Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Pennsylvania State University
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Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science and Engineering Pennsylvania State University
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| Office: 343J IST Building
Phone/Voice Mail: (814) 865-0193 Fax: (814) 865-3176 Office Hours (Spring 2010): |
E-mail address: shontz@cse.psu.edu
US mail address: Vita: [PDF] (Updated on 1/22/10.) |
Suzanne Shontz received her Ph.D. in applied mathematics from Cornell University in 2005. She received her B.A. in mathematics and B.S. in chemistry from the University of Northern Iowa in 1999 and her M.S. degrees in computer science and applied mathematics from Cornell University in 2002. Prior to joining Penn State in August 2006, she was a postdoctoral associate in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and a Minnesota Supercomputing Institute Research Scholar at the University of Minnesota.
Professor Shontz received a National Physical Science Consortium Fellowship from 1999-2004 and an Honorable Mention for the Alice T. Schafer Prize for Women in Mathematics in 1999. She has presented her research at several international and national venues. Selected recent presentations have included talks at the 2009 International Computational Science Conference, the 2009 SIAM Computational Science and Engineering Conference, the 2008 Internal Meshing Roundtable Conference, the 2008 Second Fields-MITACS Industrial Problem-Solving Workshop, the 2008 Ninth International Workshop on State-of-the-Art in Parallel and Scientific Computing, the 2008 SIAM Optimization Conference, and the 2008 SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing.
Professor Shontz's research interests lie in the area of parallel scientific computing. In particular, her research focuses on the development of unstructured meshing and numerical optimization algorithms and their applications to computational medicine and computational materials science.Recent projects have included the development of efficient mesh optimization algorithms, the generation of meshes for biological computational fluid dynamics simulations, and the development of mesh warping algorithms for cardiology and elasticity applications. Other recent projects have involved the development of efficient geometry optimization methods for electronic structure calculations and the use of approximation models in parallel nonlinear optimization.
Current projects are described below.
Current Research Projects, Recent Publications and Presentations
Mesh Smoothing Algorithms Meshing and Linear Solvers Modeling and Numerical Algorithms for Computer Systems Meshing for Computer Graphics Modeling and Simulation of Medical Device Design Publications Presentations
Dae Wook Kim (Ph.D. Student) Jibum Kim (Ph.D. Student) Thap Panitanarak (Ph.D. Student) Jeonghyung Park (Ph.D. Student) Shankar Prasad Sastry (Ph.D. Student) Nicholas Voshell (Ph.D. Student) Michael Nistor (B.S. Honors Student) Kyle Wray (Applied Research Laboratory, Penn State)
Alumni
Jeonghyung Park (M.S., August 2009) Kyle Wray (B.S., December 2009) Patrick Kasting (B.S. with Honors, May 2007)
Fall 2006
CSE/Math 451 Numerical Computations (2 sections). Course website in ANGEL. Send e-mail to obtain password. Spring 2007
No teaching assignment. Fall 2007
CSE/Math 451 Numerical Computations. Course website in ANGEL. Send e-mail to obtain password. Spring 2008
CSE 598C Meshing Techniques (course ad). Course website in ANGEL. Send e-mail to obtain password. Fall 2008
CSE/Math 555 Numerical Optimization (course ad). Course website in ANGEL. Send e-mail to obtain password. Spring 2009
CMPSC (formerly CSE)/Math 451 Numerical Computations, 2 sections. Course website in ANGEL. Send e-mail to obtain password. Fall 2009
CMPSC (formerly CSE)/Math 451 Numerical Computations, 2 sections (MWF 11:15am-12:05pm and 12:20-1:10pm, 109 Boucke Building) Spring 2010
CSE 598C Meshing Techniques (Tuesdays, 2:30-5:30pm, 223B IST Building); (course ad).
Future Teaching Assignments (TENTATIVE):
Fall 2010
CMPSC/Math 455 Introduction to Numerical Analysis I Spring 2011
CMPSC/Math 456 Introduction to Numerical Analysis II CSE/Math 555 Numerical Optimization Techniques
Conference Committees
2010 Chair, Program Committee, 19th International Meshing Roundtable 2009 Program Committee, 18th International Meshing Roundtable. 2009 Co-Organizer, Professional Development Evening, SIAM Annual Meeting. 2009 Doctoral Showcase Committee, Supercomputing Conference. 2009 Penn State Medical Informatics Retreat Committee. 2007 Posters Committee, Supercomputing Conference 2006 Member, Grace Hopper Conference Committee on Presentations, Panels, and Workshops Workshops
2008 Invited Academic Expert, Fields-MITACS Industrial Problem-Solving Workshop 2008 Editor of the NXP Semiconductor Group report for the 2nd Fields-MITACS Industrial Problem-Solving Workshop 2006 Invited Academic Expert, Fields-MITACS Industrial Problem-Solving Workshop 2006 Editor of the National Research Council (NRC) Group report for the Fields-MITACS Industrial Problem-Solving Workshop Refereeing
Journals:
SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software Engineering with Computers Journal of Computational Physics Computer Physics Communications Computational Materials Science Journal of Chemical Physics ACM Crossroads Magazine Conferences:
International Meshing Roundtable Conference International Conference on Parallel Processing Panels:
National Science Foundation Department of Defense Other Service
2007 Faculty Marshall, PSU Commencement 2005- Mentor, Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) Mentor Network