"Imagination is more important than knowledge." Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

I am interested in a wide range of data mining and machine learning applications, including: search ranking features and algorithms, query and click log mining, personalization and recommendation, and social network analysis.

I have also worked on the Next Generation CiteSeer project.

Patents

Relevance Ranking with Customizable Criteria. Filed in 2009.
Re-Ranking Search Results Based on Query Log Statistics. Filed in 2006. Patent No. 20070214131.

Selected Publications

• Ziming Zhuang, Cliff Brunk, Prasenjit Mitra, and C. Lee Giles. Towards Click-based Models of Geographic Interests in Web Search. In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE/WIC International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI), Sydney, Australia, December 2008. (Acceptance rate: 19%)


• Yang Song, Ziming Zhuang, Huajing Li, Qiankun Zhao, Jia Li, Wang-chien Lee, and C. Lee Giles. Real-time Automatic Tag Recommendation. In Proceedings of The 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR), Singapore, July 2008. (Acceptance rate: 17%)


• Jian Huang, Ziming Zhuang, Jia Li, and C. Lee Giles. Collaboration Over Time: Characterizing and Modeling Network Evolution. In Proceedings of The First ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), Stanford, CA, February, 2008. (Acceptance rate: 16%)


• Yang Sun, Ziming Zhuang, Isaac Councill, and C. Lee Giles. Determining Bias to Search Engines from Robots.txt. In Proceedings of 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI). Silicon Valley, USA. November, 2007.


• Qingzhao Tan, Ziming Zhuang, Prasenjit Mitra, and C. Lee Giles. Efficiently Detecting Webpage Updates Using Samples. In Proceedings of The 17th International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE). Como, Italy. July, 2007. (Acceptance rate: 12%)


• Ziming Zhuang, Ergin Elmacioglu, Dongwon Lee, and C. Lee Giles. Measuring Conference Quality by Mining Program Committee Characteristics. In Proceedings of The ACM-IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL). Vancouver, Canada. June, 2007.


• Ziming Zhuang, Silviu Cucerzan. Re-Ranking Search Results Using Query Logs. In Proceedings of the ACM 15th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM). Arlington, VA, USA. November 2006. (Acceptance rate: 25%)


• Ziming Zhuang, Silviu Cucerzan, C. Lee Giles. Network Flow for Collaborative Ranking. In Proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (PKDD). Berlin, Germany. September 2006. (Acceptance rate 8.76%)


• Isaac G. Councill, Huajing Li, Ziming Zhuang, Sandip Debnath, Levent Bolelli, Wang-Chien Lee, Anand Sivasubramaniam, C. Lee Giles. Learning Metadata from the Evidence in an On-Line Citation Matching Scheme. In Proceedings of The ACM-IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL). Chapel Hill, NC, USA. June 2006. (Vannevar Bush Best Paper Award Nominee.)

• Ziming Zhuang, Rohit Wagle, and C. Lee Giles. What’s There and What’s Not? Focused Crawling for Missing Documents in Digital Libraries. In Proceedings of The ACM-IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL). Denver, CO, USA. June 2005. (Best Student Paper Award Nominee.)