She is a professor at the University of Arizona, in the Department of Mathematics, Statistics Interdisciplinary Program, and Applied Mathematics Interdisciplinary Program there.
[1] With Bertrand Clarke and Ernest Fokoué, she is the author of the book Principles and Theory for Data Mining and Machine Learning.
[2] Zhang earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1996 from Peking University.
[1] Her dissertation, supervised by Grace Wahba, was Nonparametric Variable Selection and Model Building Via Likelihood Basis Pursuit.
[3] She joined the Department of Statistics at North Carolina State University in 2002, and moved to Arizona in 2011.