ChengXiang ("Cheng") Zhai ( Short Biography) Donald Biggar Willett Professor in Engineering Department of Computer Science (Also affiliated with Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, Statistics , School of Information Sciences , and Personalized Nutrition Initiative) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 201 N. Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL 61801 Office: 2116 Siebel Center (directions) Phone: +1-217-244-4943 Fax: +1-217-265-6494 Email: czhai AT illinois DOT edu Assistant: Salome Liebenberg (salomel AT illinois DOT edu, +1-217-300-6487, 4301 SC)

Publications & Selected Talks (Google Scholar Profile, DBLP Profile)

Selected Honors and Awards

• ACM SIGIR Gerard Salton Award (2021)
• ACM SIGIR Academy (2021); ACM Fellow (2017); ACM Distinguished Scientist (2009)
• Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) (2004, Nominated by NSF based on NSF Career Award)
• Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship Award (2008)
• ACM SIGIR Test of Time Paper Award (three times, for work on Subtopic Retrieval and Diversity in IR (SIGIR 2003 paper), Smoothing Methods for IR (SIGIR 2002 paper), and Bayesian decision-theoretic framework for IR (SIGIR 2002 paper)).
• Rose Award for Teaching Excellence (2010, College of Engineering, UIUC)
• UIUC Campus Award for Excellence in Graduate Mentoring (2016)
• UIUC List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students ( Fall 2002, Spring 2005, Fall 2006, Spring 2009, Fall 2010, Fall 2011, Fall 2012, Fall 2014, Fall 2016, Spring 2018, Fall 2018)
• IBM Faculty Award (2009)
• HP Innovation Research Award (2011-2012)

Selected Services

• Editor (Americas)}, Information Retrieval Book Series, Springer (June 2014- present); Associate Editor, BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making (March 2016 - present); Associate Editor, ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (Oct. 2017-). Previously, Associate Editor, ACM Transactions on Information Systems (2006-2014), Information Processing and Management (2010-2016); Editorial Board, Information Retrieval
• Program Co-Chair: WWW 2015, ACM SIGIR 2009, NAACL HLT 2007, ACM CIKM 2004
• Conference Co-Chair: ACM WSDM 2018, ACM CIKM 2016

Teaching

• CS510 Advanced Information Retrieval ( Spring 2021)
  
• CS410DSO Text Information Systems (Fall 2020)
  
• CS510 Advanced Topics in Information Retrieval (Fall 2019)
  
• CS410 Introduction to Text Information Systems (Online) (Fall 2019)
  
• CS591TXT Text Mining Seminar (Fall 2019)
  
• CS410 Introduction to Text Information Systems ( Spring 2019)
  
• CS591TXT Text Mining Seminar ( Spring 2019)
  
• CS410 Introduction to Text Information Systems ( Spring 2018)
  
• CS591TXT Text Mining Seminar ( Spring 2018)
  
• CS598DM Data Mining Capston (online course) ( Spring 2018)
• CS510 Advanced Topics in Information Retrieval ( Fall 2017)
  
• CS410 Introduction to Text Information Systems (Online) ( Fall 2017)
  
• CS410 Introduction to Text Information Systems ( Spring 2017)
  
• CS591TXT Text Mining Seminar ( Spring 2017)
  
• CS410 Introduction to Text Information Systems (Online) ( Fall 2016)
  
• CS598CXZ Advanced Topics in Information Retrieval ( Fall 2016)
  
• MOOC: Text Retrieval and Search Engines (part of data mining specialization on Coursera, 2015)
• MOOC: Text Mining and Analytics (part of data mining specialization on Coursera, 2015)
• List of courses taught before Fall 2015

Links

• DCS Advisors Handbook
• Merriam-Webster Online
• R& D Resources
• Postscript, PDF, and Word Viewers
• DL