Dr. Min Zhang, a distinguished professor and Director of the Research Institute for Human Language Technology at Soochow University (China), received his Bachelor degree and Ph.D. degree in computer science from Harbin Institute of Technology in 1991 and 1997, respectively. From 1997 to 1999, he worked as a postdoctoral research fellow in Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in South Korea. He began his academic and industrial career as a researcher at Lernout & Hauspie Asia Pacific (Singapore) in September 1999. He joined Infotalk Technology (Singapore) as a researcher in 2001 and became a senior research manager in 2002. He joined the Institute for Infocomm Research (Singapore) as a research scientist in December 2003. He built up the statistical machine translation (SMT) team in the institute in 2007 and managed the SMT research and development activities in the institute until 2013. He joined Soochow University in 2012 and set up the Research Institute for Human Language Technology in 2013.
His current research interests include machine translation, natural language processing, information extraction, social network computing, Internet intelligence, intelligent computing and machine learning. He has co-authored more than 130 papers in leading journals and conferences, and co-edited 10 books published by Springer and IEEE. He has been actively contributing to the research community by organizing many conferences as conference chairs, program chairs and organizing chairs, and giving talks at many conferences and lectures. He was the recipient of several awards in China and oversea, including the “2013 Shuang Chuang Program (1000 Talent Program of Jiangsu Province)”, the "2013 Six-Summit Talent Program of Jiangsu Province", the 2nd prize of the Ministry of Aerospace of China in 1995 and 1997, the 2008/2009 research achiever of the Institute for Infocomm Research and the 2002 National Infocomm Award (group) at Singapore. He is the vice president of COLIPS (2011-2013), a steering committee member of PACLIC (2011~now), an executive member of AFNLP (2013~2014) and a member of ACL (2006~). He supervises Ph.D students at National University of Singapore, Harbin Institute of Technology and Soochow University.
His current research interests include machine translation, natural language processing, information extraction, social network computing, Internet intelligence, intelligent computing and machine learning. He has co-authored more than 130 papers in leading journals and conferences, and co-edited 10 books published by Springer and IEEE. He has been actively contributing to the research community by organizing many conferences as conference chairs, program chairs and organizing chairs, and giving talks at many conferences and lectures. He was the recipient of several awards in China and oversea, including the “2013 Shuang Chuang Program (1000 Talent Program of Jiangsu Province)”, the "2013 Six-Summit Talent Program of Jiangsu Province", the 2nd prize of the Ministry of Aerospace of China in 1995 and 1997, the 2008/2009 research achiever of the Institute for Infocomm Research and the 2002 National Infocomm Award (group) at Singapore. He is the vice president of COLIPS (2011-2013), a steering committee member of PACLIC (2011~now), an executive member of AFNLP (2013~2014) and a member of ACL (2006~). He supervises Ph.D students at National University of Singapore, Harbin Institute of Technology and Soochow University.