Rachel Carson College Faculty Fellows
Sikina Jinnah is Rachel Carson College's new faculty chair!
The Chair of the Faculty is an Academic Senate member, other than the Provost, who is elected by the college Faculty to serve a two year term, and will serve as a member of the Executive Committee.
Dr. Jinnah is an Associate Professor in the Politics Department, an affiliated faculty member in the Environmental Studies Department, and a 2017 Andrew Carnegie Fellow. Her research focuses on the shifting locations of power and influence in global environmental governance, and in particular the role of transnational actors in environmental decision-making. Her most recent projects examine how key norms in global climate politics shape power relations, the role of U.S. preferential trade agreements in shaping environmental policy in trading partner nations, and the politics of climate engineering governance.
- Title
- Professor
- Division Baskin School of Engineering
- Department
- Computer Science and Engineering
- Phone 831-459-4549
- Website
- Office Location
- Jack Baskin Engineering Building, Engineering 2, Room 565
- Office Hours By appointment
- Mail Stop SOE3
- Mailing Address
- 1156 high street
- Santa Cruz CA 95064
- Faculty Areas of Expertise Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Human Computer Interaction, Information Technology Management, Language Processing
- Courses CSE145 Introduction to Data Mining, CSE144 Applied Machine Learning: Deep Learning, CSE272 Information Retrieval, TIM147 Introduction to Data Mining for Business, CSE243 Data Mining
Summary of Expertise
- Information retrieval
- Recommendation systems
- Natural language processing
- Data mining
- Machine learning
Research Interests
- Information retrieval
- Recommendation systems
- Social media analysis
- Natural language processing
- Data mining
- Machine learning
- Artificial intelligence
- Computational economics
Biography, Education and Training
Professor Zhang's research interests are artificial intelligence, informational search and recommendation, natural language processing, machine learning and data mining and computational economics. She has received various awards, including ACM SIGIR Best Paper Award, National Science Foundation Faculty Career Award, Air Force Young Investigator Award, Google Research Award, Microsoft Research Award, and IBM Research Fellowship. She has served as program chair, area chair and PC member for various top tier conferences. She was an associate editor for ACM Transaction on Information Systems. Dr. Zhang received her Ph.D. and M.S. from School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University and her B.S. from Tsinghua University.
Yi Zhang is also a co-founder of Rul.ai, a low/no code omni channel conversational AI platform. She has been a consultant or technical adviser for several large companies (Alibaba, HP, Toyota, etc.) and startups
Selected Publications
