Yong Zheng

Education

Ph.D., Computer and Information Science, DePaul University

Research Interests

HCI and Personalization: Recommender Systems, User Modeling, Affective Computing, Behavior Analytics

Web Intelligence: Social Media, Computational Advertising, Digital Marketing

Applications: Social Commerce, Shared Economy, Microfinance, Learning Analytics, MOOC, Tourism

Data Science: Data Mining and Machine Learning, Business Intelligence, Decision Science, Learning Science

Publications

"Context-aware Recommender Systems" with Bamshad Mobasher
In Book: Collaborative Recommendations: Algorithms, Practical Challenges and Applications, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., 2018 (To Appear)

"Indirect Context Suggestions"
Proceedings of the 25th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (ACM UMAP), Bratislava, Slovakia, July 2017

"Track on Recommender Systems: Theory and Applications" with Li Chen, Markus Zanker
ACM SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC’2017), April 3-7, 2017, Marrakech, Morocco

"Situation-Aware Multi-Criteria Recommender System: Using Criteria Preferences as Contexts"
The 32nd ACM SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (ACM SAC), Marrakech, Morocco, April 3-7, 2017

"Criteria Chains: A Novel Multi-Criteria Recommendation Approach"
The 22nd ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (ACM IUI), Limassol, Cyprus, March 13-16, 2017

"Context-awareness In Information Retrieval and Recommender Systems"
Proceedings of the 16th IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI’16), Omaha, USA, October 2016

"Adapt to Emotional Reactions In Context-aware Personalization"
Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Emotions and Personality in Personalized Systems (EMPIRE) held in conjunction with the 10th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (ACM RecSys), Boston, USA, September 15-19, 2016

"User-Oriented Context Suggestion" with Bamshad Mobasher, Robin Burke
Proceedings of the 24th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (ACM UMAP), pp. 249-258, Halifax, Canada, July 2016

"Context-Driven Mobile Apps Management and Recommendation"
Proceedings of the 31st ACM SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (ACM SAC), Pisa, Italy, April 2016

"Context In Recommender Systems"
Proceedings of the 31st ACM SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (ACM SAC), Pisa, Italy, April 2016

Yong Zheng, Aviana Pu. “Utility-Based Multi-Stakeholder Recommendations By Multi-Objective Optimization”, Proceedings of the 17th IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI’18), Santiago, Chile, December, 2018

Diego Sánchez-Moreno, Yong Zheng, and María N. Moreno-García. “Incorporating Time Dynamics and Implicit Feedbacks into Music Recommender Systems”, Proceedings of the 17th IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI’18), Santiago, Chile, December, 2018

Yong Zheng, Mengran Liu. “Predicting Political Trends By Social Tagging”, Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Information Technology Education (ACM SIGITE), Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA, October, 2018

Yong Zheng, Sridhar Srinivasan, Kim Taehun. “Exploratory Malware Analysis of Mobile Usages”, Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Information Technology Education (ACM SIGITE), Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA, October, 2018

Yong Zheng. “Personality-Aware Decision Making In Educational Learning“, Proceedings of the 23rd ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (ACM IUI), Tokyo, Japan, March 7-11, 2018

Community Service

"Publicity Co-Chair"
The 12th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys), Vancouver, Canada, October 2-7, 2018

"Publicity Co-Chair"
The 23rd ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI), Tokyo, Japan, March, 2018

"Workshop Co-Chair"
The 1st Workshop on Intelligent Recommender Systems by Knowledge Transfer & Learning (RecSysKTL), Como, Italy, August 27, 2017

"Workshop Co-Chair"
The International Workshop on Web Personalization and Social Media (WPSM), Leipzig, Germany, August 23, 2017

"Track Co-Chair"
Track on Recommender Systems, at AAAI International Conference by Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society (FLAIRS-30), May 22-24, 2017, Marco Island, Florida, USA

"Track Co-Chair and Session Chair"
Track on Recommender Systems: Theory and Applications, at ACM SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC’2017), Marrakech, Morocco, April 3-7, 2017,

"Workshop Co-Chair and Session Chair"
The 3rd International Workshop on Educational Recommender Systems (EdRecSys), held in conjunction with the IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI’2016), Omaha, USA, October 13, 2016

"Session Chair"
The 4th Workshop on Emotions and Personality in Personalized Systems (EMPIRE) held in conjunction with the 10th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys), Boston, USA, September 16, 2016

Additional Info

Experience

08/2018 – Present, Assistant Professor, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, USA

08/2016 – 08/2018, Senior Lecturer, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, USA

06/2015 – 11/2015, Data Scientist at Pandora Media, Inc., Oakland, USA