Tong Zhang (张潼)

Contact

2118 Siebel Center
201 N Goodwin Ave
Urbana, IL 61801, USA
(217) 244-6449
Email: tozhang [at] illinois [dot] edu

Short Bio

Tong Zhang is a professor of Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Previously, he was a professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Rutgers University, and worked at IBM, Yahoo, Google, Baidu, and Tencent.

Tong Zhang's research interests include machine learning algorithms and theory, statistical methods for big data and their applications. He is a fellow of ASA, IEEE, and IMS, and he has been on the editorial boards of leading machine learning journals and program committees of top machine learning conferences.

Tong Zhang received a B.A. in mathematics and computer science from Cornell University and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University.