Dr. Jia Zhang is currently an Associate Professor of the Computer Science department of Northern Illinois University. Dr. Zhang obtained her Ph.D. degree from the Computer Science Department of the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2000, and MS and BS degrees from the Computer Science Department of Nanjing University, China.

Dr. Zhang’s current research interests center around Services Computing, with a focus on Internet-centric collaboration, service-oriented architecture, data management, QoS testing, and model-driven variation propagation analysis.

Dr. Zhang is serving as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC), International Journal of Web Services Research (JWSR), and The Advances in Web Services Research Book Series, IGI Global. She is Program Vice Chair of IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS). Dr. Zhang also served on and am serving on other international journals/magazines and conference program committees.

Dr. Zhang also has rich industry experience. She submitted several patents and has architected many information system projects.