Zhu, Zack

Zack's current interest lies in making sense of large, real-world datasets via curent computing techniques. Recently, he has been mining social networks and trying to leverage "social" and "local" for ubiquitous activity recognition. He is currently working on the SmartDAYS project in the Wearable Computing Lab. In the past, he studied intelligent systems for robotics and heuristic-based optimization techniques.

Zack completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Waterloo in Systems Design Engineering. As part of his studies, he completed various internships in the US and Canada at organizations such as Sun Microsystems Laboratories (now Oracle Labs), Defence R&D Canada, and Research In Motion. Upon graduation, he continued his studies at ETH Zurich with a masters in Computational Science and Engineering. During this time, he exchanged at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. In 2011, he completed his master thesis analyzing the YouTube social network at Google Zurich.

Publications

2012

• Real-Time Detection of Freezing of Gait for Parkinson's Disease patients via Smartphone
  Zack Zhu, Sinziana Mazilu, Michael Hardegger, Meir Plotnik, Jeffrey M Hausdorff, Daniel Roggen and Gerhard Tröster
  in: Adjunct Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Pervasive Computing (Pervasive 2012), Newcastle, United Kingdom, 2012
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• The YouTube Social Network
  Mirjam Wattenhofer, Roger Wattenhofer and Zack Zhu
  in: Proceedings of the Sixth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2012), Dublin, Ireland, 2012
  [ BiBTeX RIS URL ]