Learning from my elders

In this article, I would like to introduce one of my elders, whose name is Shizhuo Zhu. He is a Ph. D. student at School of Information Sciences and Technology in the Pennsylvania State University.  He is currently working in the Laboratory for Intelligent Agents of IST. His advisor is John Yen.

His research work focuses on medical informatics, which is a inter-disciplinary research area combing areas like computational, informational, cognitive, organizational, and other sciences. The main target of medical informatics is the acquisition, storage, and use of information in the health/biomedical domain. He has publish several good papers in some related conferences and journals.

There is a relationship between his research and mine. Because the research work in IST is inter-disciplinary in nature. It is hard for us to say their research work is different from one to another for any two students in IST. Inter-disciplinary is also advantages for the development of IST. His research needs to analysis electronic medical record in a free text form. Such analysis needs the technology of text mining, which is my research area.