Cheng Xiang Zhai

ChengXiang Zhai is a computer scientist. He is a professor and Willett Faculty Scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.[1] He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Nanjing University in 1990, and a Ph.D. in Language and Information Technologies from Carnegie Mellon University in 2002.[2] Zhai was named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery in 2017 "for contributions to information retrieval and text data mining".[3]

ChengXiang Zhai
Alma materNanjing University
Carnegie Mellon University
Scientific career
FieldsInformation Retrieval
Text Mining
Natural Language Processing
Machine Learning
Bioinformatics
InstitutionsUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
ThesisRisk Minimization and Language Modeling in Text Retrieval
Doctoral advisorJohn D. Lafferty
Websiteczhai.cs.illinois.edu

References
  1. "ChengXiang ("Cheng") Zhai".
  2. http://sifaka.cs.uiuc.edu/czhai/bio.html
  3. "ACM Recognizes 2017 Fellows for Making Transformative Contributions and Advancing Technology in the Digital Age". Association for Computing Machinery. December 11, 2017. Retrieved 2018-10-17.


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