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Haiyang Zhang

Assistant Professor

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20162025

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Dr. Haiyang Zhang is a Lecturer at the Department of Computing, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University. She obtained her Ph.D from University of Limerick in 2018, specialising in Recommender Systems. After that, she worked as a research associate in the University of Sheffield, from 2018 to 2021.Her current research interest centre around Natural Language Processing (NLP), in particular on applications for analysing biomedical document collections, and on detecting bias in word embeddings. She is also interested in research related to recommender systems, exploiting various kinds information that within or goes beyond the user-item rating matrix, to address the data sparsity and cold-start problems in collaborative filtering approaches.Her publications can be found via Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=2OK7sDsAAAAJhl=en

Research interests

Positive and Unlabelled(PU) learning 

Natural Language Processing

Recommender Systems

cross-modal information retrieval

Experience

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

Research Associate, The University of Sheffield, 2018-2021

Teaching

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

 

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 1 - No Poverty
  • SDG 2 - Zero Hunger
  • SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
  • SDG 4 - Quality Education
  • SDG 9 - Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
  • SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities

Education/Academic qualification

Ph.D, University of Limerick, 2013-2018

B.Eng., Jilin University, 2009-2013

Person Types

  • Staff

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