Dr. Xiaokun Zhang

Biography

Associate Professor, School of Computing and Information Systems, Athabasca University, since 2001.7 Nortel Research Fellow, Intelligent System Group, University of Calgary, 2000.4-2001.6 Visiting Professor, Intelligent System Laboratory, Dept. of Industrial Engineering, University of Iowa, USA, 1997.5-1997-10 Professor, Industrial Automation Division, College of Mechatronic Engineering, NPU, Xi'an, China, 1996.9-1998.3 Associate Professor, Industrial Automation Division, NPU, 1991.12-1996.8 Lecture and Assistant Professor, Industrial Automation Division, NPU, 1986.3-1991.11

Research Interest

The research areas include collaboration technology and systems, knowledge-based software and semantics technology for adaptive learning, compositional theory and technology for real-time systems and control system applications. Current research interests or projects focus on the following aspects in the areas: 1. Analysis, modeling, and architecture design of collaborative and virtual organization for sharing and retrieving user generated contents in collaborative learning; use of aspect-oriented approach in collaborative software learning; analysis of hypergraph models for behavioral and contextual semantics in collaboration systems; analysis and design of human-machine collaborative interaction and adaptive interface. 2. Design and analysis of self-regulated learning for software programming and language training; analysis and design of software execution semantics and ontology to enhance knowledge sharing for learning programming languages. 3. Use of compositional theory and interface semantics technology in real-time systems for the development of function block based control applications.