Haoxuan Zhang

HaoxuanZhang@my.unt.edu

Ph.D. student
University of North Texas

ResearchGate/ Google Scholar/ CV

I'm a Ph.D. student in Information Science (Focus on Data Science) at the University of North Texas. I am a member of the Intelligent Data Engineering and Analytics (IDEA) Lab, supervised by Prof. Haihua Chen and Prof. Ting Xiao. My research interests are primarily in innovation measurement, large language models, AI4Science.

Education

Ph.D. in Information Science (Focus on Data Science), 2024 - continuing
University of North Texas, USA
M.S. in Library and Information Science, 2021.09 – 2024.06
Central China Normal University, China
B.S. in Electronic Business, 2017.09 – 2021.06
Central China Normal University, China

Publications

Pre-print:
Zhang, H., Li, R., Zhang, Y., Xiao, T., Chen, J., Ding, J., & Chen, H. (2025). The Evolving Role of Large Language Models in Scientific Innovation: Evaluator, Collaborator, and Scientist. ArXiv.org. https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11810
Journal Articles:
[J4] Wang, Z., Na, Wang., Zhang, H. et al. (2025). IBID-CCT: A novel model for interdisciplinary breakthrough innovation detection based on the cusp catastrophe theory. Information Processing & Management.
[J3] Wang, Z., Zhang, H., Chen, J., & Chen, H. (2024). An effective framework for measuring the novelty of scientific articles through integrated topic modeling and cloud model. Journal of Informetrics.
[J2] Wang, Z., Zhang, H., Chen, H., Feng, Y., & Ding, J. (2024). Content-based quality evaluation of scientific papers using coarse feature and knowledge entity network. Journal of King Saud University - Computer and Information Sciences.
[J1] Wang, Z., Qiao, X., Chen, J., Li, L., Zhang, H., Ding, J., & Chen, H. (2024). Exploring and evaluating the index for interdisciplinary breakthrough innovation detection. The Electronic Library.

Teaching

Summer 2025: Research Assistant in The UNT AI/CS Summer Research Program
Spring 2025: Teaching Assistant in DTSC 5502 Section 401 - Principles and Techniques for Data Science
Fall 2024: Teaching Assistant in DTSC 5502 Section 401 - Principles and Techniques for Data Science

Professional Service

Conference Organizing Committee:
Website Chair of the First International Workshop on Data Mining and AI for Law (ICDM2025)
Website Chair of the First Integrated Approaches to Testing Data-Centric AI Systems: Methods, Metrics, and Benchmarks (AIxSoftware2025)
Website Chair of the 2nd Workshop on Innovation Measurement for Scientific Communication (IMSC) in the Era of Big Data (JCDL2024)
Website Chair of the 1st Workshop on Utilizing AI/ML to Enhance Information Extraction, Organization, and Retrieval from Large-scale Archival Collections (JCDL2024)
Website Chair of the 1st Workshop on Innovation Measurement for Scientific Communication (IMSC) in the Era of Big Data (JCDL2023)
Journal reviewer:
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (2025-present)
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (2025-present)
The Electronic Library (2024-present)
Data Intelligence (2024-present)
Reviewer for Conferences and Workshops:
ICDM 2025
EMNLP 2025
ACL 2025
JCDL Workshop (IMSC 2024)

Awards

Excellent Master's Thesis, Central China Normal University, 2024
Excellent Graduate Student, Central China Normal University, 2022