Faculty/Mei-Lin Zhao

Mei-Lin Zhao

Professor · Computer Science

Computational ScienceLeads Computational Intelligence Group

Biography

Mei-Lin Zhao builds the simulation models that let researchers outside computer science ask 'what if' at a scale no spreadsheet could handle. Her urban climate models are used by two municipal planning offices.

Research Interests

Scientific computingClimate simulationHigh-performance computing

Active Projects

DeploymentComputational Intelligence

Simulation Models for Urban Climate Resilience

Municipal planning offices need to know how neighborhoods will actually experience heat, flooding, and infrastructure strain under different climate scenarios. This project's simulation models are now in active use by two regional planning offices to evaluate proposed interventions.

Computational Intelligence Group Mei-Lin Zhao

Courses Taught

Core200 Level

CSC206

Operating Systems

Operating Systems explains how a computer runs many programs at once, safely and (mostly) fairly. The course covers processes, memory management, and file systems through the lens of the trade-offs an operating system designer has to make.

Daniel Osei 4 cr

Related Faculty

Victor Ansah

Research Professor

Computational Science

Office

Hopper Building, Room 314

m.zhao@cs.northridge.edu