Dr. Wenbin Zhang is an Assistant Professor in the Knight Foundation School of Computing & Information Sciences at Florida International University, and an Associate Member at the Te Ipu o te Mahara Artificial Intelligence Institute. His research investigates the theoretical foundations of machine learning with a focus on societal impact and welfare. In addition, he has worked in a number of application areas, highlighted by work on healthcare, digital forensics, geophysics, energy, transportation, forestry, and finance. He is a recipient of best paper awards/candidates at ECML PKDD'25, FAccT’23, ICDM’23, DAMI, and ICDM’21, as well as the NSF CRII Award and recognition in the AAAI’24 New Faculty Highlights. He also regularly serves on conference organizing committees and journal editorial boards across computer science and interdisciplinary venues, including as Travel Award Chair for AAAI'25, Volunteer Chair for WSDM’24, Associate Editor for ACM Computing Surveys, and Action Editor for Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.    

2020 Ph.D., University of Maryland, Baltimore County