Keywords

	Kang Zhao Assistant Professor
	Management Sciences S224  John Pappajohn Bus Bldg The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242-1994	Ph: 319-335-3831 Fax: 319-335-0297 E-mail: kang-zhao@uiowa.edu Website CV

Academic History

• PhD in Information Sciences and Technology, The Pennsylvania State University, 2012
• MS in Computer Science, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI, 2006
• BE in Electrical and Information Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China, 2003

Expertise

• social network analysis, social media mining, social computing, business analytics, supply-chain networks, agent-based models.

Awards

• R.W. Graham Endowed Graduate Fellowship , Penn State University, August 2007
• Graduate Achievement Award , Eastern Michigan University, 2006
• Outstanding College Graduate, Beijing Municipal Commission of Education, 2003

Selected Publications

• Who Blogs What: Understanding Publishing Behaviors of Bloggers, Kang Zhao, Akhil Kumar, World Wide Web - Publication Details Forthcoming
• Simulating Inter-organizational Collaboration Networks: a Multi-relational and Event-based Approach, Kang Zhao, John Yen, Louis-Marie Ngamassi, Carleen Maitland, Andrea Tapia, Simulation, vol 88, 2012, 616-631
• Achieving High Robustness in Supply Distribution Networks by Rewiring, Kang Zhao, Akhil Kumar, John Yen, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management , vol 58, 2011, 347-362
• Analyzing the Resilience of Complex Supply Network Topologies against Random and Targeted Disruptions, Kang Zhao, Akhil Kumar, Terry P. Harrison, John Yen, IEEE Systems Journal, vol 5, 2011, 28-39
• Modeling Emerging Coalitions in the context of Inter-organizational Networks: A Case Study of Humanitarian Coordination, Kang Zhao, John Yen, Louis-Marie Ngamassi, Carleen Maitland, Andrea Tapia, International Journal of Intelligent Control and Systems Research, vol 14, 2009, 97-103
• Simulating Emergent Urban Form Using Agent-Based Modeling: Desakota in the Suzhou-Wuxian Region in China, Yichun Xie, Michael Batty, Kang Zhao, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, vol 97, 2007, 477-495

Additional Training

• Complex Systems Summer School, Santa Fe Institute, 2010
• Summer Institute on Computational Analysis of Social & Organizational Systems, Carnegie Mellon University, 2009