Xiaozhong Zhang

Ph.D. Student

Department of Computer Science

School of Computing and Information

University of Pittsburgh

Sennott Square 6414

210 South Bouquet Street

Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA

Email: xiz151 (at) pitt.edu

I am a fifth-year Ph.D. student at Department of Computer Science, School of Computing and Information, University of Pittsburgh. I received my Master degree from Department of Computer Science and Engineering, SUNY Buffalo. I'm a member of the Advanced Data Management Technologies Lab at the University of Pittsburgh. My advisor is Dr. Panos K. Chrysanthis. I am very interested in and passionate about Data Exploration, Data Visualization, and applying Machine Learning to Data Exploration.

Research Interests

Data Exploration
Data Visualization
Machine Learning
Personalized Recommendation

Publications

ViewSeeker: An Interactive View Recommendation Framework.
Xiaozhong Zhang, Xiaoyu Ge, Panos K. Chrysanthis, Mohamed A. Sharaf
In Big Data Research Special Issue on Interactive Big Data Visualization and Analytics, 2021.
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Evaluating Query Strategies for Different Feedback Types in Interactive View Recommendation
Xiaozhong Zhang, Xiaoyu Ge, Panos K. Chrysanthis.
In 24th International Conference Information Visualisation (IV), September 2020.
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Interactive View Recommendation with a Utility Function of a General Form
Xiaozhong Zhang, Xiaoyu Ge, Panos K. Chrysanthis.
In Workshop on Human-In-the-Loop Data Analytics (HILDA), June 2020.
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Leveraging Data-Analysis Session Logs for Efficient, Personalized, Interactive View Recommendation.
Xiaozhong Zhang, Xiaoyu Ge, Panos K. Chrysanthis.
In 5th IEEE International Conference on Collaboration and Internet Computing (CIC), December 2019.
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ViewSeeker: An Interactive View Recommendation Tool.
Xiaozhong Zhang, Xiaoyu Ge, Panos K. Chrysanthis, Mohamed A. Sharaf
In 2nd International Workshop on Big Data Visual Exploration and Analytics (BigVis), March 2019.
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Automatic Understanding of Image and Video Advertisements.
Zaeem Hussain, Mingda Zhang, Xiaozhong Zhang, Keren Ye, Christopher Thomas, Zuha Agha, Nathan Ong, Adriana Kovashka.
In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), July 2017.
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Teaching Experience

Principles of Database Systems (CS2550), Spring '20
Database Management Systems (CS1555), Spring '17-19, Fall '18-19
Algorithm Implementation (CS1501), Fall '16
Programming Languages for Web Applications (CS1520), Summer '16

Industrial Experience

Facebook, Software Engineer Intern, Summer '19
Vipshop, Research Intern, Summer '17
Amazon Web Services, Software Engineer Intern, Summer '14

Last updated on May 8, 2020