Yi Zhang is an Assistant Professor at University of California Santa Cruz. Her research interests include information retrieval, text mining, statistical machine learning, and natural language processing. She has collaborated with start-ups, large corporations and government agencies on related topics. Dr. Zhang received her Ph.D. and M.S. from Carnegie Mellon University. She is working with SSRC on the Distributed Metadata Management project, focusing on how to use rich key-value metadata to allow users to interactively navigate and search distributed file systems.

Publications

2008

• Jonathan Koren, Yi Zhang, Xue Liu, Personalized Interactive Faceted Search, Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on the World Wide Web (WWW 2008), April 2008. [Distributed Metadata Management]

2007

• Jonathan Koren, Yi Zhang, Sasha Ames, Andrew Leung, Carlos Maltzahn, Ethan L. Miller, Searching and Navigating Petabyte Scale File Systems Based on Facets, Proceedings of the 2007 ACM Petascale Data Storage Workshop (PDSW 07), November 2007. [Distributed Metadata Management]
• Yi Zhang, Jonathan Koren, Efficient Bayesian Hierarchical User Modeling for Recommendation Systems, Proceedings of the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR '07), July 2007, pages 47-54. [Distributed Metadata Management]