Kunpeng (KZ) Zhang

Kunpeng Zhang 

Contact:

Van Munching Hall, 4316
7699 Mowatt Ln
College park, MD 20742

Tel: 301-405-0702 (☎)
Email: kpzhang AT umd DOT edu (✉)

Biography

I am currently a Research Collaborator at Meta (formerly Facebook),
an Associate Professor (with tenure) of Information Systems in the Robert H. Smith School of Business,
affiliated with MTI and AMSC at the University of Maryland, College park.
I am also an Emerging Fellow in AI and Business Research.

Before I joined the University of Maryland, I was an Assistant professor at University of Illinois, Chicago
for two years after receiving my PhD in Computer Science at Northwestern University. I was a co-faculty
champion of iTBT fellow program at Smith School.

My research focuses on developing machine/deep learning algorithms to analyze unstructured data for
better business decisions. Specifically, I am interested in representation learning + LLMs.

RA positions available for current UMD students (CS background) - please email me your CV if interested.

Recent Research Grants

Awards

Professional service

  • Associate Editor, INFORMS Journal on Computing, 2020 - present
  • Program Co-chair, WITS 2021
  • Associate Editor, ICIS
  • Session chair of Social Media Analytics at INFORMS 2015
  • Editorial Board Member, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence
  • Program Committee Member for vairous conferences

Referee

  • Conferences
  • Journals:
    Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS),
    Journal of Social Network Analysis and Mining,
    ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST),
    Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (DMKD),
    International Journal of Multimedia Information Retrieval,
    Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS),
    PLOS One,
    IEEE Journal - Sensors,
    IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE),
    IEEE Intelligent Systems,
    Management Information System Quarterly (MISQ),
    Decision Sciences,
    Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS),
    IEEE Transactions on Big Data,
    IEEE Transactions on Service Computing,
    Information & Management,
    Electronic Commerce Research,
    Information System Research (ISR),
    Journal of Interactive Marketing,
    Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JAIST),
    INFORMS Journal on Computing (JOC),
    European Journal of Information Systems (EJIS),
    Production and Operations Management (POM),
    Management Science,
    Organization Science,
    Journal of Management Information Systems (JMIS),
    Journal of Marketing (JM)

Invited seminar talks:

  • 2024: University of Minnesota, University of Texas, Dallas
  • 2023: T. Rowe Price Group, Inc., Shanghai Jiaotong University
  • 2022: Texas A&M University
  • 2021: Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University; ISOM, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; Computing, National University of Singapore
  • 2019: Eli Broad College of Business, Michigan State University
  • 2018: Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University; Simon Business School, University of Rochester; Information Systems and Operations Management, University of Florida
  • 2017: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
  • 2016: University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
  • 2015: DePaul University; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; IBM Research.