Yan (Michael) Zhang

Associate Professor

	Department of Machine Intelligence, Peking University, Beijing, 100871
	Office: 2318S Building Yifuyuan Phone: (8610) 6275-5592 E-mail: zhy AT cis DOT pku DOT edu DOT cn http://www.cis.pku.edu.cn/faculty/system/zhangyan/

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Dr. Yan Zhang joined the Center for Information Science (Also known as: Department of Machine Intelligence, or State Key Laboratory of Machine Perception) at Peking University in July 1995. He received his Ph.D in 2002 from Department of Computer Science and Technology at Peking University. His advisors were Prof. Shiwei Tang and Prof. Dongqing Yang.

Yan visited the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from August 2004 to August 2005, as a visiting scholar in the group supervised by Prof. Yuanyuan Zhou (Now at UCSD). Yan also visited the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong Kong from September 1996 to January 1997, in the group supervised by Prof. Irwin King. Yan would thank Prof. Zhou and Prof. King, from whom he learned so much.

Yan's research interests are in intelligent information retrieval, big data processing and web technologies. He is particularly interested in information discovery, integration and searching on the web.

Education

Ph.D., C omputer Science, Peking University, Beijing, China
Thesis: Data Freshness and Data Consistency in Web Repositories

2002

M.A., C omputer Science, Peking University, Beijing, China

1995

B.S., C omputer Science, Peking University, Beijing, China
B.S., Mathematics, Peking University, Beijing, China

1992

1992