October 2007 -- 2010: co-PI: "Personalization of Digital Library Experience," funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, $964,886.00.

June 2004 -- 2006: PI: "Experiment and Evaluation of Digital Library Performance," funded by the IEEE, Inc., $107,000. For detailed information on this project, please visit: http://xzhang.rutgers.edu/~ieee/

July 2005 -- May 2006: PI: "Task Difficulty and Personality in Collaborative Information Retrieval." Rutgers University, Research Council Grant Award, $2,600.

July 2004 -- May 2005: PI: "Information Retrieval Supporting sharing of Expertise." Rutgers University, Research Council Grant Award, $1,800.

July 2003 -- May 2004: "Prototyping a User Model-Based Information System." Rutgers University, Research Council Grant Award, $1,700.

2003 -- 2004: "Testing the Effectiveness of Collaborative Filtering for Information Retrieval Systems in a Virtual Laboratory: A Pilot Study." Rutgers University, Information Science & Technology Council Grant Award, $24,786. For detailed information on this project, please visit: http://xzhang.rutgers.edu:8080/isatc.

2001 -- 2002: "Representing and Using People's Subject Domain Knowledge to Optimize Information Retrieval Results." Wayne State University Small Research Grant, $950.

December 1986 -- August 1988
Participated in a project to design an integrated information system for the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences that included academic administration subsystems, bibliographic information retrieval subsystems, and library automation systems. The project was sponsored by the Academy.

May 1985 -- March 1987
Member of a team which designed a software system for automatic indexing and retrieval of scientific and technological literature in Chinese (SAIRSTLC, one of the first practical Chinese information retrieval systems in China). Used rule-based AI techniques. The project was supported by the State Educational Commission of China. The software was PC-based and was coded in COBOL. A report, An Overview of the System of SAIRSTLC, a description of the system was published in the Journal of Chinese Information Science (in Chinese).

July 1985 -- Feb. 1986
Worked on a project as member of a team that examined that administrative structures for different types of state economic information systems. Sponsored by the State Planning Commission of China. A final research report title as Analysis of Reflections on the Management Structure of the State Economic Information Systems /em> was published internally.