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 University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He also holds a joint Full Professor position (Courtesy) in the Department of Computer Science at UNCC and is the Director of Research for the School of Data Science at UNC Charlotte. Before joining UNCC, he was a full professor of Information Systems at University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He received his Ph.D. in Management Information Systems from the Eller School of Management at the University of Arizona in 2002. His current research interests include mobile HCI, social media analytics, health IT, business intelligence, and online communities. He has published approximately 170 research articles in journals and conference proceedings, including journals such as MIS Quarterly, Journal of Management Information Systems, ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing, ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems, Communications of the ACM, Decision Support 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, and Google Inc., etc. According to Google Scholar, his work has been cited more than 14,000 times.
