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ChengXiang ("Cheng") ZhaiAssistant ProfessorDepartment of Computer Science (Also Institute for Genomic Biology and Graduate School of Library and Information Science ) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Office: 2116 Siebel Center (directions) Phone: +1-217-244-4943 Fax: +1-217-265-6494 Email: czhai AT cs DOT uiuc DOT edu Assistant: Donna Coleman (donnakc AT at DOT uiuc DOT edu, +1-217-244-8837, 2120 SC) |
Research Interests: Information Retrieval, Text Mining, Natural Language Processing, Bioinformatics (read more, in the news )
Research Group: Information Retrieval (Also Integrative Bioinformatics , DAIS)
Recent Publications
Honors and Awards
- 2004 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) ( Nominated by NSF)
- ACM SIGIR 2004 Best Paper Award
- NSF CAREER Award (2004)
- UIUC Incomplete List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent (Spring 2005)
Selected Services
- Program Chair (IR): ACM CIKM 2004
- Area Chair/Coordinator: ACM SIGIR 2006, ACL 2006, HLT/EMNLP 2005, HLT/NAACL 2006
- Keynote Speaker: 6th Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval Workshop (DIR 2006)
- Program Committee Member: ACM SIGIR 2004-2006; ACM CIKM 2003-2005; ICML 2005-2006; ACL 2003,2005-2006; AAAI 2006; IEEE ICDM 2005; ECML-PKDD 2006
- Tutorial Chair: ACM SIGIR 2007
- Tutorial Instructor: ACM SIGIR 2005, ACM SIGIR 2006, HLT/NAACL 2004
Teaching
- CS498CXZ/CS410 Introduction to Text Information Systems( Spring 2006)
- CS591BIO Biomedical Informatics Seminar (Spring 2006)
- CS 498-CXZ Algorithms in Bioinformatics (Fall 2005)
- CS 598-CXZ Advanced Topics in Information Retrieval (Spring 2005)
- Complete list of courses taught
