Zheng Fang, University of Massachusetts Lowell

ZHENG FANG
Department of Computer Science
University of Massachusetts Lowell
Lowell, MA 01854

Office: Olsen Hall 305, 198 Riverside Street, North Campus
Email: zfang [AT] cs dot uml dot edu
Tel: 978-934-1969 (work)

Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, Massachusetts
B.S. in Computer Science, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China

Network Dynamics, Knowledge Discovery, Algorithms, Data Mining and Intelligence, Computational Complexity, Mobile and Wireless Networks.

Z. Fang, J. Wang, B. Liu, W. Gong, Wikipedia as Domain Knowledge Networks: Domain Extraction and Statistical Measurement, Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval (KDIR), 2011
H. Achrekar, Z. Fang, B. Liu, Y. Li, C. Chen, J. Wang, A Spatio-Temporal Approach to the Discovery of Online Social Trends, Conference on Combinatorial Optimization and Applications (COCOA), 2011
Z. Fang, J. Wang, B. Liu, W. Gong, Double Pareto Lognormal Distributions in Complex Networks, Handbook of Optimization in Complex Networks: Theory and Application, Springer Publisher, 2011
T. Xia, D. Zhang, Z. Fang, C. Chen, J. Wang, Online Subspace Skyline Query Processing using the Compressed Skycube, ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS), accepted, 2011
J. Wang, Z. Fang, C. Chen, The PL-Tree: A Fast High-Dimensional Access Method for Range Queries, TechReport, UML-TR-2009-010
Z. Fang, J. Wang, D. Zhang, Workload-Driven Compressed Skycube Queries in Wireless Applications, Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications (WASA), 2009
Z. Fang, J. Wang, Hybrid Approximation for Minimum-Cost Target Coverage in Wireless Sensor Networks, Journal of Optimization Letters, 2009
Z. Fang, J. Wang, Convex Combination Approximation for the Min-Cost WSN Point Coverage Problem, Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications (WASA), 2008

Minimum Cost Wireless Sensor Network Coverage with Convex Combination Approximation. WASA Conference, Dallas, TX, 2008
Workload-Driven Compressed Skycube Queries in Wireless Applications. WASA Conference, Boston, MA, 2009

Reviewer for J.WCN 2009, ISSAC 2009, J.TCS 2008, J.TCS 2009, JCM 2010, FAW-AAIM 2011.
As Primary Instructor
- 94.304 Foundations of Computer Science, Summer 2008
- 94.404 Analysis of Algorithm, Summer 2009, 2010
As Teaching Assistant
- 91.304 Foundations of Computer Science, Fall 2007
- 91.404 Analysis of Algorithm, Fall 2007
- 91.503 Graduate Algorithm, Fall 2008, 2009
- 91.544 Data Mining and Machine Learning, Spring 2010