Scholar
Yi Zhang
Google Scholar ID: XnGXs7oAAAAJ
Professor of Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz
Citations & Impact
Citations
2,681
H-index
18
i10-index
26
Publications
20
Co-authors
0
Contact
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Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- She has received numerous awards, including the 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 also received grants from the National Science Foundation, Department of Education, and Air Force.
Research Experience
- She has been involved in several research projects, such as multimodal and knowledge-based question answering and dialog systems, conversational search and recommendations. She has served as program chair, area chair, and PC member for various top-tier conferences and was an associate editor for ACM Transactions on Information Systems.
Education
- Ph.D. and M.S. from the Language Technologies Institute, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University; B.S. in Computer Science from Tsinghua University.
Background
- Her research interests are personalized search and recommendation, natural language processing, machine learning, data mining, and computational economics. She is a Professor in the School of Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Miscellany
- She is a co-founder of Rul.ai, a low/no code omni-channel conversational AI platform. She has been a consultant or technical advisor for several large companies (Alibaba, HP, Toyota, etc.) and startups.
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