About me

Hi! My name is Ying Zhang (章颖). I’m now a 3rd year CS graduate student in ShanghaiTech University. Before that, I got my Bechalor’s degree from Communication University of China in 2022. My career goal is to become an excellent data scientist!

I hope to:

• Analyze and optimize social system through data-driven methodologies
• Develop advanced technological tools to facilitate daily life and increase productivity

Accordingly, my research interests primarily focus on data science and artificial intelligence, and their extensive applications in interdisciplinary fields like computational social sciences.

Beyond my academic pursuits, I enjoy exploring new techs🖥️, reading books📘, and making miniature models🏡 in my free time.

If you are interested in collaborating with me, feel free to get in touch! 🤝

Publications

(* Equal contribution, † Corresponding author)

[1] Ying Zhang*, Xiaofeng Li*, Zhaoyang Liu, Haipeng Zhang†, “Paths of A Million People: Extracting Life Trajectories from Wikipedia”, (ICWSM’25)

[2] Laixin Xie, Ying Zhang, Xiyuan Wang, Shiyi Liu, Shenghan Gao, Xing Jiang, Xingxing Xing, Wei Wan, Haipeng Zhang, Quan Li†, “Influence Maximization in Temporal Social Networks with a Cold-start Problem: A Supervised Approach”, (ICWSM’25)

[3] Kai Peng*, Ying Zhang*, Shuai Ling, Zhaoru Ke, Haipeng Zhang†, “Where Did the President Visit Last Week? Detecting Celebrity Trips from News Articles”, (ICWSM’24 Spotlight)

Preprints

[1] Hongyuan Tao*, Ying Zhang*, Zhenhao Tang*, Hongen Peng, Xukun Zhu, Bingchang Liu, Yingguang Yang, Ziyin Zhang, Zhaogui Xu, Haipeng Zhang, Linchao Zhu, Rui Wang, Hang Yu†, Jianguo Li†, Peng Di†, “Code Graph Model (CGM): An Open Graph-Based Large Language Model for Repository-Level Software Engineering Tasks”,