Yilu Zhou

Is an assistant professor in the Department of Information Systems and Technology Management at George Washington University.

Her research focuses on web mining and text mining technology as well as their applications in business intelligence, scientific fields and intelligence and security informatics domain.

Her current research can be categorized into several domains: (1) multilingual knowledge discovery through cross-lingual information retrieval and name transliteration; (2) intelligence and security informatics research; (3) social media-based cultural difference analysis; and (4) strategic alliance extraction and analysis using web and text mining methods.

She has published in journals such as IEEE Intelligent Systems, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Decision Support Systems, and International Journal of Human-Computer Studies.

She received a Ph.D. in Management of Information System from the University of Arizona, where she was also a research associate of the Artificial Intelligence Lab. She received a B.S. in Computer Science from Shanghai Jiaotong University.