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Overview

Kaizhong Zhang is affiliated with the University of Western Ontario in Canada. Their research largely focuses on engineering with a concentration in mechanics of materials and ocean engineering, alongside selected works in molecular biology, environmental chemistry, and pulmonary and respiratory medicine.

The scientist's primary research topics include coal properties and utilization, hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, rock mechanics and modeling, methane hydrates and related phenomena, coal and its by-products, NMR spectroscopy and applications, and prostate cancer diagnosis and treatment.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Kaizhong Zhang include Yuanping Cheng, Liang Wang, Chenghao Wang, Haoyu Zhang, and Xiangqian Xing.

Kaizhong Zhang has published extensively in various venues. The most frequent publication outlets are:

  • Fuel
  • Energy & Fuels
  • International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics
  • Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering
  • Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering

Some recent papers authored or coauthored by Kaizhong Zhang include:

  • 3D visualization of tectonic coal microstructure and quantitative characterization on topological connectivity of pore-fracture networks by Micro-CT, 2021, Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering
  • Pore morphology characterization and its effect on methane desorption in water-containing coal: An exploratory study on the mechanism of gas migration in water-injected coal seam, 2020, Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering
  • Multiscale morphological and topological characterization of coal microstructure: Insights into the intrinsic structural difference between original and tectonic coals, 2022, Fuel
  • Morphological Characterization of the Microcrystalline Structure of Tectonic Coal and Its Intrinsic Connection with Ultra-micropore Evolution, 2022, Energy & Fuels

Kaizhong Zhang's body of work covers 47 publications in engineering fields, with 25 focusing on mechanics of materials and 19 on ocean engineering. The research outputs include analysis related to coal microstructures and gas migration in coal seams, contributing to both academic and practical understanding in hydrocarbon reservoir studies.

Best Publications

  • Simple fast algorithms for the editing distance between trees and related problems

    K. Zhang;D. Shasha

  • PEAKS: powerful software for peptide de novo sequencing by tandem mass spectrometry

    Bin Ma;Kaizhong Zhang;Christopher Hendrie;Chengzhi Liang

  • Alignment of trees: an alternative to tree edit

    Tao Jiang;Lusheng Wang;Kaizhong Zhang

  • SPIDER: software for protein identification from sequence tags with de novo sequencing error.

    Yonghua Han;Bin Ma;Kaizhong Zhang

  • On the editing distance between unordered labeled trees

    Kaizhong Zhang;Rick Statman;Dennis Shasha

  • Comparing multiple RNA secondary structures using tree comparisons

    Bruce A. Shapiro;Kaizhong Zhang

  • On the complexity of comparing evolutionary trees

    Jotun Hein;Tao Jiang;Lusheng Wang;Kaizhong Zhang

  • A constrained edit distance between unordered labeled trees

    Kaizhong Zhang

  • Perfect phylogenetic networks with recombination

    Lusheng Wang;Kaizhong Zhang;Louxin Zhang

  • A general edit distance between RNA structures.

    Tao Jiang;Guohui Lin;Bin Ma;Kaizhong Zhang

  • Combinatorial pattern discovery for scientific data: some preliminary results

    Jason Tsong-Li Wang;Gung-Wei Chirn;Thomas G. Marr;Bruce Shapiro

  • A system for approximate tree matching

    J. Tsong-Li Wang;Kaizhong Zhang;K. Jeong;D. Shasha

  • Approximate tree pattern matching

    Dennis Shasha;Kaizhong Zhang

  • Fast algorithms for the unit cost editing distance between trees

    Dennis Shasha;Kaizhong Zhang

  • Some MAX SNP-hard results concerning unordered labeled trees

    Kaizhong Zhang;Tao Jiang

  • Exact and approximate algorithms for unordered tree matching

    D. Shasha;J.T.-L. Wang;Kaizhong Zhang;F.Y. Shih

  • Algorithms for the constrained editing distance between ordered labeled trees and related problems

    Kaizhong Zhang

  • ON THE EDITING DISTANCE BETWEEN UNDIRECTED ACYCLIC GRAPHS

    Kaizhong Zhang;Jason Tsong-Li Wang;Dennis E. Shasha

  • On the similarity metric and the distance metric

    Shihyen Chen;Bin Ma;Kaizhong Zhang

  • RNA-RNA Interaction Prediction and Antisense RNA Target Search

    Can Alkan;Emre Karakoç;Joseph H. Nadeau;Süleyman Cenk Sahinalp

Frequent Co-Authors

Bin Ma
Bin Ma University of Waterloo
Dennis Shasha
Dennis Shasha New York University
Jason T. L. Wang
Jason T. L. Wang New Jersey Institute of Technology
Gilles A. Lajoie
Gilles A. Lajoie University of Western Ontario
Lusheng Wang
Lusheng Wang City University of Hong Kong
Tao Jiang
Tao Jiang University of California, Riverside
Can Alkan
Can Alkan Bilkent University
Isidore Rigoutsos
Isidore Rigoutsos Thomas Jefferson University
Jacob V. Maizel
Jacob V. Maizel National Institutes of Health
Jotun Hein
Jotun Hein University of Oxford

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