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- Name：Weinan Zhang
- Title：Assistant Professor
- Office：307 Yifu Building
- Office Phone：
- Email：wnzhang [a.t.] sjtu.edu.cn
- Website：http://wnzhang.net
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Research Field
Data Science, Machine Learning
Education
Weinan earned his Ph.D. from University College London in 2016 and B.Eng. from ACM Class of Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2011.
Work experience
Assistant Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, from 2016-08 to now
Research
Weinan is now a tenure-track assistant professor in Department of Computer Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. His research interests include machine learning and big data mining, particularly, deep learning and reinforcement learning techniques for real-world data mining scenarios, such as computational advertising, recommender systems, text mining, web search and knowledge graphs.
Awards and Honors
Top 20 SIGKDD Rising Stars, Microsoft Research 2016
WSDM 2016 Student Travel Award 2016
SIGKDD 2015 Student Travel Award 2015
Champion in iPinYou Real-Time Bidding Algorithm Competition (Final Season) 2013
Faculty of Engineering Science Scholarship in UCL 2012-2016
Intel Scholarship 2011
IBM Scholarship 2011
Third place in KDD-Cup 2011: Yahoo! Music Recommendation (Track 1) 2011
Excellent Graduation Thesis, Shanghai Jiao Tong University 2011
Outstanding Graduate Student, Shanghai Jiao Tong University 2011
Excellent Assessment of Internship in Microsoft Research Asia 2011
Class B Scholarship, Shanghai Jiao Tong University 2008, 2009, 2010
Computer World Scholarship 2009
Champion Team Award in IBM College Programming Contest 2009
Teaching
CS420 Machine Learning (48 Class Hour) Zhiyuan College
Publications
Publication list: http://wnzhang.net
Google scholar: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Qzss0GEAAAAJ
Others
Homepage: http://wnzhang.net
