Dr. Zhao, Gang (赵刚)

Dr. Zhao, Gang (赵刚) earned his degrees of MSc and PhD in computer science at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology , UK .

He has been mostly involved in R&D of intelligent system development since 1990. He has been a system programmer, analyst, architect for the system development as machine translation, natural language understanding, speech recognition, information extraction, data and text mining, case tools for database modeling, dialogue systems, rule-based inference engines, human resource management system, patient record management system. He has acted as technology lead and project manager in both industrial and academic institutions for product development as well as research programs such as IST projects. He has taught on distributed system development at the Department of Math and Computing the Open University, UK and worked as senior researcher at STARLab, Department of Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium. He has researched and published on computational linguistics, knowledge systems, ontology development and applications. He is consulting to private and public institutions in Belgium on competence-based job portals, information extraction, text mining and ontology-based information management in product development and European research programs.