Ph.D. Student
Department of Information Science
College of Information
xiaoyu.zhang@unt.edu
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Curriculum Vitae | Resume

About me

My name is Xiaoyu Zhang, and I also go by Monica. I am originally from Shenzhen, China. I am a first year doctoral student in Department of Information Science (Data Science) at University of North Texas.

Education

  • Master's in Information Science (University of North Texas, 2018)
  • Bachelor's in Journalism (The University of Texas at Austin, 2013)

Research Interests

My research interests are in the areas of interested in Data Science, Information Retrieval and Data Mining including natural language processing, data visualization, data analytics, electronic discovery in legal cases, and health information retrieval. I have been working as a Research Assistant at Dr.Jiangping Chen's IIA lab since August 2017, which focuses on intelligent information access and its application in various areas related to digital libraries, knowledge management, health informatics, multilingual information access and other related areas.

Recent Publications and Presentations

  • Chen, J.，Alsmadi, D., Zhang, X., Xie, Z. An Investigation of Cyberinfrastructure Adoption in University Libraries. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. iConference 2018

Research Experience

  • JCDL 2018, Volunteer
  • ICKM 2017, Volunteer
  • Research Assistant at Intelligent Information Access Laboratory
  • COA Program Coordinator, College of Information
  • Contribute to Library Cyberinfrastructure (LCI) project
  • Contribute to Multilingual Information Access (MLIA) project
  • Participate to Journal Club co-host by Virginia Tech and UNT

Full-time Industry Experience

  • Business Systems Analyst at Wells Fargo
  • Production Artist at Apple