Biography & Research:
Qingpeng Zhang received the B.S. degree in Automation from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2009, and the M.S. degree in Industrial Engineering and the Ph.D. degree in Systems and Industrial Engineering with a minor in Management Information Systems from The University of Arizona, in 2011 and 2012, respectively. Prior to joining CityU, he worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate with The Tetherless World Constellation, Department of Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He also worked at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Chinese Academy of Sciences in the summer of 2011 and 2010, respectively. Currently, he is an Associate Professor with the School of Data Science at CityU. During 2014-2018, he was with the Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, where he is still an affiliate member.
His research interests include healthcare data analytics, medical informatics, network science, social computing, data mining and semantic web.