YONGZHENG ZHANG
CURRICULUM VITAE
November 15, 2007

PERSONAL INFORMATION
* Name: Yongzheng Zhang
* E-mail: yongzhen@cs.dal.ca
* WWW: http://www.cs.dal.ca/~yongzhen

EDUCATION
* Ph.D. Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada.
  Thesis: A Framework for Summarization of Multi-topic Web Sites.
  Advisors: Dr. Evangelos Milios and Dr. Nur Zincir-Heywood.
  Date: October 2007
  GPA: 4.15/4.3

* M.S. Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada.
  Thesis: World Wide Web Site Summarization.
  Advisors: Dr. Evangelos Milios and Dr. Nur Zincir-Heywood.
  Date: May 2002
  GPA: 4.05/4.3

* B.E. Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Southeast University, China.
  Thesis: Southeast University Employment Information System.
  Advisor: Professor Yajun Liu.
  Date: July 1997
  GPA: 85/100

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
* 05/2006 - present: Senior Research Scientist,
  eBay Research Labs, eBay Inc., San Jose, CA, USA.
  Projects: Shopping-related Page Classification.
            Concept Extraction from Product Web Pages.
            Product Matching in Shopping-related Pages.
            Category Auto-tagging in Sell Your Item.
  Manager: Neel Sundaresan.

* 06/2005 - 09/2005: Summer Intern,
  Search Relevance Team, Yahoo! Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, USA.
  Project: Wikipedia-based Query Expansion Engine.
  Manager: Nawaaz Ahmed.

* 05/2002 - 04/2006: Research Assistant,
  Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada.
  Projects: Term-based Clustering and Summarization of Web Sites.
            Comparing Key Phrase Extraction Methods in Web Site Summarization.
  Advisors: Dr. Evangelos Milios and Dr. Nur Zincir-Heywood.

* 09/2001 - 08/2003: Teaching Assistant,
  Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada.
  CSCI1100 Computer Science I: summer 2002, fall2002.
  CSCI1101 Computer Science II: summer 2002, winter 2003, summer 2003.
  CSCI1200 Microcomputer Application: fall 2001.
  CSCI1204 Computer Techniques for Health and Life Sciences: winter 2002.
  CSCI3150 Artificial Intelligence: fall 2002.
  CSCI6507 Artificial Neural Networks: summer 2003.

* 08/1999 - 07/2000: Software Engineer,
  Ricom Information and Telecommunications Co. Ltd., Nanjing, China
  Project: Customer Service System for China Industrial and Commercial Bank.

* 08/1997 - 07/1999: Instructor and Undergraduate Advisor,
  Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Southeast University, China.
  Fundamentals of Microcomputer Applications: fall 1997, fall 1998.
  Operating Systems: fall 1998.

PUBLICATIONS
* Refereed Journal Articles
  * Yongzheng Zhang, Evangelos Milios, and Nur Zincir-Heywood.
    A Comparative Study on Key Phrase Extraction Methods in Automatic Web Site
    Summarization. Journal of Digital Information Management, Special Issue on
    Web Information Retrieval, 5(5), pages 323-332, October 2007.

  * Wangzhong Lu, Jeannette Janssen, Evangelos Milios, Nathalie Japkowicz, and
    Yongzheng Zhang. Node Similarity in the Citation Graph. Journal of Knowledge
    and Information Systems, 11(1), pages 105-129, April 26, 2006.

  * Yongzheng Zhang, Nur Zincir-Heywood, and Evangelos Milios.
    World Wide Web Site Summarization. Web Intelligence and Agent Systems: An
    International Journal, 2(1), pages 39-53, June 2004.

* Refereed Conference/Workshop Articles
  * Yongzheng Zhang, Nur Zincir-Heywood, and Evangelos Milios.
    Narrative Text Classification for Automatic Key Phrase Extraction in Web
    Document Corpora. In Proceedings of the Seventh ACM International Workshop
    on Web Information and Data Management (WIDM'05), pages 51-58, Bremen,
    Germany, November 5, 2005.

  * Yongzheng Zhang, Evangelos Milios, and Nur Zincir-Heywood.
    A Comparison of Keyword- and Keyterm-based Methods for Automatic Web Site
    Summarization. In Technical Report WS-04-01, Papers from the AAAI'04
    Workshop on Adaptive Text Extraction and Mining, pages 15-20, San Jose, CA,
    USA, July 26, 2004.

  * Yongzheng Zhang, Nur Zincir-Heywood, and Evangelos Milios.
    Term-based Clustering and Summarization of Web Page Collections.
    In Proceedings of the Seventeenth Conference of the Canadian Society for
    Computational Studies of Intelligence (AI'04), pages 60-74, London, ON,
    Canada, May 17-19, 2004.

  * Evangelos Milios, Yongzheng Zhang, Bin He, and Li Dong.
    Automatic Term Extraction and Document Similarity in Special Text Corpora.
    In Proceedings of the Sixth Conference of the Pacific Association for
    Computational Linguistics (PACLing'03), Halifax, NS, Canada, pages 275-284,
    August 22-25, 2003.

  * Yongzheng Zhang, Nur Zincir-Heywood, and Evangelos Milios.
    Summarizing Web Sites Automatically. In Proceedings of the Sixteenth
    Conference of the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence
    (AI'03), Halifax, NS, Canada, pages 283-296, June 11-13, 2003.
    Best Paper Award.

* Other Conference Contributions
  * Yongzheng Zhang, Evangelos Milios, and Nur Zincir-Heywood.
    A Framework for Summarizing Multi-topic Web Sites.
    In the Sixteenth Annual Canadian Conference on Intelligent Systems (IS'06
    Poster Challenge), Victoria, BC, Canada, May 31 - June 2, 2006.

  * Yongzheng Zhang.
    Topic Hierarchy Construction for Web Site Summarization.
    In Proceedings of the 28th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on
    Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR'05 Doctoral
    Consortium), page 687, Salvador, Brazil, August 15, 2005.

  * Yongzheng Zhang, Nur Zincir-Heywood, and Evangelos Milios.
    World Wide Web Site Summarization. In MITACS Atlantic Canada Interchange'03,
    poster, Halifax, NS, Canada, March 24, 2003.

* Technical Reports
  * Yongzheng Zhang, Evangelos Milios, and Nur Zincir-Heywood.
    A Comparison of Keyword- and Keyterm-based Methods for Automatic Web Site
    Summarization. Technical Report CS-2004-11, Faculty of Computer Science,
    Dalhousie University, October 2, 2004.

  * Yongzheng Zhang, Nur Zincir-Heywood, and Evangelos Milios.
    World Wide Web Site Summarization. Technical Report CS-2002-08, Faculty
    of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, October 10, 2002.

HONORS AND AWARDS
* Precarn Inc. Scholarship 2006, Halifax, NS, Canada, November 2005.

* Best Paper Award at the Sixteenth Canadian Conference on Artificial
  Intelligence (AI'03), Halifax, NS, Canada, June 2003.

* Scholarship of Faculty of Graduate Studies, Dalhousie University,
  Halifax, NS, Canada, May 2001 - August 2006.

* Outstanding Student Award in Jiangsu Province, Nanjing, China, May 1996.

REFERENCES
* Available upon request.