Kwai L. WONG, Ph.D.
104 South College, Joint Institute for Computational Science, University
of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996-1508.
Tel:(423)-974-9488, Fax:(423)-974-3949, Email: wong@cs.utk.edu
Kwai L. WONG is a Research Scientist of the Joint
Institute for Computational Science at the University of Tennessee,
Knoxville. His primary
research interest includes parallel numerical linear algebra,
sparse iterative solvers, finite element methods, and computational
fluid dynamics.
Education
- Ph.D., Engineering Science and Mechanics, University of Tennessee, 1995.
- MS, Mathematics, University of Tennessee, 1986.
- BS, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, University of Tennessee, 1982.
Employment
- Research Scientist (January 98 - present) - Joint Institute for
Computational Science, University of Tennessee.
- Adjunct Professor (September 97 - present) - Department of
Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Science, University of
Tennessee.
- Postdoctoral Research Associate (May 96 - December 97) - Joint Institute for Computational Science, University of Tennessee.
- Postdoctoral Fellow (October 95 - April 96) - Department of
Mathematics,
Chinese University of Hong Kong.
- Partner & Manager (1987 - 1993) - Dynasty Restaurant and
Dynasty Express,
Knoxville, TN.
Grants
- Modeling of Multiphase Complex Flow - from Tennessee
State University
under a subgrant from NSF HRD to Tennessee State University, $60000,
January 1998 - December 2002.
- Supercomputing Initiatives with Condra Collaboratory/CFD Laboratory
- from Condra Chair of Excellence, College of Engineering,
University of Tennessee,
$26300, January 1998 - June 1999.
- IBM's Shared University Research Grant - from IBM Corporation,
$1300000, November 1996; $460000, January 1998 (Co-PI).
Research and Managing Experience
- Grant Manager - NSF grant, "A MetaCenter Regional Alliance for
Computational Science Collaborations with Historically Black Colleges
and Universities."
- Research Scientist - Computational Fluid Dynamics Analysis of
Ventilation Air Circulation in an Olin Chlor-Alkali Mercury Cell Plant.
- Investigator - Evaluation and Testing of the WIND Code, A New
Computational Platform from the NPARC Alliance.
- Advisor - Parametric Study of Space Frame Analysis
on a Cluster of PC's
Using Parallel Processing (MS thesis title).
- Project Leader - A Modular Parallel Computing Platform for Fluid
Simulations with NetSolve.
- Computational Scientist - Modeling of Multiphase Complex Flow.
- Manager & Partner - Co-founded and oversaw operations of franchised
restaurants.
Technical Experience
- Area of Expertise - Numerical analysis (Taught NA course at CUHK),
computational fluid dynamics, numerical linear algebra, numerical treatment
of partial differential equations.
- Workshops & Lecture Notes - Developed and Taught Introduction
to Parallel
Processing, SP2, T3D/E, SGI O2000, MPI, HPF, PVM, PC Clusters, Parallel
Scientific Library workshops with hands-on laboratory exercises
(http://www-jics.cs.utk.edu/training-material.html).
- Course Notes - Parallel Computing for Undergraduate Education,
submitted for Undergraduate Computational Science Award by Krell Institute
in 1997 (http://www-jics.cs.utk.edu/PCUE/WWW).
- Computer Systems - IBM SP2 scientific software consultant,
PI of a computer
training grant on the Origin 2000 at NCSA, project leader of a PC Cluster
running Linux and NT,
trainer of the Cray T3D/E, Intel Paragon, the Thinking Machines CM5,
Maspar MP2, and network of common UNIX workstations.
- Libraries - MPI, PVM, PETSc, Aztec, LAPACK, SCALAPACK, NAG,
ESSL, PESSL,
Matlab, Tecplot, PATRAN, NetSolve.
- Languages - FORTRAN, FORTRAN 90, OpenMP, HPF, C, JAVA, HTML.
- Operating Systems - Unix, AIX & POE, Linux, Windows NT
(server and workstation)
Publications
- K. L. Wong and A. J. Baker, "A Parallel Embedded Finite Element Algorithm
For 3-D Incompressible Flow in Velocity-Vorticity Form", Proc. First
Asian CFD Conference, HKUST, 1995.
- K. L. Wong, "3D CFD Benchmark Results on the 140-node Paragon", Proc. Intel
Supercomputer Users Group Meeting, Knoxville, 1996.