Yong Zheng
Director Of PhD Program In Information Technology
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolYong Zheng is an academic leader and researcher with a decade of experience advancing user modeling, web personalization, recommender systems, technology-enhanced learning, and FinTech. As Director of the PhD Program in Information Technology and Director of the Center for Decision Making and Optimization at Illinois Tech, he combines program leadership with hands-on research and curriculum development in data analytics. He has progressed from research and teaching roles to associate department chair and associate professor, reflecting a strong track record in academic administration and mentorship. His consulting work for industry players like Pandora, NPAW, and Morningstar highlights a practical ability to translate recommender and multi-objective optimization research into product impact. An associate editor for Education and Information Technologies and Frontiers in Big Data, he shapes scholarly discourse while supervising applied projects in educational recommender systems. Based in Chicago, he blends international training (PhD from DePaul; MS and BE from top Chinese universities) with a consistent focus on decision-making systems that improve learning and financial outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
M.S. Computer and Its Application, M.S. Computer and Its Application at Nanjing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsB.E. Computer Science & Technologies, B.E. Computer Science & Technologies at Jiangnan UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer and Information Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer and Information Sciences at DePaul University
Github Skills (62)
sparse10
vnc10
flutter-apps10
linux10
rdp10
java10
remote-control10
collaborative-filtering10
flutter-web10
remote-desktop10
recommender10
wayland10
factorization10
flutter-desktop9
rust-lang9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
irecsys/irecsys.github.io
Feb 2019 - Sep 2023
Contributions:342 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
moorecsys/moorecsys.github.io
May 2021 - Dec 2022
Contributions:62 commits, 51 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
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