His research interest includes NLP, knowledge graph, information retrieval and recommender systems
Dr. Zhang has published many top-tier international conference papers and journal articles in his research area, such as KDD, WWW, AAAI, and IJCAI. He has received the best paper award in ICDM2013 and CIKM2020. Dr. Zhang is also active in academic activities. For example, he served as the industry chair in ASONAM2018 and has long served as the reviewers on top-tier international conferences and journals, such as KDD, WWW, and TKDE.