- Assistant Professor, Computer Science & Engineering
- Phone: 979-845-9980
- Email: yuzhang@tamu.edu
- Office: PETR 222
- Website: Research Website
Educational Background
- Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - 2024
- M.S., Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - 2019
- B.S., Computer Science, Peking University - 2017
Research Interests
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- Data Mining
- Natural Language Processing
- AI for Science
Awards & Honors
- Dissertation Completion Fellowship, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - 2023
- Yunni & Maxine Pao Memorial Fellowship - 2022
- National Scholarship - 2014
Selected Publications
- Yu Zhang, Hao Cheng, Zhihong Shen, Xiaodong Liu, Ye-Yi Wang, and Jianfeng Gao. Pre-training Multi-task Contrastive Learning Models for Scientific Literature Understanding. EMNLP 2023.
- Yu Zhang, Bowen Jin, Xiusi Chen, Yanzhen Shen, Yunyi Zhang, Yu Meng, and Jiawei Han. Weakly Supervised Multi-Label Classification of Full-Text Scientific Papers. KDD 2023.
- Yu Zhang, Bowen Jin, Qi Zhu, Yu Meng, and Jiawei Han. The Effect of Metadata on Scientific Literature Tagging: A Cross-Field Cross-Model Study. WWW 2023.
- Yu Zhang, Yu Meng, Xuan Wang, Sheng Wang, and Jiawei Han. Seed-Guided Topic Discovery with Out-of-Vocabulary Seeds. NAACL 2022.
- Xuan Wang, Yu Zhang, Xiang Ren, Yuhao Zhang, Marinka Zitnik, Jingbo Shang, Curtis Langlotz, and Jiawei Han. Cross-type Biomedical Named Entity Recognition with Deep Multi-Task Learning. Bioinformatics, Volume 35, Issue 10, 2019.