Campus Directory

Division Baskin School of Engineering

Department/College/Unit Computer Science and Engineering

Title Professor

Affiliation Faculty

Faculty Type Regular Faculty

Areas of Expertise Computer Science
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Human Computer Interaction
Information Technology Management
Language Processing

Web Site

Primary Office Location Jack Baskin Engineering Building
Engineering 2, Room 565

Office Hours By appointment

Mail Stop SOE3

Biography, Education and Training

Professor Zhang's research interests are artificial intelligence, informational  search and recommendation, natural language processing, machine learning and data mining and computational economics. She has received various awards, including ACM SIGIR Best Paper Award, National Science Foundation Faculty Career Award, Air Force Young Investigator Award, Google Research Award, Microsoft Research Award, and IBM Research Fellowship. She has served as program chair, area chair and PC member for various top tier conferences. She was an associate editor for ACM Transaction on Information Systems. Dr. Zhang received her Ph.D. and M.S. from School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University and her B.S. from Tsinghua University.

Yi Zhang is also a co-founder of Rul.ai, a low/no code omni channel conversational AI platform. She has been a consultant or technical adviser for several large companies (Alibaba, HP, Toyota, etc.) and startups

Summary of Expertise

• Information retrieval
• Recommendation systems
• Natural language processing
• Data mining
• Machine learning

Research Interests

• Information retrieval
• Recommendation systems
• Social media analysis
• Natural language processing
• Data mining
• Machine learning
• Artificial intelligence
• Computational economics

Selected Publications

Google Scholar

Courses CSE145 Introduction to Data Mining
CSE144 Applied Machine Learning: Deep Learning
CSE272 Information Retrieval
TIM147 Introduction to Data Mining for Business
CSE243 Data Mining