Dr. Shi Zhong

Hello! Welcome to Shi Zhong's web home.

Dr. Zhong is an experienced professional in applying data mining and machine learning techniques to solve online search, internet advertising, marketing optimization, and business data analytics problems. He is extremely enthusiastic about formulating practical and impactful data mining problems in the afore-mentioned areas and solving/prototyping them. He is now working for Zilliant as a senior scientist.

Experience Highlights

In November 2007, Dr. Zhong joined the Pricing Science Group at Zilliant, a pricing optimization software company in Austin, Texas. He is currently enjoying the work on data segmentation, demand modeling, and optimization.

Before Zilliant, he had been with Yahoo! Data Mining and Research group since December 2005. At Yahoo, he worked on a range of really interesting data mining problems, including advertiser content risk classification, Yahoo data mining platform, behavioral targeting, user segmentation and profiling, and advertiser analytics.

Before 2003, he had interned with Honeywell Technology Center (Minneapolis MN), Pavilion (Austin TX), Compaq (Austin TX), and IBM (Austin TX), working on different pattern recognition and data mining problems and applications.

Throughout his academic career (-2005), Dr. Zhong has done research in the areas of intelligent data analysis and data mining, machine learning, image processing, and pattern recognition. He has published more than 30 (journal and conference) papers, with an emphasis on clustering, feature reduction, and semi-supervised learning.

What's New?

 2008-06-01: Happy Children's Day!

2008-05-11: Happy Mother's Day to all mothers!

2008-05-04: Microsoft walks away from Yahoo deal.

2008-03-08: Joined the PC for IEEE GrC 2008

2008-02-07: Happy Chinese New Year! Microsoft offers to buy Yahoo.

2007-12-19: Extended version of the SOLI paper ("online ad campagin optimization") accepted to a journal IJSOI

2007-11-14: Moved to work for Zilliant in Austin, TX.

2007-09-17: Yahoo bought Zimbra

2007-08-12 ~ 08-15: Attended KDD-2007 and enjoyed it.