Zhongfei (Mark) Zhang received B.S. (cum laude) in Electronics Engineering, M.S. in Information Science, both from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. When he was in the graduate school, he also worked as an Intern student at NEC Research Institute, Inc. at Princeton, NJ, and as a technical consultant at Applied Artificial Intelligence, Inc. (formerly Amerinex Artificial Intelligence, Inc.) at Amherst, MA. He was a research scientist of the Center of Excellence for Document Analysis and Recognition and was in the faculty of the Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, both at SUNY Buffalo. He joined the faculty of Computer Science Dept. at SUNY Binghamton in the Fall of 1999. He has published over 90 peer-reviewed academic papers in international and national journals and conferences and several invited papers and book chapters, has edited or co-edited two books, has served as reviewers or program committee members for many international journals and conferences, and has served as grant review panelists for several governmental and private funding agencies including NSF and NASA. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, a member of IEEE Computer Society and a member of ACM. He is an Associate Editor for Pattern Recognition, and Guest Editors for IEEE Transactions on Multimedia and ACM Multimedia Systems Journal.

Research Interests

Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Multimedia Information Indexing and Retrieval, Pattern Recognition, Medical Imaging, and Bioinformatics.

Courses taught

• CS538: Introduction to Multimedia Database Systems
• CS548: Introduction to Multimedia Systems
• CS565: Introduction to Artificial Intellligence
• CS556: Introduction to Computer Vision
• CS535: Introduction to Data Mining
• CS680A: Graduate Seminar on Advanced Topics on Data Mining
• CS333: Introduction to Algorithms

Selected Publications

• Ruofei Zhang and Zhongfei (Mark) Zhang, FAST: Towards More Effective and Efficient Image Retrieval, Accepted to appear in ACM Transactions on Multimedia Systems, the special issue on Multimedia Information Retrieval, Springer, 2005
• Zhongfei (Mark) Zhang, Ruofei Zhang, Jian Yao, Guangbiao Pu, Paul E. Knudson, Ruth S. Weinstock, and Andrzej Krol, Medical Data on Demand with WebMIA, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine, IEEE Press, Vol. 24, Number 3, May/June 2005, pp 117 -- 122
• Bo Long, Zhongfei (Mark) Zhang, and Philip S. Yu, Combining Multiple Clusterings by Soft Correspondence, Accepted to appear in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, IEEE Computer Society Press, New Orleans, LA, November, 2005
• Jian Yao and Zhongfei (Mark) Zhang, Object Detection in Aerial Imagery Based on Enhanced Semi-Supervised Learning, Accepted in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, IEEE Computer Society Press, Beijing, China, October, 2005
• Ruofei Zhang, Zhongfei (Mark) Zhang, Mingjing Li, Wei-Ying Ma, and Hong-Jiang Zhang, A Probabilistic Semantic Model for Image Annotation and Multi-Modal Image Retrieval, Accepted in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, IEEE Computer Society Press, Beijing, China, October, 2005
• Bo Long, Zhongfei (Mark) Zhang, and Philip S. Yu, Co-clustering by Block Value Decomposition, accepted to Proc. ACM International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, ACM Press, Chicago, IL, August, 2005