Prof. Zhang received his PhD degree from the University of Queensland, Brisbane in 1991. He is now the Director of UTS Priority Research Centre for Quantum Computation and Intelligent Systems. His research areas are Data Mining and Agent Technology.  He has published more than 200 papers in international journals and conference proceedings.  He is currently a Chief Investigator in Data Mining Program for Australian Capital Markets on Cooperative Research Centre. Prof. Zhang is the Chair of the Australian Computer Society National Committee for Artificial Intelligence. He is also a Senior Member of the IEEE Computer Society (IEEE), a Senior Member of Australian Computer Society (ACS), as well as a Member of Association for the Advancement Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). He was an Associate Editor of the editorial board for IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering from 2005 to 2008, and the Editor for Web Intelligence and Agent Systems: An International Journal (IOS Press).

 

Together with Prof. Xingquan Zhu and Prof. David L. Olson, Prof. Zhang organized the special issue for IJSI (Vol.2, No.2) in 2008.