PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Zhongfei Zhang

Also known as Zhongfei Mark Zhang, Mark Zhang

Zhongfei “Mark” Zhang is a computer scientist at Binghamton University whose work on machine learning and data mining centers on multimedia and multimodal data. He earned degrees at Zhejiang University and a PhD at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, worked at the University at Buffalo, and joined Binghamton in 1999. His 2009 book Multimedia Data Mining and his 2010 book Relational Data Clustering came from CRC Press, and he coauthored a 2013 survey of appearance models for visual object tracking and a 2016 ICML paper on energy-based anomaly detection. IEEE made him a Fellow in 2020, and the International Association for Pattern Recognition followed in 2022. At Binghamton, he is a professor in the School of Computing and directs the Multimedia Research Laboratory.

Now at
Binghamton University and School of Computing

Timeline

  1. By 1999

    Joining the Binghamton faculty

    Zhang earns a BS in electronics engineering and an MS in information science at Zhejiang University, then a PhD in computer science at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. At the University at Buffalo he works as a research scientist at the Center of Excellence for Document Analysis and Recognition and on the computer science and engineering faculty, before joining the Binghamton faculty in fall 1999, where his primary research areas have been machine learning and data mining.

  2. 2009

    Multimedia Data Mining monograph

    In 2009, he and Ruofei Zhang publish Multimedia Data Mining: A Systematic Introduction to Concepts and Theory with CRC Press, which covers the theory and applications of multimedia data mining and is the first monograph on the subject.

  3. 2010

    Relational Data Clustering monograph

    With Bo Long and Philip S. Yu, he publishes the CRC Press monograph Relational Data Clustering: Models, Algorithms, and Applications in 2010, presenting models, algorithms and applications for relational data.

  4. 2013

    A survey of appearance models

    In 2013, he coauthors a survey of 2D appearance models for visual object tracking with Xi Li, Weiming Hu, Chunhua Shen, Anthony Dick and Anton van den Hengel. The survey splits appearance modeling into visual representation and statistical modeling.

  5. 2016

    Energy models for anomaly detection

    For ICML 2016, he coauthors Deep Structured Energy Based Models for Anomaly Detection with Shuangfei Zhai, Yu Cheng and Weining Lu. The models use the output of a deterministic deep neural network as the energy function and detect anomalies with the energy score or the reconstruction error.

  6. 2020

    Named an IEEE Fellow

    He is named an IEEE Fellow in the class of 2020 for contributions to multimodal data content understanding and mining.

  7. 2022

    An IAPR Fellowship

    The International Association for Pattern Recognition names him a Fellow in 2022 for contributions to data understanding and mining.

  8. As of October 2026

    Professor in the School of Computing

    He is a professor in Binghamton's School of Computing and directs its Multimedia Research Laboratory. In 2025, he gives a keynote at the International Conference on Image, Vision and Intelligent Systems on out-of-distribution learning, addressing high-confidence incorrect predictions by deep neural networks on inputs from unfamiliar distributions.

Career

  1. NowBinghamton UniversityProfessor
  2. NowSchool of ComputingDirector
  3. University at Buffalo, State University of New YorkResearch Scientist

Education

  1. Zhejiang UniversityBS
  2. University of Massachusetts AmherstPhD

From the biography.

  1. More people shaping AI studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology than at any other institutionIncludes Binghamton University. We estimate where the people shaping AI studied and where their careers led. Massachusetts Institute of Technology leads with 467 former students, including 291 recorded doctorates.
  2. The company share of AI researchers’ top papers was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974Includes Binghamton University. We estimate where the people shaping AI worked when their most-cited papers appeared: the company share was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974, and Google led all organizations in 2020–2024.
  3. Google has the highest combined h-index among AI organizationsIncludes University at Buffalo, State University of New York. We estimate that Google holds the highest combined h-index at 8,016, while universities account for 73% of the deduplicated total across AI organizations.
  4. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology trained or employed 44 of the 187 AI major-prize winners, more than any other universityIncludes University at Buffalo, State University of New York. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology trained or employed 44 of the 187 AI major-prize winners, more than any other university. We compare doctorate and 5+ year employment links, career timing and current workplaces for 187 major-prize and 1,111 best-paper winners.

Colleagues

People named in this biography, and people with dated positions at the same organization in the same years.

Sources and credits

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  1. Our Faculty | School of Computing | Binghamton University binghamton.edu. Checked 22 October 2026.
  2. Zhang named IEEE fellow for computer science research - Binghamton News binghamton.edu. Checked 22 October 2026.
  3. Multimedia Data Mining: A Systematic Introduction to Concepts and Theory - 1st Edition routledge.com. Checked 22 October 2026.
  4. Relational Data Clustering: Models, Algorithms, and Applications - 1st Edition routledge.com. Checked 22 October 2026.
  5. A Survey of Appearance Models in Visual Object Tracking arxiv.org. Checked 22 October 2026.
  6. Deep Structured Energy Based Models for Anomaly Detection arxiv.org. Checked 22 October 2026.
  7. Chronological List of IAPR Fellows iapr.org. Checked 22 October 2026.
  8. ICIVIS | Keynote Speakers 2025 icivis.net. Checked 22 October 2026.