Department
Department of Computer Science
Phone
+1 (210) 9998139
Email Address
yzhang@trinity.edu
Location
Center for the Sciences and Innovation
Room
270R

Zhang directs the Laboratory for Distributed Intelligent Agent Systems at Trinity University. Her research falls within Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation. Zhang is an active member of the Society for Modeling & Simulation International. She has been an Associate Editor for the Transactions of Simulation since 2009, and a program co-chair of the Agent-Directed Simulation in the Spring Simulation Multi-Conference since 2008. Since 2011, she has been the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Agent Technologies and Systems (published by IGI Global). From 2012, she has been the Editor-in-Chief of the SCS Newsletter. In 2013, she received the SCS Outstanding Service Award. In 2015, she has been elected as a Director at Large by SCS for a term of three years.

Over the past decade, Zhang has been published 100+ journal and conference papers, and books and book chapters. She also has been PI or Co-PI on six funded NSF proposals (four as PI).

Education

  • Texas A&M University 

Subjects Taught

  • Principles of Computer Science
  • Discrete Structures
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Multi-Agent System

Teaching and Expertise

  • Multi-Agent Simulation
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Machine Learning

Honors & Awards

Grants

  • Project Title: Building a Starting Core for No-Boundary Education and Research Network
    • Duration: 2014-2016
    • Amount: 300,000
    • Funding Agency: NSF EAGER
    • Role: Co-PI (PI: Xiuzheng Huang).

Awards

  • SCS Outstanding Service Award, The Society for Modeling & Simulation International, 2013.