Short Biography

ChengXiang ("Cheng") Zhai Associate Professor Department of Computer Science (Also Institute for Genomic Biology, Statistics , 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, 2106 SC)

Recent Publications

Honors and Awards

• 2004 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) ( Nominated by NSF)
• 2008 Sloan Research Fellowship Award
• Invited Participant of the National Academy of Engineering's 2006 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium
• ACM SIGIR 2004 Best Paper Award
• ACM KDD 2006 Best Student Paper Award Runner-Up
• ACM KDD 2007 Best Student Paper Award Runner-Up
• NSF CAREER Award (2004)
• UIUC C. W. Gear Faculty Award (2007)
• UIUC Accenture Award for Excellence in Advising (2007)
• UIUC Incomplete List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent (Spring 2005)

Selected Services

• Program Co-Chair: ACM SIGIR 2009, NAACL HLT 2007, ACM CIKM 2004
• Workshop Co-Chair: ACM SIGIR 08 Workshop on Learning to Rank for IR, ACM SIGIR 07 Workshop on Learning to Rank for IR
• Journal Editor: ACM Transactions on Information Systems, Information Retrieval
• Area Chair/Coordinator/Senior PC: ICML 2008, ACM SIGIR 2008, ACM SIGIR 2006, ACL 2006, HLT/EMNLP 2005, HLT/NAACL 2006
• Program Committee Member: ACM SIGIR 2003-2006; ACM CIKM 2003-2007; ECIR 2007;ICML 2005-2006; NIPS 2006-2007; ACL 2003,2005-2006,2008; AAAI 2006, 2008; ACM KDD 2007; IEEE ICDM 2005-2007; WWW 2008.
• Tutorial Chair: ACM SIGIR 2007
• Tutorial Instructor: ACM SIGIR 2005, ACM SIGIR 2006, HLT/NAACL 2004, NAACL HLT 2007

Teaching

• CS410 Introduction to Text Information Systems ( Spring 2008)
• CS598 Integrative Intelligent Information Systems ( Spring 2008)
• CS511 Advanced Database Management Systems (Fall 2007)
  
• CS410 Introduction to Text Information Systems ( Spring 2007)
• CS511 Advanced Database Management Systems (Fall 2006)
  
• CS591CXZ Advanced Topics in Information Retrieval (Fall 2006)
• CS591BIO Advanced seminar in biomedical informatics (Fall 2006)
• 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

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