Kai Zhao
Kai Zhao, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, AI & Machine Learning
Robinson College of Business
Georgia State University.
Email: kaizhaofrank@gmail.com
Short bio:
15 years of research experience in Machine Learning.
9 years of working experience post-Ph.D. in Machine Learning, encompassing Deep Learning, NLP, Generative AI, Multimodal AI, and Machine Learning Infrastructure.
Led 20+ machine learning projects and collaborated with tech industry leaders including Uber, Cox Enterprise, Starr, and TLC etc., contributing to multimillion-dollar revenue generation.
Authored 37 top-tier machine learning publications, including AAAI, KDD, EMNLP, IJCAI, TKDE, TVCG, TCSS, TBD, CIKM, among others.
Extensive experience in large-scale machine learning engineering, handling billion-level data samples on cloud platforms including AWS and GCP.
Working Experience
Assistant Professor, AI and Machine Learning, Georgia State University, GA 2017-
Robinson College of Business
Post-doc, Machine Learning, New York University, NY. 2015-2017
Collaborate with Prof. Claudio Silva (IEEE Fellow, Professor), Prof. Juliana Freire (ACM Fellow, AAAS Fellow, Professor), and Prof. Huy Vo.
Education
Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Helsinki, Finland 2015
Top 100 Global University according to US News
~ U.S. Top 30 universities
Adviser: Prof. Sasu Tarkoma, Dean of the School of Science
BSc., Computer Science, Shandong University, China 2009