Zheng publishes referred papers frequently as a leading author at prestigious conferences and journals, such as KDD, IJCAI, AAAI, VLDB, UbiComp, and IEEE TKDE. Those papers have been cited over 49,000 times (Google Scholar H-Index: 98 by Sept. 2023). He received SIGKDD 2022 Test-of-Time Award, the 10-Year Impact Award from ACM SIGSPATIAL three times in 2019, 2020 and 2022 respectively, the Test-of-Time Award from IEEE MDM 2023, and five best paper awards from ICDE’13 and ACM SIGSPATIAL’10, etc. He has been invited to give keynote speeches at international conferences and forums (e.g. AAAI 2019, KDD 2019 Plenary Keynote Panel, IJCAI 2019 Industrial Days, MDM 2021 and SSTD2021) and guest lectures in universities like MIT, CMU, and Cornell. His book, titled “Computing with Spatial Trajectories”, has been used as a text book in universities worldwide and honored as the Top 10 Most Popular Computer Science Book authored by Chinese at Springer. His monograph, entitled "Urban Computing" (MIT Press), is the first text book in this field.