I have talked pretty enough about myself and my advisor. This time, I'm going to have the pleasure of introducing Shizhuo Zhu, a Ph.D. candidate of IST, whom I am working with in the Laboratory for Intelligent Agents. Though Shizhuo and I have different cultural backgrounds and research topics, we still have many things in common; we are IST students who majored in computer science before coming to IST, and who are interested in artificial intelligence especially in intelligent agents and being advised by the same professor, Dr. John Yen.
Shizhuo Zhu He is the only IST student in the laboratory who has been here more than two years. Though there are several 1st or 2nd year IST students here, all the senior students except Shizhuo are from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. This is mainly because deep knowledge in computer science is often much helpful in carrying out the research projects of the laboratory. He is from the People's Republic of China. Prior to his admission to the Ph.D. program in IST at Penn State in 2003, he had been a master's student in computer science at USTC, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, P.R. China. He had worked with Dr. Xiaoping Chen as a research assistant in the Multi-Agent Systems Laboratory at USTC. From this fact, it becomes evident that Shizhuo decided to continue developing his expertise in artificial intelligence and multi-agent systems at that time. He thinks of himself academically as a lonely traveler; he tells that his research is like a journey alone accompanied with pain, depression, loneliness, and helplessness. Nevertheless, ironically, he enjoys happiness, enthusiasm, surprise, and satisfaction from his research once in a while. His Ph.D. dissertation topic will be "hypothesis-driven story building" which is a framework for supporting decision making as partial information arrives over time. He is in the process of finalizing his dissertation. Prior to this, he had worked on R-CAST-MED that makes use of intelligent agents to support decision making teams in medical emergency. For this research, he has been cooperating with medical institutions such as Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center for a long time. He has published 15 research papers since 2003 according to the list of his publication on his web page. http://my.win.psu.edu/szz104/publications.htm His research papers mainly lie in the area of intelligent agents and fuzzy logic. Conferences that he attended include - AIME (Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine) 2007, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- NESCAI (North East Student Colloquium on Artificial Intelligence) 2006, Ithaca, NY
- HCI (International Human-Computer Interaction Conference) 2003, Crete, Greece
I hope he finish his Ph.D. dissertation defense soon, and find a good job position for his future career as an expert in artificial intelligence having great interdisciplinary research experience. His future career must be a happy journey that is full of happiness, enthusiasm, surprise, and satisfaction. Cheers for Shizhuo!
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