Dr. Yong Zheng, Associate Professor, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA

Dr. Yong Zheng is currently a tenured Associate Professor at Department of Information Technology and Management, College of Computing, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, USA, and he also served as a Co-Director of the PhD Program in the ITM Department. Dr. Zheng is the director of the Center for Decision Making and Optimization (DMO) at Illinois Institute of Technology. His primary research focus encompasses the realm of Data Science and AI, with a specific emphasis on User Modeling, Recommender Systems, HCI and AI applications in education and finance. He served as the program chair at the ACM SIGITE 2022 conference, and he is one of the associate editors at the Springer journal "Education and Information Technologies".