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**Meng Zhang** is a researcher and assistant professor at the ZJU-UIUC Institute, Zhejiang University. Zhejiang University's official personal profile lists him as a doctoral supervisor in the Zhejiang University-University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Institute and International Joint College.[^zju-profile]

## Biography

Zhang is associated in this wiki with [Zhejiang University](./Zhejiang_University.md) and the master's stage of [Xinbao Qiao](./Xinbao_Qiao.md). The official ZJU profile records his role as researcher/assistant professor and doctoral supervisor, and gives his affiliation as the ZJU-UIUC Institute and International Joint College. Within Qiao's wiki, the page is used as an academic-advisor entry rather than a full independent biography.

## Research

The ZJU profile lists Zhang's research areas as wireless and computer networks, edge intelligence, network economics, and intelligent IoT. These topics form a network-systems background that is close to several labels in this wiki, including [AI and networks](./AI_and_Networks.md), [distributed learning](./Distributed_Learning.md), and [Data Centric ML](./Data_Centric_Machine_Learning.md).

## Connection to Qiao

Zhang was Qiao's master's advisor during the Zhejiang University phase. The period is linked in this wiki to data-centric machine learning, machine unlearning, and data influence analysis. It includes work that later appears in Qiao's publication record, including [Hessian-Free Online Certified Unlearning](./Hessian_Free_Online_Certified_Unlearning.md) and [Beyond Binary Erasure: Soft-Weighted Unlearning for Fairness and Robustness](./Soft_Weighted_Machine_Unlearning.md).

## See also

- [Xinbao Qiao](./Xinbao_Qiao.md)
- [Zhejiang University](./Zhejiang_University.md)
- [Machine Unlearning](./Machine_Unlearning.md)
- [Data Centric ML](./Data_Centric_Machine_Learning.md)

[^zju-profile]: Zhejiang University's official profile for [Meng Zhang](https://person.zju.edu.cn/mengzhang) lists the position, affiliation, email address, and research directions used in this article.
