Prior to joining KAUST, she was a European ERCIM research fellow in Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway, in 2010. She earned her Ph.D. degree in computer science from INRIA-University Paris-Sud, France, in July 2010. She received M.S. and B.S. degrees from Xi’an Jiaotong University, China, in 2006 and 2003, respectively. Dr. Zhang's research interests lie in machine learning and data mining, especially focusing on learning from complex and large-scale streaming data.