Learning from my elders - Shizhuo Zhu

Shizhuo Zhu is the only senior IST student in our lab - the Laboratory for Intelligent Agents, though there are several seniors in the department of Computer Science and Engineering. Shizhuo has been in IST since 2003, and right now he is preparing for his Ph.D. dissertation defense. The topic of his dissertation is "Hypothesis-Driven Story Building: A Framework for Supporting Decision-Making as Partial Information Arrives Over Time", which focuses on the attributes of decision-making especially when information is incomplete and changing.

Shizhuo's research interests mainly focus on artificial intelligence and multi-agent systems. And he has attended several conferences as follows:

1. International Human-Computer Interaction Conference (HCI), Crete, Greece, 2003.

2. North East Student Colloquium on Artificial Intelligence (NESCAI), Ithaca, USA, 2006.

3. Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME), Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2007.

And he has published 15 papers including the ones he published when he was a master student in China, such as:

1. Shizhuo Zhu, Joanna Abraham, Sharoda A. Paul, Madhu Reddy, John Yen, Mark Pfaff, and Christopher DeFlitch, R-CAST-MED: Applying Intelligent Agents to Support Emergency Medical Decision Making Teams. The 11th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME'07), Amsterdam, Netherlands, July 09-11, 2007.

2.  Po-Chun Chen, Xiaocong Fan, Shizhuo Zhu, John Yen: Boosting-Based Learning Agents for Experience Classification. In Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'06), p. 385-388, 2006.

3. Yanqing Ji, Hao Ying, John Yen, Shizhuo Zhu, Daniel C. Barth-Jones, Richard E. Miller, R. Michael Massanari, A Distributed Adverse Drug Reaction Detection System Using Intelligent Agents with Fuzzy Recognition-Primed Decision Model, International Journal of Intelligent Systems, in press.  

A complete list of his publication can be found at http://my.win.psu.edu/szz104/pulications.htm. 

Academically, he thinks himself focus more on technology though he is an IST student. During his research work, he enjoys the happiness from new discoveries while most time he has to bear the loneliness and depression. Maybe this is what Ph.D. students do, in order to find new research discoveries, we have to pay a lot of time and attention and most time we are destined to be painful and lonely. But who knows, maybe I will find the research is worth it.

Both of Shizhuo's and my research work lie on Artificial Intelligence (AI), but he focus on the direction of intelligent agents like decision-making while mine is social network analysis. Though the two research topics above look very different, we may use a lot of same and similar AI thoughts and methods during our research work. 

Note: More details about Shizhuo Zhu can be found at his webpage: http://my.win.psu.edu/szz104/.