Dr. Haipeng Zhang is an assistant professor in School of Information Science and Technology at ShanghaiTech University, where he focuses on mining and modeling large-scale human behavioral data, to explore human’s investment, communication, mobility, and innovation patterns, for insights and implications in financial, political-economic, and scientific domains. He publishes in venues including WWW, WSDM, TKDD, CIKM, ICLR, and AAAI, and his work received media coverage from the New Scientist magazine and the Communications of the ACM website.
He received his PhD in Computer Science from Indiana University under the supervision of Prof. David J. Crandall in 2014, and his B.E. degree in Software Engineering from Nanjing University in 2009. He was an exchange student at HKUST in Fall 2007. From 2010 to 2013, he did research internships at National Institute of Informatics, eBay Research Labs, Microsoft Research Cambridge, and Samsung Research America. Before joining ShanghaiTech, he worked full-time at IBM Research and China Financial Futures Exchange on Data Science and Fintech, from 2014 to 2018.
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