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Chengcui Zhang

Chengcui Zheng. Professor
University Hall 4143

Research and Teaching Interests: Database Systems, Multimedia Information Retrieval, Data Mining, Machine Learning

Office Hours: By appointment

Education:

  • B.S., Zhejiang University, Computer Sciences
  • M.S., Zhejiang University, Computer Sciences
  • Ph.D., Florida International University, Computer Sciences

 

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Dr. Chengcui Zhang is the director of the Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Laboratory and the graduate program director at CIS. She has published more than 130 peer-reviewed papers in international journals and conference proceedings, including six IEEE Transaction papers.

Dr. Zhang has been the PI/Co-PI of many research grants from National Science Foundation, National Institute of Health, IBM, and eBay, with a total amount of more than 3.8 million dollars. She has served on the program committees of more than 90 international conferences and workshops and taken a leadership role (as a program chair) at the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, the 2012 and the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration, the 2012 and 2016 IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia, and 2010 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering (MUE). She also served as a workshop chair and publicity chair several times for IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, the flagship conference of IEEE Technical Committee on Semantic Computing.

In addition, she is a frequent panelist for National Science Foundation panels and an editorial board member of seven international journals. She is currently the chair of IEEE Technical Committee on Semantic Computing, a steering committee member of the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, and the secretary of IEEE Technical Committee on Multimedia Computing. She received an IEEE MUE Outstanding Leadership Award in 2010 and 8 IEEE IRI service awards from 2009-2016. Dr. Zhang is also a frequent reviewer for prestigious journals including IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Knowledge-based Systems, International Journal of Information Sciences, International Journal of Neural Systems, IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, and IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems.