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Mengchi Zhang

Computer Science · Purdue University West Lafayette

OpenAlex ORCID
Early career · publishing since 2018
Parallel Computing and Optimization TechniquesDistributed and Parallel Computing SystemsCloud Computing and Resource ManagementAdvanced Data Storage TechnologiesInorganic Chemistry and Materials

Publications

18

Citations

122

Est. group size

—

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

9

Publishing since 2018

Research summary
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This record combines work on GPU (graphics processing unit) computing architecture—studying how parallel hardware handles object-oriented programming, virtual function calls, and machine learning workloads, including simulation and performance-modeling tools (SST-GPU, Balar)—with software release contributions to GeNN, a simulator for large-scale neural network modeling. There are also unrelated publications on agricultural irrigation and fertilizer optimization for crops like cucumber and strawberry, suggesting this name may be associated with more than one distinct research area or author identity. Prospective students should note the mixed nature of this record when trying to identify a specific research focus.

GPU architecture and performance simulationParallel and distributed computing systemsSoftware tools for neuromorphic/neural simulation (GeNN)Object-oriented programming overhead on parallel hardwareAgricultural resource optimization (irrigation, fertilization)

Publication output has been irregular over the last decade, with active years (e.g., 2018-2019, 2021) interspersed with gaps (2017, 2022, 2025), and a modest average of about 1.2 publications per year over the last five years.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 1.2/year recently
172018: 3 publications182019: 4 publications4192020: 1 publication202021: 4 publications421222023: 3 publications232024: 1 publication24252026: 2 publications26
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)×5
  • Agronomy×1
  • International journal of agricultural and biological engineering×1
  • Research Square×1
  • arXiv (Cornell University)×1
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Last updated Jul 20, 2026.

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