Dake Zhang

Dake Zhang is a faculty member at the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo. His research focuses on reducing health misinformation through search systems, leveraging artificial intelligence and information retrieval techniques to improve online health information quality.

• Key collaborations with Mark D. Smucker, Amir Vakili Tahami, and Mustafa Abualsaud
• Active participant in TREC Health Misinformation Tracks (2021-2023)
• Developed ReadProbe system for lateral reading support using OpenAI models and Bing search

His work demonstrates expertise in:

• Information retrieval systems for health domains
• Mitigating cognitive biases in search
• Transformer-based document analysis
• Automated answer prediction from web sources
• Search engine credibility modeling
• Human-AI interaction in information verification