Liang-jie Zhang

IEEE Fellow

Liang-Jie (LJ) Zhang received his Ph.D. on Pattern Recognition and Intelligent Control from Tsinghua University. Currently, he is a Senior Vice President of Kingdee International Software Group Company Limited, which is a publicly listed company in Hong Kong Stock Market (0268). He has been leading the research and developments of enterprise applications based on latest digital technologies. Prior to this position, he was a research staff member and program manager of application architectures and realization at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center and Chief Architect of Industry Standards at IBM Software Group, where he led the R&D of the custom solution engagement cloud and service-oriented architecture solutions. Dr. Zhang has published more than 180 technical papers in journals, book chapters, and conference proceedings. He has 50 granted patents in the areas of e-commerce, Web services, rich media, data management, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and information appliances. He was elected as an IEEE Fellow in 2011, and in the same year won the Technical Achievement Award "for pioneering contributions to Application Design Techniques in Services Computing" from the IEEE Computer Society. He has served as the President of Shenzhen Big Data Alliance since 2013. Dr. Zhang is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Web Services Research (IJWSR). He was also the founding Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC) from 2008 to 2012.