
Academic Qualification
Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Illinois, USA ME in Computer Science, Nanjing University, China
Teaching Area Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence
Operating System Principles Knowledge-based Systems
Research Area
STEP perpetual learning Knowledge-based systems Big data analytics Software engineering.
Working Experience
Director, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Macau University of Science and Technology, 2022-present.
Dean, Faculty of Information Technology, Macau University of Science and Technology, 2015-2022.
Department Chair, California State University, Sacramento, 2004 – 2010.
Professor Emeritus, Department of Computer Science, California State University, Sacramento, 2015- present.
Professor, Department of Computer Science, California State University, Sacramento (served as Associate Chair, and Graduate Program Coordinator) 1993-2015.
Visiting Professor, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Sept. 2008 - Jan. 2009.
International Visiting Research Fellowship at Department of Computing, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK, May – June 2008.
Visiting Professor, Naval Postgraduate School, Sept. - Dec. 2000; Jan. - May 1995.
Visiting Professor, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Sept. - Dec. 1994.
Assistant/Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, California State University, Sacramento, 1987-1993.
Teaching/research assistant, Department of EECS, the University of Illinois, Chicago, 1984-1987.
Lecturer, Department of Computer Science, Nanjing University, 1977-1980; and 1982-1984.
Professional Services
International Conferences (General Chair/Co-Chair, PC Chair/Co-Chair, PC Area Chair)
Conference General Co-Chair, the 15th Asia-Pacific Symposium on Internetware (Internetware 2024), Macau, China, July 24-26, 2024.
Conference General Chair, the 34th IEEE International Conference on Tools with AI (ICTAI 2022), Macau, China, November 3-7, 2022.
Conference General Co-Chair, the 20th IEEE International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability, and Security (QRS 2020), Macau, China, December 11-14, 2020.
Honorary Conference Chair, 8th International Conference on Computational Visual Media, (CVM 2020), in cooperation with AsiaGraphics, Macau, China, September 3-5, 2020 (on-line conference due to Covid- 19).
Program Area Chair, 25th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI 2013), Washington DC, November 2013.
Program Co-Chair, 12th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics and Cognitive Computing (ICCI*CC 2013), New York City, NY, July 2013.
Conference General Chair, 25th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE 2013), Boston, Mass., June 2013.
Program Chair, 24th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering
(SEKE 2012), San Francisco, California, July 2012.
Conference General Co-Chair, the 6th International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Knowledge Engineering, Shanghai, China, December 2011.
Program Area Chair, 23rd IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI 2011), Boca Raton, FL, November 2011.
Program Co-Chair, 23rd International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering
(SEKE 2011), Miami, FL, July 2011.
Program Co-Chair, 22nd International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering
(SEKE 2010), San Francisco, California, July 2010.
Program Area Chair, 22nd IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI 2010), Arras, France, October 2010.
Program Co-Chair, 21st International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering
(SEKE 09), Boston, MA, July 2009.
Program Area Chair, 21st IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI 09), New York, NY, November 2009.
Program Co-Chair, 7th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics (ICCI 08), Stanford, California, August 2008.
Program Area Chair, 20th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI 08), Dayton, Ohio, November 2008.
Program Co-Chair, 20th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering
(SEKE 08), San Francisco, California, July 2008.
Program Co-Chair, 6th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics (ICCI 07), Lake Tahoe, California, August 2007.
Program Co-Chair, 19th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering
(SEKE 07), Boston, MA, July 2007.
Program Area Chair, the 19th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, Patras, Greece, October 2007.
Program Co-Chair, IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IRI 2006), Waikoloa, Hawaii, September 2006.
Vice Program Chair, IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, July 2006.
Program Co-Chair, IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics, Irvine, California, August 2005.
Program Co-Chair, IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IRI 2005), Las Vegas, NV, August 2005.
Conference General Chair, the 16th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, Boca Raton, FL, November 2004.
Program Co-Chair, the 4th IEEE Symposium on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering, Taichung, Taiwan ROC, May 2004.
Program Co-Chair, IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IRI 2004), Las Vegas, NV, November 2004.
Program Chair, the 15th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, Sacramento California, November 2003.
Program Co-Chair, Workshop on Application of Petri Nets to Intelligent System Development, the 20th International Conference on Applications and Theory of Petri Nets, Williamsburg VA, 21-25 June, 1999.
Vice Program Chair for the Sixth IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1994.
Program Chair, the Second Golden West International Conference on Intelligent System, Reno, NV, 1992.
Program Committee membership
Served as a member of Program Committee for over 140 international conferences, and as a chair or co-chair for best-paper selection committee, publicity committee, organization committee, seminar or tutorial committee for numerous international conferences.
Reviewer
Served as a reviewer for 35 archival journals (ACM, IEEE, Springer, Elsevier, World Scientific Publishing).
Journal Editorial Boards and Guest Editorships
Currently serving as Associate Editor, or a member of editorial board for the following journals: International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools, International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, Journal of Big Data, Journal of Advanced Mathematics and Applications.
Served as a guest editor for the following journals: IEEE Transactions on SMC-Part B, Journal of Visual Languages and Computing, International Journal of Semantic Computing, International journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools, EATCS Fundamenta Informaticae, Software Quality Journal, International Journal of Cognitive Informatics and Natural Intelligence, International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology.
Selected Journal Papers
Guiyu Xia, Peng Xue, Du Zhang, Qingshan Liu, Yubao Sun, "A Deep Learning Framework for Start-End Frame Pair-Driven Motion Synthesis," IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, Vol.35, No.5, May 2024, pp.7021-7034.
Ji, Xiaoyu, Sun, Zhibin, Lv, Haifeng, Yu, Xiaoyuan, Tang, Suigu, Du Zhang, Liang, Yanyan, "Spatio- Temporal Multivariable Time Vario-zoom Network for Water Level Forecasting based on High- Resolution Hydrological Dataset," Journal of Hydrology [0022-1694], Published 2024, Volume 63.
Han, Tianshun, Gui, Shengnan, Huang, Yiqing, Li, Baihui, Liu, Lijian, Zhou, Benjia, Jiang, Ning, Lu, Quan, Zhi, Ruicong, Liang, Yanyan, Du Zhang, Wan, Jun, "PMMTalk: Speech-Driven 3D Facial Animation from Complementary Pseudo Multi-modal Features," IEEE Transactions on Multimedia [1520-9210], Published 2024.
Wang, BY, Du Zhang, Tian, ZG, "CoroTrans-CL: A Novel Transformer-Based Continual Deep Learning Model for Image Recognition of Coronavirus Infections," Electronics [2079-9292], Published 2023, Volume 12, Issue 4.
Zhang, Tianle, Liu, Zhen, Pu, Zhiqiang, Yi, Jianqiang, Liang, Yanyan, Du Zhang, "Robot Subgoal-guided Navigation in Dynamic Crowded Environments with Hierarchical Deep Reinforcement Learning," International Journal of Control, Automation and Systems [1598-6446], Published 2023, Volume 21, Issue 7, Pages 2350-2362.
Liu, AJ, Tan, ZC, Yu, ZT, Zhao, CX, Wan, J, Liang, YY, Lei, Z, Du Zhang, Li, SZ, Guo, GD, "FM-ViT: Flexible Modal Vision Transformers for Face Anti-Spoofing," IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security [1556-6013], Published 2023, Volume 18, Pages 4775-4786.
Xibin Sun, Du Zhang, Haiou Qin, and Jiahua Tang, "Bridging the Last-Mile Gap in Network Security via Generating Intrusion-Specific Detection Patterns through Machine Learning," Security and Communication Networks, Volume 2022.
Guiyu Xia, Peng Xue, Huaijiang Sun, Yubao Sun, Du Zhang, Qingshan Liu, "Local Self-Expression Subspace Learning Network for Motion Capture Data," IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. Vol.31, 2022, pp.4869-4883
Guiyu Xia, P. Xue, Du Zhang and Q. Liu, "Keyframe-Editable Real-time Motion Synthesis," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol.32, Issue 7, July 2022, pp.4538-4551.
Tang, JH, Du Zhang, Sun, XB, Qin, HO, "Improving Temporal Event Scheduling through STEP Perpetual Learning," Sustainability [2071-1050], Published 2022, Volume 14, Issue 23.
Ajian Liu, Chenxu Zhao, Zitong Yu, Jun Wan, Anyang Su, Xing Liu, Zichang Tan, Sergio Escalera, Junliang Xing, Yanyan Liang, Guodong Guo, Zhen Lei, Stan Li, and Du Zhang, "Contrastive Context- Aware Learning for 3D High-Fidelity Mask Face Presentation Attack Detection," Vol. 17, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security. Volume 17, 2022, pp.2497-2507.
Li, MP, Xie, XM, Du Zhang, "Improved Deep Learning Model based on Self-Paced Learning for Multiscale Short-Term Electricity Load Forecasting," Sustainability [2071-1050], Published 2022, Volume 14, Issue 1.
Guiyu Xia, Furong Ma, Qingshan Liu, and Du Zhang, "Pose-Driven Realistic 2-D Motion Synthesis,"
IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, Vol.53, Issue 4, 2021, pp.2412-2425.
Guiyu Xia, P. Xue, Du Zhang and Q. Liu, "Likelihood-Constrained Coupled Space Learning for Motion Synthesis,” Information Sciences, Vol.579, November 2021, pp.72-88.
Jinxiang Zeng, Du Zhang, Zhiyi Li, and Xiaolin Li, "Semi-supervised Training of Transformer and Causal Dilated Convolution Network with Applications to Topic Classification," Applied Sciences, Vol.11, 5712, 2021.
Zhiyi Li, Xiaomian Xu, Du Zhang and Peng Zhang, "Cross-Model Hashing Retrieval based on Deep Residual Network," Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.36, No.2, 2021, pp.383-405.
Xie, XM, Li, MP, Du Zhang, "A Multiscale Electricity Price Forecasting Model based on Tensor Fusion and Deep Learning," Energies [1996-1073], Published 2021, Volume 14, Issue 21.
H. Qin and Du Zhang, "A Perpetual Learning Algorithm that Incrementally Improves Performance with Deliberation," IEEE Access, Vol. 8, 2020, pp.131425-131438.
H. Qin, Du Zhang, X. Sun, J. Tang and J. Peng, "An Efficient Perpetual Learning Algorithm,"
International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools, Vol. 28, No. 7, 2019, pp.1950022-1 – 1950022-23.
É. Grégoire, Y. Izza, and Du Zhang, "On admissible consensuses," International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools, Vol.27, No.1, 2018, pp.1-20.
É. Grégoire, J-M. Lagniez, and Du Zhang, "Consensus-finding that preserves mutually conflicting hypothetical information from a same agent," AI Communications, Vol.31, No.3, 2018, pp.303-317.
K.B. Zhang, M.A. Orgun, R. Shankaran, and Du Zhang, "Classifying High Dimensional Data by Interactive Visual Analysis," Journal of Visual Languages and Computing, Vol.33, April 2016, pp.24-36.
Du Zhang, "Granularities and Inconsistencies in Big Data Analysis," International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, Vol.23, No.6, 2013, pp.887-893.
Du Zhang and É. Grégoire, "The Landscape of Inconsistency: A Perspective," International Journal of Semantic Computing, Vol. 5, No. 3, September 2011, pp.235-256.
É. Grégoire and Du Zhang, "A Framework for Handling Logical Inconsistencies in the Fusion of Boolean Knowledge Bases," International Journal of Semantic Computing, Vol. 5, No. 3, September 2011, pp.323- 334.
Yingxu Wang, Witold Kinsner and Du Zhang, "Cybernetics and Cognitive Informatics," IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part B, Vol. 39, No. 4, August 2009, pp.818-822.
Yingxu Wang, Witold Kinsner and Du Zhang, "Contemporary Cybernetics and Its Facets of Cognitive Informatics and Computational Intelligence," IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part B, Vol. 39, No. 4, August 2009, pp.823-833.
H. Wei, J. Alves-Foss, T. Soule, H. Pforsich, Du Zhang and D. Frincke, "A Layered Decision Model for the Design of Cost-Effective Network Defense," International Journal of Information and Computer Security, Vol. 2, No. 3, 2008, pp.308-335.
A. Davis and Du Zhang, "A Comparative Study of SOAP and DCOM," Journal of Systems and Software,
Vol. 76, No. 2, 2005, pp.157-169.
E. Liu and Du Zhang, "Diagnosis of Component Failures in the Space Shuttle Main Engines Using Bayesian Belief Networks: A Feasibility Study," International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools, Vol. 12, No. 3, Sept. 2003, pp. 355-374.
Du Zhang and J. Tsai, "Machine Learning and Software Engineering," Software Quality Journal Vol.11, Issue 2, June 2003, pp.87-119.
Du Zhang and Luqi, "Approximate Declarative Semantics for Rule Base Anomalies," Knowledge-Based Systems, Vol.12, No.7, November 1999, pp.341-353.
Du Zhang, V. Lee, J. Friedel and R. Keyser "ANDES: An Antenna Diagnostic Expert System," Expert Systems with Applications, Vol.17, No.4, November 1999, pp.327-352.
W.T. Tsai, R. Vishnuvajjala and Du Zhang, "Verification and Validation of Knowledge-Based Systems," IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol.11, No.1, January/February 1999, pp.202- 212.
J.A. Goguen, D. Nguyen, J. Meseguer, Luqi, Du Zhang and V. Berzins "Software Component Search,"
Journal of System Integration, Vol.6, No.1-2, March 1996, pp. 93-134.
Du Zhang and D. Nguyen "PREPARE: A Tool for Knowledge Base Verification," IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol.6, No.6, December 1994, pp.983-989.
M. Lu, Du Zhang and T. Murata, "Analysis of Self-Stabilizing Clock Synchronization by Means of Stochastic Petri Nets," IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol.39, No.5, May 1990, pp.597-604.
M. Lu, Du Zhang and T. Murata, "A Design Approach for Self-Diagnosis of Fault-Tolerant Clock Synchronization," IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol.38, No.9, September 1989, pp.1337-1341.
T. Murata and Du Zhang, "A Predicate-Transition Net Model for Parallel Interpretation of Logic Programs," IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol.14, No.4, April 1988, pp.481-497.
Selected Conference Papers
Qiang, Sunyuan, Xiong, Zhu, Liang, Yanyan, Wan, Jun, Du Zhang, "Adapt and Refine: A Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learner via Pre-Trained Models," Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision (PRCV 2024), pp.431-444. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 15031. Springer, Singapore.
Wang, SJ, Pan, Y, Pu, ZQ, Yi, JQ, Liang, YY, Du Zhang, "Heterogeneous-graph Attention Reinforcement Learning for Football Marches," 2023 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, IJCNN [2161- 4393], Published 2023, Volume 2023-June.
Qiang, Sunyuan, Hou, Jiayi, Wan, Jun, Liang, Yanyan, Lei, Zhen, Du Zhang, "Mixture Uniform Distribution Modeling and Asymmetric Mix Distillation for Class Incremental Learning," Proceedings of the 37th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2023[2159-5399], Published 2023, Volume 37, Pages 9498-9506.
Liu, Boyin, Pu, Zhiqiang, Pan, Yi, Yi, Jianqiang, Liang, Yanyan, Du Zhang, "Lazy Agents: A New Perspective on Solving Sparse Reward Problem in Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning," Proceedings of Machine Learning Research [2640-3498], Published 2023, Volume 202, Pages 21404-21425.
Zhou, BJ, Chen, ZG, Clapés, A, Wan, J, Liang, YY, Escalera, S, Lei, Z, Du Zhang, "Gloss-free Sign Language Translation: Improving from Visual-Language Pretraining," 2023 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2023) [1550-5499], Published 2023, Pages 20814-20824.
Zhou, BJ, Wang, PC, Wan, J, Liang, YY, Wang, F, Du Zhang, Lei, Z, Li, H, Jin, R, "Decoupling and Recoupling Spatiotemporal Representation for RGB-based Motion Recognition," 2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2022) [1063-6919], Published 2022, Volume 2022-June, Pages 20122-20131.
Jun Peng, Wu Yang, Shangzhu Jin, Shaoning Pang, Dedong Tang, Junjie Bai and Du Zhang, "Image Encryption based on Fractional-order Chen Hyperchaotic System," the Proceedings of the Fifteenth IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics & Applications, Kristiansand, Norway, November 2020, pp.213-217.
Yingxu Wang, Kostas N. Plataniotis, Jane Z. Wang, Ming Hou, Mengchu Zhou, Newton Howard, Jun Peng, Runhe Hwang, Shushma Patel and Du Zhang, "The Cognitive and Mathematical Foundations of Analytic Epidemiology," the Proceedings of the Nineteenth IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics & Cognitive Computing, Beijing, China, Sept. 26-28, 2020, pp.6-14 (Best Paper Award).
Jun Peng, Shaoning Pang, Du Zhang, Shangzhu Jin, Lixiao Feng and Zuojin Li, "S-boxes Construction Based on Quantum Chaos and PWLCM Chaotic Mapping," the Proceedings of the Eighteenth IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics & Cognitive Computing, Milan, Italy, July 2019, pp.293-298.
Du Zhang, "From One-off Machine Learning to Perpetual Learning: A STEP Perspective," the Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Miyazaki, Japan, October 2018, pp. 17-23.
J.H. Tang and Du Zhang, "SmartCalendar: Improving Scheduling through Overcoming Temporal Inconsistencies," the Proceedings of the Seventeenth IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics & Cognitive Computing, Berkeley, CA, USA, July 2018, pp. 30-37.
X.B. Sun, Du Zhang, M. Liu, Z. He, H. Li and J. Li, "Detecting and Resolving Inconsistencies in Snort," the Proceedings of the Seventeenth IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics & Cognitive Computing, Berkeley, CA, USA, July 2018, pp. 552-560.
Du Zhang and É. Grégoire, "Learning through Overcoming Inconsistencies," the 1st International Workshop on Consistency and Inconsistency, the Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2016), IEEE Computer Society CPS, Porto, Portugal, Sept., 2016, pp. 121-128.
É. Grégoire, Jean-Marie Lagniez and Du Zhang, "On Computing Non-Hypocritical Consensuses," the 1st International Workshop on Consistency and Inconsistency, the Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2016), IEEE Computer Society CPS, Porto, Portugal, Sept., 2016, pp. 97-101.
É. Grégoire, Jean-Marie Lagniez and Du Zhang, "Logical Consensuses for Case-based Reasoning and for Mathematical Engineering of AI," the Proceedings of the Fifteenth IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics & Cognitive Computing, Stanford, USA, August 2016, pp. 29-33.
Du Zhang, "Learning through Overcoming Temporal Inconsistencies," the Proceedings of the Fourteenth
IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics & Cognitive Computing, Beijing, China, July 2015, pp. 141-148.
Jose Andres Bolaños Perera, Du Zhang and Meiliu Lu, "Smart Maps through Semantic Web, Social Media and Sentiment Analysis," the Proceedings of the Sixteenth IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration, San Francisco Bay, CA, August 2015, pp. 49-56.
T. Le and Du Zhang, "DBLPMiner: A Tool for Exploring Bibliographic Data," the Proceedings of the Sixteenth IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration, San Francisco Bay, CA, August 2015, pp. 435-442.
Kathy Applebaum and Du Zhang, "Classifying Galaxy Images through Support Vector Machines," the Proceedings of the Sixteenth IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration, San Francisco Bay, CA, August 2015, pp. 357-363.
Du Zhang, "Learning through Explaining Observed Inconsistencies," the Proceedings of the Thirteenth IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics & Cognitive Computing, London, UK, August, 2014, pp.133-139.
Y. Zhang and Du Zhang, "Automatically Predicting the Helpfulness of Online Reviews," the Proceedings of the Fifteenth IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration, San Francisco Bay, CA, August 2014, pp.662-668.
Du Zhang, L. Jujjavarapu, and M. Lu "Detecting and Resolving Inconsistencies in Firewalls," the Proceedings of the Fifteenth IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration, San Francisco Bay, CA, August 2014, pp.1-7.
Du Zhang, "Perpetual Learning through Overcoming Inconsistencies," the Proceedings of the Twenty- fifth IEEE International Conference on Tools with AI, Washington DC, November, 2013, pp.872-879.
Du Zhang, "Learning through Overcoming Incompatible and Anti-subsumption Inconsistencies," the Proceedings of the Twelfth IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics & Cognitive Computing, New York City, NY, July, 2013, pp.137-142.
Du Zhang, "Inconsistencies in Big Data," the Proceedings of the Twelfth IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics & Cognitive Computing, New York City, NY, July, 2013, pp.61-67.
R. Carreras and Du Zhang, "A Machine Learning Based File Archival Tool," Proceedings of 25th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, June 2013, pp.73-76.
S. R. Pedditi, Du Zhang and C. Wang, "FIEP: An Initial Design of Firewall Information Exchange Protocol," the Proceedings of the Fourteenth IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration, San Francisco Bay, CA, August 2013, pp.1-5.
K.B. Zhang, M. Orgun, R. Shankaran, and Du Zhang, "Interactive Visual Classification of Multivariate Data," the Proceedings of the Eleventh IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications, December 2012, pp.246-251.
K.B. Zhang, M. Orgun, R. Shankaran, and Du Zhang, "A Visual Approach for Classification Based on Data Projection," the Proceedings of the Twelfth Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI), Kuching, Malaysia, September, 2012, pp.850-856.
Du Zhang and M. Lu, "Learning through Overcoming Inheritance Inconsistencies," the Proceedings of the Thirteenth IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration, Las Vegas, NV, August 2012, pp.201-206.
Du Zhang, "i2Learning: Perpetual Learning through Bias Shifting," the Proceedings of the Twenty-fourth International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, July 2012, pp. 249-255 (First Place Award as the outstanding paper).
Du Zhang, "From Bounded Rationality to Bounded Social Rationality," the Proceedings of the Eleventh IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics & Cognitive Computing, Kyoto, Japan, August 2012.
Du Zhang and M. Orgun, "BRINK: A Theory on Bounded Rationality and Inconsistent Knowledge," the Proceedings of the Eleventh IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics & Cognitive Computing, Kyoto, Japan, August 2012, pp. 18-26.
B. Bell, B. Wallace, and Du Zhang, "Forecasting River Runoff through Support Vector Machines," the Proceedings of the Eleventh IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics, Kyoto, Japan, August 2012, pp. 58-64.
Du Zhang, "Inconsistency in Multi-Agent Systems," in Foundations of Intelligent Systems, Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing Vol. 122 (AISC 122), Y. Wang and T. Li (eds.) Springer-Verlag (the Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Knowledge Engineering, Shanghai, China, December 15-17, 2011), pp.401-412.
Du Zhang, "Inconsistency-Induced Heuristics for Problem Solving," the Proceedings of the Twenty Third International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, Miami FL, July 2011, pp.137-142.
Du Zhang and M. Lu, "Inconsistency-Induced Learning: A Step Toward Perpetual Learners," the Proceedings of the Tenth IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics, Banff, Canada, August 2011, pp.59-66.
Du Zhang, "Bounded Rationality and Inconsistency," the Proceedings of the Tenth IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics, Banff, Canada, August 2011, pp.17-22.
J. Peng, Du Zhang, and X. Liao, "A Method for Designing Dynamical S-boxes Based on Hyperchaotic Lorenz System," the Proceedings of the Tenth IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics, Banff, Canada, August 2011, pp.304-309.
R. Malpani, M. Lu, Du Zhang, and W. K. Sung, "Mining Transcriptional Association Rules from Breast Cancer Profile Data," the Proceedings of the Twelfth IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration, Las Vegas, NV, August 2011, pp.154-159.
Selected Books
Du Zhang and J.J.P. Tsai, Machine Learning Applications in Software Engineering, World Scientific Publishing, February 2005, ISBN: 981-256-094-7.
Du Zhang and J.J.P. Tsai, Advances in Machine Learning Applications in Software Engineering, Idea
Group Inc., 2007, ISBN: 1-59140-941-1.
Y. Wang, Du Zhang and W. Kinsner (ed.), Advances in Cognitive Informatics, SCI 323, Springer, 2010, ISBN: 978-3-642-16082-0.
M. Reformat, Du Zhang, and N. Bourbakis (ed.), Proceedings of the 34th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, IEEE Computer Society, 2022, ISBN-13: 979-8-3503-9744-4.
D.F. Hsu, Y. Wang, A.R. Rao, Du Zhang, W. Kinsner, W. Pedrycz, R.C. Berwick and L.A. Zadeh (ed.), Proceedings of the 12th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics & Cognitive Computing, IEEE Computer Society Press, 2013, ISBN: 978-1-4799-0781-6.
Du Zhang (ed.), Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, Knowledge Systems Institute, 2012, ISBN: 1-891706-31-4.
Du Zhang, T. Khoshgoftaar and J. Joshi (ed.), Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration, IEEE SMC, 2006, ISBN: 0-7803-9788-6.
Du Zhang, E. Gregoire and D. DeGroot (ed.), Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration, IEEE SMC, 2004, ISBN: 0-7803-8819-4.
Du Zhang (ed.), Proceedings of the 15th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, IEEE Computer Society Press, 2003, ISBN 0-7695-2038-3 (651 pages).
Grants (past ten years)
Research
PI: STEP Perpetual Learning based Collective Intelligence: Theories and Methodologies (0025/2019/AKP). This project was funded as one of the inaugural batch of projects under the Funding Scheme for Key R&D Projects by the Science and Technology Development Fund of Macau SAR (FDCT). 6 million MOP.
PI: Face Structure Analysis based on Spatio-temporal Information Mining in Videos (0010/2019/AFJ). This project was under the joint funding scheme by FDCT and NFSC. 2.12 million MOP.
PI: Perpetual Learning through Overcoming Inconsistencies (FDCT, 045/2016/A2). 1.55 million MOP.
PI: FDCT Post-Doc grant for supervising Xia Guiyu (0002/2019/APD). 1.08 million MOP.
Co-PI: Building Incrementally Improved General Visual Models for AutoML: a STEP Perpetual Refinement Approach (0070/2020/AMJ). This project was under the joint funding scheme by FDCT and MOST. 1.5 million MOP.
Equipment
Nvidia DGX-1/DGX-2 (FDCT, 0002/2019/ASE). 4.43 million MOP.
GPU platform (GAES). 556,000 MOP.
Faculty cloud system (GAES). 819,000 MOP.
Intelligent robotics (DSES). 521,000 MOP.
Awards and Honors
Top Scholars by Expertise (top 0.5% of all scholars, lifetime), ScholarGPS:
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Best Paper Award for "The Cognitive and Mathematical Foundations of Analytic Epidemiology" at the 19th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics and Cognitive Computing (ICCI*CC’20), Beijing, China, September, 2020 (with nine collaborators).
Best Paper Award for "Inconsistency-Induced Learning: A Step Toward Perpetual Learners" at the 10th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics, Banff, Canada, August, 2011 (with M. Lu).
First Place Award as the outstanding paper for "i2Learning: Perpetual Learning through Bias Shifting" at the Twenty-fourth International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, Redwood City, California, July, 2012 (sole author).
Best Poster Award for "Text Disambiguation Using Support Vector Machine: An Initial Study," at the Eleventh Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Daegu, Korea, August 30- September 2, 2010 (with D. Nguyen).
Service, leadership or outstanding contribution awards from the following international conferences: IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI 2004); IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics (later changed to Cognitive Informatics and Cognitive Computing: 2005, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2018); IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IRI 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008,2009, 2010,2012, 2013, 2014); International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE 2012).
Marquis Who’s Who in Science and Engineering, 11th Edition, 2011.
Marquis Who’s Who in America, 65th Edition, 2011.
Marquis Who’s Who in the West, 38th Edition, 2011.
Marquis Who’s Who in America, 64th Edition, 2010.
Marquis Who’s Who in the West, 37th Edition, 2010.
Marquis Who’s Who in the World, 26th Edition, 2009.
Marquis Who’s Who in America, 63rd Edition, 2009.
Marquis Who’s Who in America, 61st Edition, 2007.
Who’s Who in Engineering Education, 2002.
Outstanding Scholar Award, College of Engineering and Computer Science, California State University, Sacramento (2011, 2004, 1998). Meritorious Performance and Professional Promise Award, California State University, Sacramento (1989).
Visiting Professor, Southeast University, Nanjing, China (Aug. 1999).
Student Leadership Recognition Award, University of Illinois Alumni Association (1987).
Sabbatical leave at University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Naval Postgraduate School, and Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Research Fellow at Department of Computing, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK.
Invited talks at King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, Bangkok, Thailand; The Research and Advanced Studies Centre of the National Polytechnic Institute, CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico City, Mexico; Czech Technical University in Prague; Nanjing University; Fudan University; Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications; University of Electronic Science and Technology of China in Chengdu; Shanghai University of Finance and Economics; and Chongqing University of Science and Technology.
Professional Society Membership
Senior member, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
Senior Member, IEEE (IEEE Computer Society).
Member, China Computer Federation.
Member of Upsilon Pi Epsilon, International Honor Society for the Computing and Information Disciplines.
Member of Phi Beta Delta, Honor Society for International Scholars.