I am currently working in Twitter as a data scientist. Before Twitter, I worked in Amazon as an Applied Scientist in Search and Alexa. Prior to Amazon, I had been an Associate Research Scientist in the Laboratory for the Modeling Biological and Socio-technical Systems (MoBS), and part-time Faculty in Network Science Institute at Northeastern University, Boston, MA, from May 2014 to February 2019. My research broadly covers data-driven modeling and forecasting of human dynamics, including epidemics/pandemics, social phenomena (such as information propagation and knowledge diffusion), online search behaviors, with complex network, data mining and machine learning approaches.
I received Bachelor degrees in Computer Science and English from Taiyuan University of Technology, Shanxi, China in July 2004. From 2004 to 2006, I was a PhD student in School of Automation Science and Electrical Engineering, Beihang University (BUAA), Beijing, China, and worked on pattern recognition, robotics and computer vision. In January 2007, I moved to Canada to start research on public health modeling in Department of Computer Science, University of Saskatchewan, where I received her Master of Science in Computer Science in December 2008 with the thesis “Application and Evaluation of Local and Global Analysis for Dynamic Models of Infectious Disease Spread”. After that, I started my PhD student life in the School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University in January 2009. In September 2011, I transferred to Northeastern University to continue the PhD program with Prof. Vespignani. In May 2014, I finally got my PhD in Computer Science from Northeastern University with the dissertation titled "Contagion and ranking processes in complex networks: the role of geography and interaction strength".
My Erdős Number is 3: Qian Zhang → Alessandro Vespignani → Fan Chung Graham → Paul Erdős
I received Bachelor degrees in Computer Science and English from Taiyuan University of Technology, Shanxi, China in July 2004. From 2004 to 2006, I was a PhD student in School of Automation Science and Electrical Engineering, Beihang University (BUAA), Beijing, China, and worked on pattern recognition, robotics and computer vision. In January 2007, I moved to Canada to start research on public health modeling in Department of Computer Science, University of Saskatchewan, where I received her Master of Science in Computer Science in December 2008 with the thesis “Application and Evaluation of Local and Global Analysis for Dynamic Models of Infectious Disease Spread”. After that, I started my PhD student life in the School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University in January 2009. In September 2011, I transferred to Northeastern University to continue the PhD program with Prof. Vespignani. In May 2014, I finally got my PhD in Computer Science from Northeastern University with the dissertation titled "Contagion and ranking processes in complex networks: the role of geography and interaction strength".
My Erdős Number is 3: Qian Zhang → Alessandro Vespignani → Fan Chung Graham → Paul Erdős
