¡¡ Duo Zhang

Ph.D. Candidate

Department of Computer Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Office: 1125 Siebel Center for Computer Science
            201 N. Goodwin Ave.
            Urbana, IL 61801
Email: dzhang22 AT uiuc DOT edu



I am a Ph.D student with University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. My advisor is Prof. ChengXiang Zhai.

Before coming to UIUC, I got both my bachelor degree (2005) and master degree (2007) from Department of Computer Science, Tsinghua University.


Research Interests

My research interests include Text Mining, Information Retrieval, Data Mining, Machine Learning, and Natural Language Processing.


Selected Publications  
  • Qiaozhu Mei, Duo Zhang, ChengXiang Zhai. General Optimization Framework for Smoothing Language Models on Graph Structures, Proceedings of the 31th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR '2008). To appear.

  • Qiaozhu Mei, Deng Cai, Duo Zhang, ChengXiang Zhai. Topic Modeling with Network Regularization, Proceedings of the 17th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW'2008).

  • Duo Zhang, Jie Tang, Juanzi Li, and Kehong Wang. A Constraint-Based Probabilistic Framework for Name Disambiguation. In Proceedings of the Sixteenth Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, pp. 1019-1022 (CIKM¡¯2007).

  • Jie Tang, Duo Zhang, and Limin Yao. Social Network Extraction of Academic Researchers. In Proceedings of 2007 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, pp. 292-301(ICDM¡¯2007).


Conference List

Here is a conference list for 2008~2009


Last Updated: 09/2008