Dr. Zhu and his students published at top machine learning, natural language processing, and artificial intelligence conferences and journals such as ICML, ACL, IJCAI, JAIR, IEEE/ACM TASLP, JASIST, JAMIA, NAACL, EACL, IPM, etc. His recent work has received the Adam Kilgarriff *SEM Best Paper Award for Lexical Semantics.

Recently he serves as a Chair for The 33rd Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence. He serves for ACL '19 Best Paper Award Committee. He has been as an Associate Editor for the Computational Intelligence journal since 2015. Dr. Zhu is Co-Chair for SemEval '20, '19; Publication Chair for COLING '18; Area Chair for ACL '19, '18, EMNLP '19, NAACL '19, and COLING '18; Workshop Chair for COLING '20. He is an active reviewer for NIPS, AAAI, AISTATS, IJCAI, ACL, TKDE, EMNLP, ICASSP, TASLP, COLING, JBI, ICASSP, INTERSPEECH, ect.

Dr. Zhu was an Evaluation Group Member of NSERC Discovery Grants (Computer Science Group, 2017), Canada. He also served as an external reviewer for government grants such as Discovery Grants, Industrial Research & Development Fellowship, Research Support for New Academics (Québec), General Research Fund (Hong Kong), and Faculty Development Scheme (Hong Kong). He also helped review startup companies' proposals (e.g., for CDL of University of Toronto).