Background
Zhongfei (Mark) Zhang is a professor in the School of Computing at ßÙßÇÂþ». He directs the Multimedia Research Laboratory at ßÙßÇÂþ».
He has a BS (cum laude) in electronics engineering, an MS in information science, both from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, and a PhD in computer science from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
While in the graduate school, he also worked as an Intern student at NEC Research Institute Inc. in Princeton, N.J., and as a technical consultant at Applied Artificial Intelligence Inc. (formerly Amerinex Artificial Intelligence Inc.) in Amherst, Mass.
He was a research scientist at the Center of Excellence for Document Analysis and Recognition and was on the faculty of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, both at SUNY Buffalo, before he joined the faculty at ßÙßÇÂþ».
He also holds many visiting positions while he was on leave from ßÙßÇÂþ» years ago, including a French government CNRS international chair professor at University of Lille 1 in France, a visiting research fellow at Microsoft Research, an NRC visiting fellow, a U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory visiting fellow, a Huang Kuancheng Foundation (in Hong Kong) visiting fellow at Chinese Academy of Sciences in China, a Japanese government JSPS fellow, a visiting faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University in the U.S. and Chuo University in Japan, a QiuShi chair professor at Zhejiang University in China, and an NSC visiting fellow at Academia Sinica in Taiwan.
He is the author of the first monograph on multimedia data mining and is an co-author of the first monograph on relational data clustering, both published by CRC Press. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed academic papers in premier international journals and conferences and several invited papers and book chapters in his areas, has edited or co-edited three books, is the inventor for more than 30 patents, has served as reviewers or program committee members or organization committee members for many international journals and conferences, and has served as grant review panelists for several governmental and private funding agencies, including the NSF and NASA.
His research is supported by federal government agencies, noticeably including NSF, AFOSR and AFRL as well as industrial research labs such as Microsoft Research and Kodak Research.
He is a fellow of IEEE, IAPR, AAIA, and National Academy of Inventors (NAI). He was invited to give keynotes or tutorials at premier international events in his areas. He is or was associate editor and guest editor for several international journals.
Education
- BS, MS, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
- PhD, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Research Interests
- Machine learning
- Data mining and knowledge discovery
- Multimedia information indexing and retrieval
- Computer vision and image understanding
- Pattern recognition
Awards
- Fellow of IEEE, IAPR, AAIA and NAI
- SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities
- SUNY Chancellor's Award on Promising Inventor
- French Government CNRS Chair Professor
- Japanese Government JSPS Fellow
- U.S. National Academies/National Research Council Visiting Fellow
- U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory Visiting Fellow
- Huang Kuancheng Foundation (in Hong Kong) Visiting Fellow
- Zhejiang University (in China) QiuShi Chair Professor
- National Science Council (in Taiwan) Visiting Fellow
- Microsoft Research Visiting Fellow
- Several Best Paper Awards and Service Awards from premier conferences