Dr. Nan Zhang is a Professor in the Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame. Dr. Zhang received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Texas A&M University before rising through academic ranks to Professor of Computer Science at George Washington University. Before joining Notre Dame, he served as Professor of Management at the University of Florida, Professor of Information Sciences and Technology at Pennsylvania State University, and Professor of Information Technology and Analytics at American University, Washington DC. His also served as a Program Director and an expert at the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering at the National Science Foundation.
Dr. Zhang’s current research focuses on the societal implications of artificial intelligence (AI) and the integration of machine learning and data analytics in social sciences. His research on these topics has been supported by federal agencies such as NSF, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Army Research Institute (ARI), Army Research Office (ARO), and companies such as Amazon and Meta. His work was recognized by awards such as the Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Research Highlight, the ACM Special Interest Group on Management of Data (SIGMOD) Research Highlight Award, the NSF CAREER award, and several best paper awards. He served as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering and ACM SIGMOD, and a guest associate editor for Management Information Systems (MIS) Quarterly and European Physical Journal (EPJ) Data Science.