Dr Mengdie Zhuang

PhD (Sheffield), PGCert (Sheffield), SFHEA

Information School

Lecturer in Data Science

Mengdie Zhuang
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m.zhuang@sheffield.ac.uk

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Dr Mengdie Zhuang
Information School
Room C223
The Wave
2 Whitham Road
Sheffield
S10 2AH
Profile

Mengdie is a lecturer in Data Science in the Information School at the University of Sheffield. Her work focuses on understanding how people interact with AI systems in the process of interpreting data and then acquiring information, and how this interaction augments the user experience and influences decision-making.  She specialises in using methods from Data Visualization, Machine Learning, HCI to create innovative methodologies and guide interface design, addressing challenges in areas such as healthcare and human mobility. She was a research associate at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (UCL CASA). She completed a PhD in Information Retrieval at the University of Sheffield.

Research interests

* Data Visualisation
* Human Interaction with AI Applications
* User Engagement
* Digital Health
* Human Mobility
* Interactive Information Retrieval

Publications

Journal articles

Chapters

Conference proceedings papers

Preprints

Research group

Information Retrieval, Health Informatics.
 

Grants

Digital Health Hub for AMR

EPSRC

Co-Investigator 

£4,195,584

01 December 2023

36 months

Teaching interests

I teach modules in the areas of programming, data mining, digital health and data visualisation.

Teaching activities

INF114 - Communicating Data

Data Translation

INF4000 - Data Visualisation 

INF6032 - Big Data Analytics