Service - Dr. Yong Zheng

About the City of Chicago

Chicago, on Lake Michigan in Illinois, is well-known as "Windy City", and it is among the largest cities in the U.S. Famed for its bold architecture. Chicago is an international hub for finance, commerce, industry, technology, telecommunications, and transportation.

Illinois Institute of Technology

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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.

Academic Services

University Services

ITM Assessment Committee, 2022
Teaching Faculty Search Committee, 2022 - 2023
Strengthening Research Committee, College of Computing, 2021 - Present
Graduate Studies Committee, Illinois Institute of Technology, 2018 - 2021
ITM Chair Search Committee, 2021
Committee for Joint Statistics Course, 2020
Academic Grievance Committee member, 2016
ITM Curriculum Committee, 2016 - Present
ITM Faculty Committee, 2016 - Present

Conference Organizations

Sponsor Chair, ACM IUI, USA, Mar, 2024
Publicity Co-Chair, ACM RecSys, Singapore, Sep, 2023
Sponsor Chair, ACM UMAP, Cyprus, June, 2023
Sponsor Chair, ACM IUI, Australia, Mar, 2023
Program Chair, ACM SIGITE, USA, Sep, 2022
Proceedings Chair, ACM SIGITE, USA, Sep, 2022
Student Support Co-Chair, ACM Hypertext, Spain, July, 2022
Student Support Co-Chair, ACM UMAP, Spain, July, 2022
Student Support Co-Chair, ACM UMAP, Netherlands, June, 2021
Student Volunteer Co-Chair, ACM IUI, USA, April, 2021
Student Support Co-Chair, ACM UMAP, Italy, July, 2020
Student Support Co-Chair, ACM UMAP, Cyprus, June, 2019
Publicity Co-Chair, ACM IUI, USA, March, 2019
Student Support Co-Chair, ACM UMAP, Singapore, July, 2018
Publicity Co-Chair, ACM RecSys, Canada, Oct, 2018
Publicity Co-Chair, ACM IUI, Japan, March, 2018

Track | Workshop Organizations

Track Co-Chair, Track on Recommender Systems with Decision Making at the 23rd International Conference on Group Decision and Negotiation, 2023
Workshop Co-Chair, The 3rd Workshop on Personalization & Recommender Systems in Financial Services (FinRec) at ACM RecSys 2022
Track Co-Chair, Track on Recommender Systems at ACM SAC 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
Track Co-Chair, Track on Recommender Systems at AAAI FLAIRS 2018
Workshop Co-Chair, The 2nd Workshop on Intelligent Recommender Systems by Knowledge Transfer and Learning (RecSysKTL) at ACM RecSys 2018
Workshop Co-Chair, The 1st Workshop on Intelligent Recommender Systems by Knowledge Transfer and Learning (RecSysKTL) at ACM RecSys 2017
Workshop Co-Chair, The Workshop on Web Personalization & Social Media at IEEE/WIC/ACM WI 2017
Session Chair, IEEE/WIC/ACM Conference on Web Intelligence 2017
Track Co-Chair, Track on Recommender Systems at AAAI FLAIRS 2017
Workshop Co-Chair, The Workshop on Educational Recommender Systems at IEEE/WIC/ACM WI 2016
Session Chair, The Workshop on Emotions and Personality in Personalized Systems at ACM RecSys 2016

Program Committee Member (Selected)

International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI): 2022
International World Wide Web Conference (WWW): 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017
ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD): 2023, 2022, 2021
ACM Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM): 2023, 2022, 2021
ACM Conference on Information Retrieval (SIGIR): 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018
ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys): 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017
ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation & Personalization (UMAP): 2023, 2022, 2021, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015
ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI): 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016
ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC): 2014
ACM Conference on Human Information Interaction & Retrieval (CHIIR): 2017
ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE): 2022
ACM Global Computing Education Conference (CompEd): 2019
ACM Conference on Information Technology Education (SIGITE): 2018
European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD): 2023
SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM): 2023
European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR): 2018
International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM): 2018, 2017, 2014
Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD): 2018, 2017
International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies (EC-WEB): 2013

Grant Proposal Reviewer

2019, Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)
2016, US National Science Foundation (NSF)

Editorial Services

Editorial Board

2023 - Present, Associate Editor at Frontiers in Big Data (FIBD), Frontiers
2021 - 2023, Review Editor at Frontiers in Big Data (FIBD), Frontiers
2022 - Present, Editorial Board, Journal of Intelligent Information Systems (JIIS), Springer
2020 - Present, Editorial Board, International Journal of Entertainment Technology and Management (IJEntTM)

Journal Guest Editor

2023 - 2024, Lead Guest Editor, Special Issue on "Multi-Criteria/Multi-Objective Decision Making and Recommender Systems" at Applied Sciences, MDPI
2022 - 2023, Lead Guest Editor, Special Issue on "Information Technology Education" at Education and Information Technologies, Springer
2023, Guest Editor, Special Issue on "Challenges and New Opportunities in Next-Generation Recommender Systems" at Electronics, MDPI
2022, Guest Editor, Topic on "Rising Stars in Recommender Systems 2022" at Frontiers in Big Data, Frontiers
2022, Lead Guest Editor, Special Issue on "Affective Computing and Recommender Systems" at Applied Sciences, MDPI
2021 - 2022, Lead Guest Editor, Special Issue on "Advances in Recommender Systems" at Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, Springer

Invited Speakers & Panelist

Selected Speaker, at INFORMS Business Analytics Conference, Aurora, CO, USA, April 16-18, 2023
Invited Keynote Speaker, at the International Workshop on News Recommendation and Analytics (INRA) @ ACM SIGIR 2022, July 2022
Invited Panelist, at the International Workshop on News Recommendation and Analytics (INRA) @ ACM SIGIR 2022, July 2022
Invited Conference Speaker, at the 1st International Electronic Conference on Information (IECI 2021), December, 2021
Invited Keynote Speaker, at the International Workshop on Context-Aware Recommender Systems (CARS) @ ACM RecSys 2020, Sep, 2020
Invited Speaker, at Information Retrieval Group Seminars, School of Computing Science, The University of Glasgow, UK, July 7, 2017

Journal Reviewer

TOIS, ACM Transactions on Information Systems
TORS, ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems
TOIT, ACM Transactions on Internet Technology
TWeb, ACM Transactions on the Web
TMIS, ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems
TIST, ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology
TiiS, ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (distinguished reviewer)
TKDE, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
TLT, IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies
TCSS, IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems
TIFS, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security
TETC, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing
IEEE-IS, IEEE Intelligent Systems
UMUAI, User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction
InfoSci, Information Sciences, Elsevier
KBS, Knowledge-Based Systems
NC, Neurocomputing, Elsevier
IPM, Information Processing and Management
ASOC, Applied Soft Computing
AGNT, Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
WWWJ, World Wide Web: Internet and Web Information Systems
ECRA, Electronic Commerce Research and Applications
FGCS, Future Generation Computer Systems
JASIST, Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology
SIMPAT, Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory
IJITDM, International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making
Patterns@Cell.com
PMC, Pervasive and Mobile Computing
WIAS, Web Intelligence: An International Journal
JIIS, Journal of Intelligent Information Systems
JITT, Journal of Information Technology & Tourism
SLE, Smart Learning Environments
IJEntTM, International Journal of Entertainment Technology and Management
IJSNM, International Journal of Social Network Mining
JIIS, Journal of Internet and Information Systems
IxD&A, Interaction Design and Architecture (s) Journal
MDPI Journals: Applied Science, Information

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