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Recommender Systems

Recommender systems typically produce a list of recommendations tailored to user preferences. They are utilized in a variety of areas including e-commerce, educations, movies, music, news, books, research articles, search queries, social tags, and products in general. Welcome to join the research on personalization and recommender systems.

Research Interests

His research interests lie in Data Science, FinTech, Personalizations, Recommender Systems, Human-Centric Computing, Technology-Enhanced Learning, and so forth. It could be related to the following topics:

General Areas: Data Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
Web & Learning Intelligence: Personalization, Recommender Systems, Learning Analytics, etc.
HCI and Users: User Modeling, Human-Centric Computing, Behavior Analysis, etc.
FinTech: AI in Finance, portfolio optimization, financial recommender systems, etc.

Honors, Grants & Awards

2023, Angela Jarka Service Award by the ITM department at IIT
2023, PI, Industry Grant (#230342) by Morningstar, Inc.
2023, CCCC Professional Equity Project Grant
2023, IEEE EDUCON Registration Waiver
2023, ACM IUI Registration Waiver
2023, PI, NSF Grant (#2309142) to support participations in ACM IUI (2023 - 2024)
2022, PI, ACM SIGAI Travel Fund for ACM IUI 2023
2022, PI, ACM SIGCHI Development Fund for ACM IUI 2023
2022, PI, ACM SIGCHI Development Fund for ACM UMAP 2023
2022, PI, AWS Cloud Credit Award for Research
2022, Honored as Data Science Ambassador by Digby's Detective & Security Agency, Inc.
2022, PI, ACM SIGCHI Development Fund for ACM UMAP 2022
2022, PI, Industry Grant (#220300) by Morningstar, Inc.
2022, PI, Google Cloud Credit Award for Research
2022, ACM RecSys Registration Waiver
2022, ACM UMAP Registration Waiver
2022, IEEE ICDM Registration Waiver
2021, Excellence in Research Award by College of Computing at Illinois Institute of Technology
2021, ACM RecSys Registration Waiver
2021, ACM SIGKDD Registration Waiver
2021, AWS Educate Credit
2021, PI, ACM SIGCHI Development Fund for ACM UMAP 2021
2020, ACM RecSys Registration Waiver
2020, PI, Industry Grant #20-0195 (delayed due to Covid-19)
2020, PI, NSF Grant (#2022227) to support students in ACM UMAP (2020 - 2023)
2019, ACM RecSys Registration Waiver
2019, ACM CIKM Registration Waiver
2018, PI, NSF Grant (#1830908) to support students in ACM UMAP (2018 - 2019)
2018, Honored as Distinguished reviewer by ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems
2017, Distinguished Student Supervisor Nominees, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, USA
2017, Honored as Distinguished reviewer by ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems
2016-2018, AWS Educate Credit
2015-2016, AWS Educate Student Credit
2014-2016, Being selected to participate in ACM Student Research Competition @ ACM SAC
2016, Travel Award: UMAP, SAC
2015, Being selected as a finalist in the ACM Student Research Competition at ACM SAC 2015
2015, Travel Award: ICDM, IUI, SAC, UMAP, DSS
2015, Best paper award at SOCRS, Chicago, USA
2015, Finalist at SRC@ACM SAC, Spain
2014, Travel Award: RecSys, SAC
2013, Travel Award: KDD, UMAP

Yong Zheng

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, Illinois, USA.
Email: yzheng66 [at] iit [dot] edu