Dr. Jia Zhang is the Cruse C. and Marjorie F. Calahan Centennial Chair in Engineering, Professor of Department of Computer Science in the Lyle School of Engineering at Southern Methodist University. Her research interests emphasize the application of machine learning, natural language processing, information retrieval methods to tackle data science infrastructure problems, with a recent focus on scientific workflows, provenance mining, software discovery, knowledge graph, cloud computing, and interdisciplinary applications of all of these interests in the areas of earth science and healthcare. She has served as PI on grants worth over $5 Million (PI/Co-PI over $11M).

Dr. Zhang has co-authored one textbook "Services Computing" and has published over 240 refereed journal papers, book chapters, and conference papers (Google Scholar). Her research won two Best Paper awards at IEEE SCC (2011, 2017), three Best Student Paper awards at IEEE ICWS (2014, 2018) and IEEE ICCC (2018), and one Distinguished Paper award at ICSOC (2023). She also holds four US patents. Dr. Zhang has served as an associated editor of the IEEE TSC since 2008. In 2021 and 2022, she serves as Program Chair-in-Chief of IEEE World Congress of Services (CLOUD/EDGE/ICDH/ICWS/SCC/SMDS). She also served as Program Committee Chair for IEEE SCC (2020), ICWS (2019), CLOUD (2018), and BigData Congress (2017).

Dr. Zhang holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Prior to joining SMU, she was a faculty at Carnegie Mellon University - Silicon Valley, Northern Illinois University, and Nanjing University, and worked in industry as a software architect.

Her research has been sponsored by NSF, NASA, NIH, UTSW, Ericsson, SAP, and Google.

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