I am an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at Millersville University. I earned my Ph.D. in computer science at the University of Texas at San Antonio in 2024, M.S. in computer science at California State University, East Bay in 2018, and B.S. in computer science at California State University, Fullerton in 2016. My Ph.D. advisor was Dr. Matt Gibson-Lopez. My research areas include algorithms and computational geometry.
My research area is mainly in computational geometry, specifically art gallery problem variants. I am also interested in quantum computing.
Matt Gibson-Lopez, Erik Krohn, Zhongxiu Yang, The VC-Dimension of Limited Visibility on the Boundary of a Simple Polygon. The 37th Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry (CCCG 2025).
Z. Yang, From Knutt's Axioms to the Art Gallery Problem. Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of The Pennsylvania Association of Computer Science and Information Science Educators (PACISE 2025).
Z. Yang, Computer-Aided Proofs for the VC-Dimension of Art Gallery Variants. ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2024.
Krohn, E., Pahlow, A., Yang, Z. (2024). On Half Guarding Polygons. In: Wu, W., Guo, J. (eds) Combinatorial Optimization and Applications. COCOA 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14461. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-49611-0_24
Matt Gibson-Lopez and Zhongxiu Yang. (2021). The VC-Dimension of Limited Visibility Terrains. International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC), 212, 5:1–5:17.
Spring 2027 - CMSC 340 Computational Models
Fall 2026 - CMSC 151 Introduction to Programming for Data Science I
Fall 2026 - CMSC 161 Introduction to Programming I
Fall 2026 - CMSC 489 Honors Independent Study: Computer Science Education
Spring 2026 - CMSC 453 Large-Scale Data Analytics and Visualization
Spring 2026 - CMSC 340 Computational Models
Fall 2025 - CMSC 489 Honors Independent Study: Quantum Computing
Fall 2025 - CMSC 162 Introduction to Programming II
Fall 2025 - CMSC 161 Introduction to Programming I
Spring 2025 - CSCI 340 Computational Models
Spring 2025 - CSCI 161 Introduction to Programming I
Fall 2024 - CSCI 140 Discrete Structures
Spring 2024 - CS 2233 Discrete Math Structures
Fall 2023 - CS 3343 Analysis of Algorithms
Summer 2022 - CS 2233 Discrete Math Structures
Spring 2022 - CS 2233 Discrete Math Structures
Fall 2021 - CS 1714 Computer Programming II
Email: Zhongxiu DOT Yang AT millersville DOT edu
Office: Roddy 141
Phone: 717-871-4310