Education      

        Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University

Research Areas

        Decision Support Systems, Data Mining, Knowledge Management

Research Interests

• Privacy-Preserving Data Mining

• Recommender Systems

• Choice Modeling

Center Affiliations:

Associate Professor, Center for Information Protection (Information Assurance Program)
Associate Professor, Center for Computational Intelligence, Learning, and Discovery 
Associate Professor, Human Computer Interaction

Associate Professor, Information Infrastructure Institute (ICube)

Dan Zhu is Associate Professor of  Information Systems and Computer Science at Iowa State University.   She received her Ph.D. in Information Systems from Carnegie Mellon University. Prior to joining the ISU, Dr. Zhu was an Assistant Professor in the College of Business at the University of Iowa.  Her research emphasizes the development and applications of computational and intelligent systems to solve a variety of business and management problems. Dr. Zhu has published papers in Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences, Information System Research, Decision Sciences, Annals of Statistics, Naval Research Logistics,  Annals of Operations Research, , Journal of Electronic Commerce Research, and other professional journals. She is a member of INFORMS and IEEE.