He is also an affiliated member of Artificial Intelligence Lab, University of Arizona. Bin received his Ph.D. degree in Information Systems Management from Carnegie Mellon University, and a Master's degree in Machine Learning, from the School of Computer Science at CMU. His primary research interests are large social network analysis and machine learning. Bin's research projects have been funded by federal and national agencies such as NSF and NSFC. His work has appeared in premier journals such as Information Systems Research. Bin also serves as review panelist of NSF and associate editor of Electronic Commerce Research. Before joining academia, Dr. Zhang worked in the Internet industry at companies like Yahoo! and has designed architectures of online ERP systems in the software industry.