Dr. Zhang’s current research focuses on the societal implications of artificial intelligence (AI) and the integration of machine learning and data analytics in social sciences. His research on these topics has been supported by federal agencies such as the NSF, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and the Army Research Office (ARO), and companies such as Amazon and Meta. His work was recognized by awards such as the Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Research Highlight in 2020, the ACM Special Interest Group on Management of Data (SIGMOD) Research Highlight Award in 2019, the NSF CAREER award in 2008, and several best paper awards from leading research conferences. He served as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering and ACM SIGMOD, and a guest associate editor for Management Information Systems (MIS) Quarterly and European Physical Journal (EPJ) Data Science.