Biography

Dr. Chengcui Zhang is an Associate Professor of Computer and Information Sciences at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). She works in the broad areas of multimedia databases and information retrieval, multimedia data mining, multimedia security and forensics, Geoinformatics, and applied Bioinformatics. She has published over 130 refereed articles, many at the top tier venues in computer sciences including IEEE Transactions (5 publications), IEEE Multimedia, ACM Multimedia (MM), IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), ACM Conference on Communication and Computer Security (CCS), and IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME). Dr. Zhang’s research has been externally supported by NSF, NIH, and by awards/gifts from the industry, including IBM, eBay, and Comcast.Dr. Zhang is currently serving as the Chair of IEEE Technical Committee on Semantic Computing and has been serving as the secretary and newsletter editor for IEEE Technical Committee on Multimedia Computing. She has also served in leading roles for many IEEE and ACM conferences, including a program chair for IEEE ICME’14, two times as a program chair for IEEE International Conf. on Information Reuse and Integration (IRI) in 2012 and 2013, a program chair for the 6th FTRA International Conf. on Information Technology Convergence and Services (ITCS 2014), a program vice-chair for the 2007 International Conference on Intelligent Pervasive Computing (IPC-07), etc. She is an Associate Editor of International Journal of Multimedia Data Engineering and Management and on the Editorial Board for 6 other journals.