Dr. Haiyang Zhang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computing at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University. She holds a Bachelor’s degree from Jilin University and a Ph.D. from the University of Limerick, where she specialized in Recommender Systems with full scholarship. Following her doctoral studies, Dr. Zhang served as a Research Associate at the University of Sheffield from 2018 to 2021, where she further honed her expertise in data-driven research methodologies.

Dr. Zhang’s current research focuses on Natural Language Processing (NLP), with a particular emphasis on applications in biomedical document analysis and cross-modal information retrieval. To date, she has (co-)authored over 40 publications in prestigious conferences and journals. She served as program chair for industrial track WWW 2023 and ECAI 2024 and co-organised special sessions in ICVR 2023, IEEE INDIN 2024, and Asian MM 2024, etc. 

I am looking for strongly motivated PhD students and Research Assistants to join our research group. Contact me via: haiyang.zhang@xjtlu.edu.cn.

• Reasearch topics: Positive and Unlabeled learning/ Causal Inference
• Requirements:  Proficiency in data mining, machine learning and deep learning frameworks (tensorflow or pytorch) ; Good coding ability in Python.

Positive and Unlabelled (PU) learning 

Natural Language Processing

Recommender Systems

cross-modal information retrieval

Lecturer, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, 2021 - present

Research Associate, The University of Sheffield, 2018-2021

CPT103 Introduction to Databases 

CPT105 Introduction to Programming in Java

CPT203 Software Engineering

SAT306 Final Year Project

SAT405 MRes Final Year Project

SAT406 MSc Final Year Project