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Zhendong Wang

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Postdoc

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Division of Information Science and Engineering

Unit address
Malvinas Väg 10
E-mail
zhwang@kth.se
Room
A:419

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About me

Postdoctoral Researcher at Division of Information Science and Engineering (ISE) at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) of KTH Royal Institute of Technology.

Research Interests:

  • EXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)

  • Temporal data mining

  • Machine Learning for healthcare

Teaching Activities:

  • Guest Lecturer on theInterpretability and Actionability – Counterfactual Explanations topic for the Research Topics in Data Science (DAMI II)course, DSV, Stockholm University, 2023-2024.

  • Master/Bachelor thesis supervision (3 MSc theses and 3 BSc theses), DSV, Stockholm University, 2022-2024.

  • Teaching assistant for the Research Topics in Data Science (DAMI II)course, 2022-2024.

  • Computer lab assistant for courses as follows, Linköping University, 2017-2018:

    • 732A95 (Introduction to Machine Learning)

    • TBMI26 (Neural Network and Learning Systems)

    • 732A90 (Computational Statistics)

Research Projects:

  • A3S: AI-based Asthma App using Spirometer (2025-Present)

  • EXTREMUM: Explainable and Ethical Machine Learning for Knowledge Discovery from Medical Data Sources (2020-2024)

Recent Publications:

  • Z. Wang, I. Samsten, I. Miliou, R. Mochaourab, and P. Papapetrou, “Glacier: guided locally constrained counterfactual explanations for time series classification,”Machine Learning, vol. 113, no. 3, Mar. 2024, doi: 10.1007/s10994-023-06502-x.

  • Z. Wang, I. Samsten, I. Miliou, and P. Papapetrou, “COMET: Constrained Counterfactual Explanations for Patient Glucose Multivariate Forecasting,” in2024 IEEE 37th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS), Jun. 2024, pp. 502–507. doi: 10.1109/CBMS61543.2024.00089.

  • Z. Wang, I. Miliou, I. Samsten, and P. Papapetrou, “Counterfactual Explanations for Time Series Forecasting,” in2023 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), Dec. 2023, pp. 1391–1396. doi: 10.1109/ICDM58522.2023.00180.

  • Z. Wang, I. Samsten, V. Kougia, and P. Papapetrou, ‘Style-transfer counterfactual explanations: An application to mortality prevention of ICU patients’,Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, p. 102457, Nov. 2022, doi: 10.1016/j.artmed.2022.102457.

  • Z. Wang, I. Samsten, R. Mochaourab, and P. Papapetrou, ‘Learning Time Series Counterfactuals via Latent Space Representations’, inDiscovery Science, Cham, 2021, pp. 369–384. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-88942-5_29. PDF preview: https://rdcu.be/cze5Y.

  • Z. Wang, I. Samsten, and P. Papapetrou, ‘Counterfactual Explanations for Survival Prediction of Cardiovascular ICU Patients’, inArtificial Intelligence in Medicine, Cham, 2021, pp. 338–348. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-77211-6_38. PDF preview: https://rdcu.be/cmfbO. (Best Student Paper Award)

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