Dangzhi Zhao, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, School of Library and Information Studies, University of Alberta

Dangzhi Zhao earned her Ph.D. from the School of Library & Information Studies at the Florida State University, and her MS and BS from the Department of Library and Information Science at Peking University.

Her research and teaching interests are in the areas of information systems, Bibliometrics, scholarly communication, and knowledge network analysis and visualization. Major research projects completed include the design and implementation of a Web-based information system for the publishing industry in China (1996-1998), and the comparison of scholarly communication between the Web and the print world (2000-2003). Supported by a $104,820 three-year (2008-2011) Standard Research Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada, her recent research concentrates on knowledge network analysis and visualization and their application in information retrieval and digital libraries.