I am Zecheng Zhang, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Notre Dame.
Contacts
Email: zecheng.zhang.math@gmail.com (ND students: please email my official university email listed in the ACMS department faculty page or syllabus.)
Office: 240 Hayes-Healy.
Brief Biography
Zecheng Zhang received a B.Sc. from the Department of Mathematics at Hong Kong Baptist University, followed by a fully funded M.Sc. in Mathematics at the University of Alberta. Zecheng Zhang completed his Ph.D. in Mathematics at Texas A&M University in 2021 under the supervision of Professors Yalchin Efendiev and Eric Chung. After graduation, Zecheng Zhang held a visiting assistant professorship in the Department of Mathematics at Purdue University, working with Professor Guang Lin. Zecheng Zhang then completed a postdoctoral position in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University with Professor Hayden Schaeffer (at UCLA). In August 2023, Zecheng Zhang joined the Department of Mathematics at Florida State University as an Assistant Professor.
Research
Zecheng Zhang’s research began in multiscale finite element methods and has since shifted toward mathematical and scientific machine learning. Zecheng Zhang is interested in the mathematical analysis and computational applications of operator learning for scientific applications such as PDE solving and model reduction. Zecheng Zhang’s work also involves developing foundation models for scientific problems and uncertainty quantification. See my research page for details. Here is my Google Scholar.
Teaching
- Course: I will teach “Topics of Applied Mathematics” in Fall 2025.
- Graduate students: please contact me if you are interested in working with me.
- See my teaching page for details.