data science (1579) personalization (365) decision making (206) assistant professor (32) decision science (24) recommender systems (21) recsys (5) user modeling (4) yong zheng illinois institute of technology
Dr. Yong Zheng is currently a tenure-track Assistant Professor at Department of Information Technology and Management , College of Computing , Illinois Institute of Technology , Chicago, USA, and he also served as the Director of the PhD Program in the ITM Department. He obtained his PhD degree in computer and information sciences from DePaul University in Chicago. Prior to IIT-Chicago, he worked with Dr. Bamshad Mobasher and Dr. Robin Burke on Recommender Systems and User Modeling. Dr. Zheng is the directo
08/2018 – Present, Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA 08/2016 – 08/2018, Senior Lecturer, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA 06/2015 – 11/2015, Data Scientist at Pandora Media, Inc., USA
2023 - 2024 11/2023, Call for PhD students: information about our PhD program , admission guidelines for domestic students and international students . The application deadline for the prospective PhD students starting in the upcoming Fall semester is Jan 31. Note that you need to mention me as your preferred PhD advisor in the application form and/or cover letter. 10/2023, I was invited to serve as a NSF Panelist for the Division of Information and Intelligent Systems at US NSF 10/2023, CFP: International