matrices in Operator
Theory, Numerical Analysis, Control, Signal and Image Process, University
of Colorado, June 27 - July 1, 1999.
- Optimization
in Finance, The Sixth SIAM
Conference on Optimization, Atlanta,
GA, May 9-15, 1999.
- Wavelets,
The 76th Annual Meeting of Mathematical Association of America, Spelman College
and Georgia Institute of Technology, 1997.
- The
Julia Robinson Celebration of Women in Mathematics Conference, July 1-3,
1996, at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley, California.
- Summer
Research Conference on CG-related Methods, July 9-13, 1995, at University of Washington,
Seattle, Washington.
- Computation
Science Workshop, August 8-12, 1994, at University of New
Mexico.
- ATLAST:
Augment the Teaching Linear Algebra through the use of Software Tools, by
NSF and The International Linear Algebra Society, University
of Maryland at College Park, July 22-25, 1992.
- Computers
in the Classroom, by The Institute for Academic Technology, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, June 18, 1991.
- The
Summer Institute on Mathematica/Calculus, at the University of Illinois,
Champaign-Urbana, June 18-22, 1990.
- Panel Member:
The National Science Foundation Panel Meeting on The Undergraduate Course
and Curriculum Development Program of the National Science Foundation,
August 12-14, 1992, Washington
D.C.
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committee, School of Education, 2003-2004.
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- Community:
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STEM Festival (2014 - )
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