Background
Zhongfei (Mark) Zhang is a professor in the School of Computing at Binghamton University. He directs the Multimedia Research Laboratory at Binghamton.
He has a BS (cum laude) in electronics engineering, an MS in information science, both from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, and a PhD in computer science from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
While in the graduate school, he also worked as an Intern student at NEC Research Institute Inc. in Princeton, N.J., and as a technical consultant at Applied Artificial Intelligence Inc. (formerly Amerinex Artificial Intelligence Inc.) in Amherst, Mass.
He was a research scientist at the Center of Excellence for Document Analysis and Recognition and was on the faculty of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, both at SUNY Buffalo, before he joined the faculty at Binghamton.
He also holds many visiting positions, including a CNRS international chaired visiting professor at University of Lille 1 in France, a visiting research fellow at Microsoft Research, an NRC visiting fellow at U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, a Huang Kuancheng visiting fellow at Chinese Academy of Sciences in China, a JSPS fellow at Chuo University in Japan, a visiting faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University in the U.S., Zhejiang University and Nanjing University in China, and Academia Sinica in Taiwan.
He is the author of the very first monograph on multimedia data mining and is an co-author of the very first monograph on relational data clustering, both published by CRC Press. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed academic papers in premier international journals and conferences and several invited papers and book chapters in his areas, has edited or co-edited two books, in the inventor for more than 10 patents, has served as reviewers or program committee members or area chairs for many international journals and conferences, and has served as grant review panelists for several governmental and private funding agencies, including the NSF and NASA.
His research is supported by federal government agencies, noticeably including NSF, AFOSR and AFRL as well as industrial research labs such as Microsoft Research and Kodak Research.
He is a senior member of IEEE, a member of IEEE Computer Society and a member of ACM. He was invited to give keynotes or tutorials at premier international events in his areas. He is or was associate editors and guest editors for several international journals.
Education
- BS, MS, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
- PhD, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Research Interests
- Multimedia information indexing and retrieval
- Computer vision and image understanding
- Pattern recognition
- Medical imaging and bioinformatics
Awards
- Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities
