Dr. Zhixiang Chen
Professor
Graduate Program Coordinator
Edinburg: EIEAB 3.241
956-665-2857
zhixiang.chen@utrgv.edu
Bio
Dr. Chen received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Boston University in January 1996. He taught at Southwest State University from Fall 1995 to September 1997. He also studied at the University of Illinois and worked and studied at Huazhong University of Science and Technology. His research interests include Intelligent Web Search, Computational Complexity Theory, Computational Learning Theory, Informational Retrieval, Data Mining and Web Mining, Algorithms, and Bioinformatics. He has taught a wide range of computer science courses.
Dr. Chen served as the Chair of the Computer Science Department at UTPA from January 2006 to May 2016, the Interim Computer Science Chair at UTRGV from May 2015 to May 2017, and the Associate Director for Research for the UTPA Computing and Information Technology Center (CITEC) for over 10 years. Since June 1, 2017, he has been the Graduate Program Coordinator for UTRGV MSCS and MSIT programs.
Education
- PhD, Computer Science, Boston University, 1996
- MS, Software Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 1988
- BS, Software Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 1982
Courses Taught
CSCI 1380 Computer Science I (Pascal)
CSCI 2380 Computer Science II (Pascal/C++)
CSCI 3300 Internship in Computer Science
CSCI 3310 Mathematical Foundations Of Computer Science
CSCI 3327 Object Oriented Programming
CSCI 3333 Algorithms & Data Structures
CSCI 4333 Database Design and Implementation
CSCI 4341 Topics in Computer Science: Programming in Python
CSCI 4390 Senior Project
CSCI 6174 Open Problem in Computer Science
CSCI 6180 Problems in Computer Science
CSCI 6315 Applied Database Systems
CSCI 6333 Advanced Database Design and Implementation
CSCI 6366 Data Mining & Warehouse
CSCI 6370 Topics in Computer Science: Web Search Engines and Information Retrieval
CSCI 6381 Independent Research & Study
CSCI 6390 Masters Project