Zhuang, Mengdie, Dr

Dr Mengdie Zhuang

PhD (Sheffield), PGCert (Sheffield), SFHEA

School of Information, Journalism and Communication

Lecturer in Data Science

m.zhuang@sheffield.ac.uk

Room C223, The Wave

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Dr Mengdie Zhuang
School of Information, Journalism and Communication
Room C223
The Wave
2 Whitham Road
Sheffield
S10 2AH

Profile: Mengdie is a lecturer in Data Science in the School of Information, Journalism and Communication. 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

Allcock JA, Zhuang M, Li S & Zhao X (2024) . JMIR Formative Research, 8.
Allcock JA, Zhuang M, Li S & Zhao X (2023) . JMIR Formative Research.
Zhuang M, Concannon D & Manley E (2022) . IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 28(4), 1715-1731.
Ross S, Breckenridge G, Zhuang M & Manley E (2021) . Scientific Reports, 11(1).
Manley E, Ross S & Zhuang M (2021) . Findings.
Budd J, Miller BS, Manning EM, Lampos V, Zhuang M, Edelstein M, Rees G, Emery VC, Stevens MM, Keegan N , Short MJ et al (2020) . NATURE MEDICINE, 26(8), 1183-1192.
Liu X, Zhang J, Zhou S, van der Plas TL, Vijayaraghavan A, Grishina A, Zhuang M, Schofield D, Tomlinson C, Wang Y , Li R et al () . Nature Machine Intelligence.

Gadiraju U & Zhuang M (2019) , Human–Computer Interaction Series (pp. 163-188). Springer International Publishing

La Barbera D, Lunardi R, Zhuang M & Roitero K (2025) . Proceedings of the 2025 International ACM SIGIR Conference on Innovative Concepts and Theories in Information Retrieval (ICTIR) (pp 12-21)
Xu L, Zhuang M & Gadiraju U (2021) . Proceedings of the 29th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (pp 240-244)
Zhuang M & Gadiraju U (2019) . Proceedings of the 10th ACM Conference on Web Science (pp 373-382)
Zhuang M, Toms EG & Demartini G (2018) . Proceedings of the 27th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (pp 1507-1510)
Zhuang M, Demartini G & Toms EG (2017) . Proceedings of the 2017 ACM on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (pp 1957-1966)
Zhuang M (2017) . Proceedings of the 25th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (pp 343-346)
Zhuang M (2016) . Proceedings of the 39th International ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (pp 1179-1179)
Zhuang M, Toms E & Demartini G (2016) . Advances in Information Retrieval (pp 293-305). Padua, Italy, 20 March 2016 - 20 March 2016.
Zhuang M, Toms EG & Demartini G (2016) Search behaviour before and after search success. Ceur Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 1647

Liu X, Zhang J, Zhou S, van der Plas TL, Vijayaraghavan A, Grishina A, Zhuang M, Schofield D, Tomlinson C, Wang Y , Li R et al (2025) , arXiv.
Zhuang M, Concannon D & Manley E (2020) , arXiv.
Bennett I, Budd J, Manning EM, Manley E, Zhuang M, Cox IJ, Short M, Johnson AM, Pillay D & McKendry RA (2020) , arXiv.

Grants

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