Jie Zhang is a Professor of the School of Computer Science and Engineering at NTU Singapore, leading the Computational Intelligence Group. He obtained Ph.D. in Cheriton School of Computer Science from University of Waterloo and was the recipient of Alumni Gold Medal in 2009. Then he joined NTU as an Assistant Professor and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2015. From 2017-2018, he was appointed as Tan Chin Tuan Exchange Fellowship, New York University. He has also been appointed as an Adjunct Fellow of Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology (SIMTech), A*STAR since 2020. His papers have been published by top journals and conferences and won several best paper awards. Jie Zhang is also active in serving research communities.

Research Interests

Jie Zhang's research work is in the area of User Modeling and Recommender System, one of the important subareas of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. It has been focused on providing personalized recommendations to users on which others to interact with (e.g., do business with or acquire information from), by modeling: 1) the trust (i.e., reliability, capability and honesty) of the others; and 2) the preferences of the users. Dr. Zhang has made significant contributions to both trust modeling and preference modeling. More interestingly, for accurately modeling trust, he has specifically taken good care of user preference (subjectivity); for accurately modeling preference, he has well leveraged the trust relationships between users.

+ Artificial Intelligence
+ Machine Learning
+ User Modeling
+ Learning to Optimize

Selected Awards

2021 World's Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University
2021 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholars Honorable Mention
2018 ACM Recognition of Service Award
2016 Best Paper Award at 10th IFIP WG 11.11 International Conference on Trust Management (IFIPTM)
2016 Recognition of Editors' Choice Articles by Electronic Commerce Research and Applications journal, Elsevier
2016 Most Visionary Paper at Workshops of 15th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS)
2015 Outstanding Reviewer, Electronic Commerce Research and Applications journal, Elsevier
2013 Best Student Paper Nomination at 12th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS)
2010 Best Student Paper Award at 6th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM)