Dr. Dongsong Zhang is a Belk Endowed Chair Professor in Business Analytics (with tenure) in the Department of Business Information Systems and Operations Management at the Belk College of Business, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNC Charlotte). He also serves as the interim Executive Director of the School of Data Science and holds an affiliate professor position in the Department of Computer Science at UNC Charlotte. His current research interests include online misinformation detection, mobile HCI, social media analytics, health IT, business intelligence, and online communities. He has published about 200 research articles in journals and conference proceedings, including journals such as MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Journal of Management Information Systems, Informs Journal on Computing, Production and Operations Management, ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing, ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, IEEE Intelligent Systems, and Information & Management, among others. He has received a dozen external research grants and awards from U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), National Institute of Health (NIH), U.S. Department of Education, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and Google Inc., etc. According to Google Scholar, his research has been cited more than 17,000 times. He received his Ph.D. in Management Information Systems from the Eller School of Management at the University of Arizona in 2002.
