Contact Information

E-mail: zhongh3@rpi.edu (currently inactive)
E-mail: hao-zhong@outlook.com
Homepage: zhongh.github.io

Research interest

Data Science, policy awareness, semantic web, data integration, privacy by design, artificial intelligence, and more.

Education

Ph.D. Computer Science (on leave) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 2015 -
M.S. Applied Mathematics Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 2011 - 2014
B.E. Economics Sun Yat-sen University, Lingnan (University) College 2007 - 2011
Visiting student University of California, Los Angeles 2009 - 2010

Projects

Project Name Funded by Timeline
Additive Manufacturing Process Analytics (AMPA) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency 2017 - 2019
ENabling Knowledge Integration (ENKI) National Science Foundation 2017 - 2019
Deep Time Data Infrastructure (DTDI) W.M. Keck Foundation 2016 - 2019
Deep Carbon Observatory, Data Science (DCO-DS) Alfred P. Sloan Foundation 2015 - 2019

Selected Works

  1. (In prep.) Nowak, J.F., Zhong H., Gao Z., Priyank, P., Fox, P., and Samuel J. (2021) A DATA CURATION AND REUSE FRAMEWORK TO ENABLE PARAMETER SELECTION IN POLYMER BINDER JET PRINTING. TBD.
  2. (In prep.) Zhong H., Ma X., Huang F., and Fox P. (2021) Thermodynamic Data Legacy of Carbon-Related Minerals for Deep Carbon Science. Geoscience Data Journal. DCO Special Issue.
  3. Muscente A.D., Prabhu A. Zhong H., Eleish A., Meyer M., Fox P.A., Hazen R.M., and Knoll A. (2018) Quantifying ecological impacts of mass extinctions with network analysis of fossil communities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1719976115
  4. Moore, E.K., Hao, J., Prabhu A., Zhong, H., Jelen, B.I., Meyer, M., Hazen, R.M., and Falkowski, P.G. (2018) Geological and Chemical Factors that Impacted the Biological Utilization of Cobalt in the Archean Eon. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 12, 1–17. http://doi.org/10.1002/2017JG004067
  5. Ma, X., West, P., Zednik, S., Erickson, J.S., Eleish, A., Chen, Y., Wang, H., Zhong, H., and Fox, P. (2017) Weaving a Knowledge Network for Deep Carbon Science. Frontiers in Earth Science, 5, Article 36. http://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2017.00036 .
  6. Ma, X., West, P., Erickson, J.S., Zednik, S., Chen, Y., Wang, H., Zhong, H., and Fox, P. (2015) From data portal to knowledge portal: Leveraging semantic technologies to support interdisciplinary studies. In: Proceedings of International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) 2015 (October 11-15 2015, Bethlehem, PA, US). http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1501/Diversity2015-paper_1.pdf .

Talks and Abstracts

  1. Zhong, H., Prahbu, A., Huang, F., Eleish, A., Chastain K., Thomson B., Narkar S., Fontaine K.S., Hummer D.R., Morrison S.M., Downs, R.T., Hazen, R., Fox, P.A., Heaney, P.J. (December 10, 2019) Interactive, Web-based Visualizations for Hierarchical Information and Knowledge in Geosciences: An Implementation on the Dana Classification and its Applications .
    In: AGU Fall Meeting 2019
  2. Chastain K., Heaney, P.J., Narkar S., Thomson B., Zhong, H., Fox, P.A. (December 10, 2019) Updating Dana: Encoding a Mineral Classification graph from Existing Resources .
    In: AGU Fall Meeting 2019
  3. Zhong, H., Ma, X., Prahbu, A., Eleish, A., Pan, F., Parsons, M.A., Ghiorso, M.S., West, P., Zednik, S., Erickson J.S., Chen, Y., Wang H., and Fox, P.A. (December 12, 2017) Thermodynamic Data Rescue and Informatics for Deep Carbon Science .
    In: AGU Fall Meeting 2017
  4. Prabhu A., Fox P.A., Zhong, H., Eleish A., Ma X., Zednik S., Morrison S.M., Moore E., Muscente D., Meyer M., Hazen R.M., and The Deep Time Data Infrastructure Team (2017) Visualizing Complex Environments in the Geo- and Bio Sciences
    In: AGU Fall Meeting 2017 (Abstract #259289)
  5. Fox, P.A., Eleish, A., Li, C., Prabhu, A., and Zhong, H. (December 2017) Heterogeneity and Heterarchy: How far can network analyses in Earth and space sciences take us?
    In: AGU Fall Meeting 2017
  6. Morrison S.M., Eleish A., Liu C., Prabhu A., Zhong, H. , Fox P.A., Golden J.J., Ralph J., Downs R.T., Hystad G., Meyer M., Hummer D.R., and Hazen R.M. (2017) Copper mineral ecology and network analysis through deep time
    In: DCO International Science Meeting (Abstract #S-28)
  7. Ma, X., West, P., Erickson, J., Zednik, S., Chen, Y., Wang, H., Zhong, H., and Fox, P. (October 12, 2015) From data portal to knowledge portal: Leveraging semantic technologies to support interdisciplinary studies.
    In: International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) 2015

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A Short Bio

Data scientist, PhD student in Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), research assistant in the Tetherless World Constellation.

I received my Bachelor's degree in Economics from Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China and M.S. in Applied Mathematics at RPI. I am currently pursuing my doctorate in computer science, advised by Prof. Peter Fox. I worked as a data scientist and/or application developer on a number of research projects, such as Deep Carbon Observatory, Deep Time Data Infrastructure, and etc.

I research in data science, semantic web, artificial intelligence, data integration, and data-driven manufacturing inovations. I am also interested in topics such as policy awareness and privacy-by-design.

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