Zunping Cheng
Biography
- Research Interests:
Biography
Zunping Cheng is Ph.D. student in School of Computer Science and Informatics at University College Dublin, Ireland, under the supervision of Dr. Neil Hurley. He received his B.Sc and M.Sc. degrees in Computer Science from Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
He worked for Hewlett-Packard Company (China) as a technical consultant from 2006 to 2007.
Professional
PC Member:
- The 5th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2011)
- The 4th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2010)
Honours & Awards:
2006
- Top 10 Talents honored by HP (China)
- Shanghai Excellent Graduate by Shanghai Municipal Education Commission
2005
- Shanghai Outstanding Student by Shanghai Municipal Education Commission
- Sybase Scholarship awarded by Sybase (China).
- Second-Class Scholarship awarded by Fudan University.
- The champion team member of Fudan in “Global Business Ethics Case Study Competition” by Johnson & Johnson
2004
- First-Class Scholarship awarded by Fudan University.
- OOCL Scholarship awarded by Orient Overseas Container Line Ltd.
- IBM Scholarship awarded by IBM (China).
- Outstanding Student honored by Fudan University.
2000
- Third place in IBM Inter-University WebSphere Application Design Contest (China) by IBM (China)
Qualifications:
- IBM Certified Solutions Expert: DB2 UDB v5 Database Administrator
- IBM Certified Solutions Expert: WebSphere Studio v3
Publications
Refereed Journal Papers
- Zunping Cheng, Ding Zhou, Chen Wang, Haofeng Zhou, Wei Wang, Baile Shi, SDPHC:A Density-based Partitioning and Hierarchical Clustering Algorithm, Journal of Computer Research and Development, Volume 41, Number 10, 2004.
- Haofeng Zhou, Qingqing Yuan, Zunping Cheng, Baile Shi, PHC: A Fast Partition & Hierarchy-based Clustering Algorithm, Journal of Computer Science and Technology, Volume 18, Number 3, 2003. (download)
Refereed Conference Papers
- Zunping Cheng, Neil Hurley: Robust Collaborative Recommendation by Least Trimmed Squares Matrix Factorization. The 22th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI 2010, Accepted), Arras, France, 2010.
- Zunping Cheng, Neil Hurley: Analysis of Robustness in Trust-based Recommender Systems. The 9th international conference on Adaptivity, Personalization and Fusion of Heterogeneous Information, Paris, France, 2010. (download)
- Zunping Cheng, Neil Hurley: Effective Diverse and Obfuscated Attacks on Model-based Recommender Systems. The 3rd ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2009), New York, USA, 2009. (download)
- Neil Hurley, Zunping Cheng, Mi Zhang: Statistical Attack Detection. The 3rd ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2009), New York, USA, 2009. (download)
- Zunping Cheng, Neil Hurley: Robustness Analysis of Model-based Collaborative Filtering Systems. Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science (AICS 2009), Dublin, Ireland, 2009. (download)
- Zunping Cheng, Neil Hurley: Trading Robustness for Privacy in Decentralized Recommender Systems. The Twenty-First Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI/IAAI 2009), Pasadena, USA, 2009. (download)
- Min Yang, Shao-yin Huang, Zhi Wang, Zunping Cheng, PICC: A Secure Mobile Agent Framework Based on Garbled Circuit, The 19th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA 2005), Taipei, Taiwan, 2005.
- Jun Tang, Zunping Cheng, Jian Xu, Wei Wang, Baile Shi, GSAF: A Grid-based Automated Allocation and Load Service Framework, The 23rd National Database Conference of China, Hohehot, China, 2005.
- Jiankui Guo, Beijun Ruan, Zunping Cheng, et al., A Top-Down Algorithm for Mining Web Access Patterns from Web Logs, The 9th Pacific-Asia Conference on Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2005), Hanoi, Vietnam, 2005.
- Mi Zhang, Zunping Cheng, et al., A Security Model Design in Web Service Environment, The 5th International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (CIT 2005), Shanghai, China, 2005.
- Mi Zhang, Jianjun Xu, Zunping Cheng, A Web Service-based Framework for Supply Chain Management, The 8th IEEE International Symposium on Object-Oriented Real Time Distributed Computing (ISORC 2005), Seattle, WA, USA, 2005.
- Zunping Cheng, CLINCH: Clustering Incomplete High-Dimensional Data for Data Mining Application, The 7th Asia-Pacific Web Conference (APWeb 2005), Shanghai, China, 2005. (download)
- Ding Zhou, Zunping Cheng, et al., SUDEPHIC: Self-tuning Density-based Partitioning and Hierarchical Clustering, The 9th International Conference on Database Systems for Advances Applications (DASFAA 2004), Jeju Island, Korea, 2004.
- Min Yang, Zunping Cheng, et al., iOmS: An Agent-based P2P Framework for Ubiquitous Workflow, The 3rd International Conference on Grid and Cooperative Computing (GCC 2004), Wuhan, China, 2004.
- Ning Shang, Min Yang, Zunping Cheng, et al., IPMA: A Mobile-Agent-based P2P Pervasive Workflow Model, The 21st National Database Conference of China, Xiamen, China, 2004.
- Zunping Cheng, et al., Research on SOAP-based XML Security Schemas, The 20th National Database Conference of China (NDBC 2003), Changsha, China, 2003.
- Peng Wang, Zhen Liu, Jin Pan, Zunping Cheng, OSBNC:A Fast Bayesian Network Classification Algorithm, The 20th National Database Conference of China (NDBC 2003), Changsha, China, 2003.
Research
- Recommender Systems
- Social Network
- Data Mining
Teaching
TA / Demonstrator:
- COMP 30090: Operating Systems I
- COMP 30040: Networks and Internet Systems
- COMP 30030: Introduction to Aritifical Intelligence
- COMP 20050: Software Engineering Project II (Java)
- COMP 20020: Digital Systems
- COMP 20010: Data Structures and Algorithms (Java)
- COMP 10060: First Engineering Computer Science (C)

