Short Bio
My name is Zhe Zhang. I am a Ph.D. student in the Multiagent Systems and Service-Oriented Computing Lab, which is a part of the Department of Computer Science at North Carolina State University. My advisor is Prof. Munindar P. Singh. I received my Master of Science degree from North Carolina State University and Bacholer's degree in Computer Science from Renmin University, China.
Research Interests
Sentiment analysis, text mining, data mining, Machine learning
Natural language processing, information extraction
Social network computing, trust propagation
Natural language processing, information extraction
Social network computing, trust propagation
Honors
- 2014-2015 IBM Ph.D. Fellowship
- 2013-2014 IBM Ph.D. Fellowship
- 2012-2013 IBM Ph.D. Watson Solutions Fellowship
- ACL 2014 student travel award
- Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (China) Silver
- Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (Beijing) Gold
Education
North Carolina State University
PhD candidate in Computer Science
Advisor: Dr. Munindar P. Singh
PhD candidate in Computer Science
Advisor: Dr. Munindar P. Singh
2009 - Present
North Carolina State University
Master of Science
Master of Science
2009 - 2012
Renmin University of China
Bachelor of Engineering in Computer and Information Science
Bachelor of Engineering in Computer and Information Science
2003 - 2007
Recent Industry Experience
Intern
Watson Solutions Core Technology Development Team
IBM
Watson Solutions Core Technology Development Team
IBM
May 2013-Aug. 2013
Intern
Watson Solutions Core Technology Development Team
IBM
Watson Solutions Core Technology Development Team
IBM
May 2012-Aug. 2012
Research Experience
Graduate Research Assistant
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC
Aug. 2009 - Present
Teaching Experience
Teaching Assistant
Course: CSC246 Operating Systems
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC
Course: CSC246 Operating Systems
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC
Fall 2009
Publications
- [C7] Guangchao Yuan, Pradeep Murukannaiah, Zhe Zhang, and Munindar P. Singh. Exploiting Sentiment Homophily for Link Prediction. Proceedings of the 8th ACM Recommender System conference (RecSys). October 2014
- [C6] Anup K. Kalia, Zhe Zhang, and Munindar P. Singh. Estimating Trust from Agents' Interactions via Commitments. Proceedings of the 21st European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI). August 2014
- [C5] Zhe Zhang and Munindar P. Singh. ReNew: A Semi-Supervised Framework for Generating Domain-Specific Lexicons and Sentiment Analysis. Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). June 2014, pages 542–551
- [J4] Chung-Wei Hang, Zhe Zhang, and Munindar P. Singh. Generalized Trust Propagation with Limited Evidence. IEEE Computer, volume 46, number 3, March 2013, pages 78-85.
- [C3] Anup K. Kalia, Zhe Zhang, and Munindar P. Singh. Trustworthy Decision Making via Commitments. Proceedings of the 16th AAMAS Workshop on Trust in Agent Societies (Trust). May 2013.
- [C2] Zhe Zhang, Lixing Huang and Jianhua Tao. "Unit Feature Based Pruning of Large-Scale Speech Corpus" Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Signal Processing, pages 719-722 Oct 2008.
- [J1] Zhe Zhang and Jianhua Tao. "Intelligent Internet Information Retrieval System in the realm of transportation and meteorology." Journal of Transportation Systems Engineering and Information Technology, 2006 6(6): 163-168.