Kai Zhao is an assistant professor of AI and Machine Learning at the Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University. He has 15 years of research experience in machine learning and 9 years of working experience post-Ph.D. in Machine Learning, encompassing Deep Learning, NLP, Generative AI, Multimodal AI, and Machine Learning Infrastructure. 

He has led 20+ machine learning projects and collaborated with tech industry leaders including Uber, Cox Enterprise, Starr, TLC, etc., contributing to multimillion-dollar revenue generation. He has extensive experience in large-scale machine learning engineering, handling billion-level data samples on cloud platforms including AWS and GCP.

He has published 37 top AI and machine learning journals and conference proceedings, including IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on Big Data, IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, ACM Transactions on Data Science, Knowledge-Based Systems, Nature Scientific Reports, Information Sciences, AAAI, KDD, IJCAI, EMNLP, CIKM, ICDM, and BigData. He also won the best paper award (1 in 150 submissions) at MobiQuitous in 2019 (A-level CS conference by CORE CS ranking). His Google Scholar profile lists over 1,000 citations, including citations by articles in premier journals such as Nature and Nature Human Behaviour. 

Because of his research contribution to the machine learning field, he has been invited to serve as an associate editor at Electronic Commerce Research (Springer). His research has been featured in various major media outlets, including The Economist.