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Halmos College Professor Honored for His Contributions at Shanghai University
Fuzhen Zhang, Ph.D., professor at NSU’s Halmos College of Natural Sciences and Oceanography, was recently honored with the 2016 Shanghai City Overseas Renowned Professor Award. The award is given by the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission to honor professors from around the globe who are affiliated with the colleges and universities of Shanghai City, China.
Zhang was one of 43 honorees in 2016 and one of two representing Shanghai University, where he has served as a guest professor and a committee member of the International Research Center for Tensor and Matrix Theory (IRCTMT). He also is one of the founders of the Chinese Association of Science, Education, and Culture of South Florida.
The recipient of NSU’s Professor of the Year award in 2013, Zhang joined NSU as a faculty member after receiving his Ph.D. from the University of California—Santa Barbara in 1993.
His research interests include matrix analysis, linear and multilinear algebra, functional analysis, operator theory, and combinatorics. He has published approximately 130 math-related items, including 70 research articles and three books: Linear Algebra: Challenging Problems for Students (Johns Hopkins University Press), Matrix Theory (Springer), and editor of The Schur Complement and Its Applications (Springer).
Zhang has served on the editorial boards of several mathematical journals. He has given 80 talks on mathematics worldwide, including the plenary talk at the 2016 conference on Recent Advances in Linear Algebra and Graph Theory at the University of Tennessee—Chattanooga; the plenary talk at the 18th International Linear Algebra Society (ILAS) Conference in Rhode Island in 2013; and as an invited speaker at the 22nd International Workshop on Matrices and Statistics at Fields Institute at the University of Toronto, Canada, in 2013.
Zhang also has served as chair of the Scientific Organizing Committee of the serial International Conference on Matrix Analysis and Applications.