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Chengqi ZHANG (Chair Professor of AI) (张成奇 人工智能讲座教授) BSc (Fudan U), MSc (Jilin U), PhD (Queensland U) DSc（Deakin U） |
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Research Areas: Employment: Chengqi Zhang has joined the Department of Data
Science and Artificial Intelligence at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) as a Chair
Professor of Artificial Intelligence in September 2024. He had been appointed as a Pro Vice-Chancellor (China Enterprise) on
1 December 2021 till 30 November 2025 at the University of Technology Sydney
(UTS), a Distinguished Professor on 27 February 2017 till 2027 at UTS, an
Associate Vice President (Research Relationships China) from 1 December 2017
to 30 November 2021 at UTS, an Executive Director UTS Data Science from 3
January 2017 to 30 November 2017 at UTS, and a Research Professor of Information
Technology from 14 December 2001 at UTS.
Before 2001, he was an Associate Professor from January 1999 to
December 2001 at Deakin University, an Associate Professor from January 1998
to January 1999 at the University of New England (UNE), a Senior Lecturer
from January 1994 to January 1998 at UNE, and a Lecturer from January 1990 to
January 1994 at UNE. In addition, he had been appointed as an Adjunct Professor from 20 March
2017 till 20 March 2020 at UNSW and as a Honorary
Professor from 1 March 2015 to 31 December 2017 at UQ. Education: Prof. Zhang obtained his Bachelor's degree from
Fudan University in March 1982 in Computer Science, Master's degree by
research from Jilin University in March 1985 in Artificial Intelligence, PhD
degree from The University of Queensland in October 1991 in Artificial
Intelligence, followed by a Doctor of Science (DSc – Higher Doctorate) from
Deakin University in October 2002 in Artificial Intelligence. Achievements: He has achieved outstanding research results and provided excellent
leadership during his academic career. His research interests mainly focus on
Distributed Artificial Intelligence and Data Mining. A prolific contributor
to his field, Professor Zhang has published over 388 scholarly articles,
including a number of papers in first-class international journals, such as
Artificial Intelligence, IEEE, and ACM Transactions. As per Google Scholar,
his body of work has attracted more than 34,500 citations, in which the
citations of one paper is nearly 10,000 (9943), and an H-index of 71 (on 01/10/2024).
He has supervised 39 PhD students as the Principal supervisor, a notable 10
of whom have ascended to full professorships. He has been a sought-after
keynote speaker at 33 international conferences. His dedication earned him
the NSW Science and Engineering Award (2011) and the Vice-Chancellor's Award
for Outstanding Research in Leadership at UTS (2011). He was also awarded the
2021 IEEE ICDM Outstanding Service Award.
Leaderships: On 16 April
2008, he accepted a position as the founding Director of the UTS Priority
Research Centre for Quantum Computation & Intelligent Systems (QCIS) till
2 January 2017. Under his leadership,
the Centre has attracted research funding in excess of $16.9 million from the
ARC and industries, and attracted ten ARC Future Fellowships and five ARC
DECRAs awards. QCIS has become the
strongest IT research centre among Australian Universities. In consequence, QCIS
has helped UTS Computer Science to be ranked among the top 100 universities
by QS 2021, and No. 17 worldwide based on Shanghai JiaoTong
University’s academic rankings in 2021. QCIS has established five joint
research centres with Tsinghua University, Shanghai JiaoTong
University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Beijing Institute
of Technology, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. QCIS has spin-off into
two new research centres in 2017 as Centre for Quantum Software and
Information (CQSI) and the Centre for Artificial Intelligence (CAI). Professional: Prof. Zhang is a Fellow of the Australian Computer
Society (ACS) and a Senior Member of the IEEE Computer Society (IEEE).
Additionally, he served in the ARC College of Experts from 2012 to 2014. He
had been elected as the founding Chair of the Steering Committee of the
International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering, and Management
between 2006 and 2014. He has been serving as an Associate Editor for
international journals, including IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data
Engineering from 2005 to 2008; and he served as General Chair for a number of international Conferences including ICDM 2010, KDD 2015 and
IJCAI-2024. He was appointed as the first IJCAI Sponsorship Officer from 2018 to 2023. In
addition, he has been elected as the Chairman of the Australian Computer
Society National Committee for Artificial Intelligence since November 2005
and he has been elected as the Chairman of IEEE Computer Society Technical
Committee of Intelligent Informatics (TCII) from June 2014 to June 2018. Furthermore, he
has been invited to be the judge of IJCAI award committee from 2021 to 2023
and the judge of MIT Technology Review
Innovators Under 35 – TR35 from 2021 to 2024 for China and Asia-Pacific
regions. |
Selective Publications and
Citations:
PhD
opportunities:
If you are interested in to pursuit PhD study under my
supervision, please feel free to send me your CV and research proposal.
Contact
information:
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Room GH805 Department
of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence The Hong
Kong Polytechnic University, |