Dr. Cheng Zhang is currently an associate professor in Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. He has published many papers at top international conferences such as AAAI, ACL, SIGIR, ICDM, EMNLP, and he has received multiple external grants (over ￥8M in total) funded by 863 Plan, 242 Plan, National Sci-Tech Support Plan, and Industry.His current research interests include Machine Learning, Big Data Analytics and Distributed Computing.