Polo Chau
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Polo Chau
Director of Industry Relations, Institute for Data Engineering and Science
Professor
Associate Director, MS in Analytics
Duen Horng Chau is a Professor in the School of Computational Science and Engineering in the College of Computing at Georgia Tech. He co-directs Georgia Tech's MS Analytics program. He is the Director of Industry Relations of The Institute for Data Engineering and Science (IDEaS), and the Associate Director of Corporate Relations of The Center for Machine Learning. His research group bridges machine learning and visualization to synthesize scalable interactive tools for making sense of massive datasets, interpreting complex AI models, and solving real world problems in cybersecurity, human-centered AI, graph visualization and mining, and social good. His Ph.D. in Machine Learning from Carnegie Mellon University won CMU's Computer Science Dissertation Award, Honorable Mention.
He received 17 best paper type awards and published 200+ refereed articles across machine learning and visualization venues. He received prestigious faculty awards (Google, Meta, Intel), GT-wide Senior Faculty Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentor Award, and Outstanding Mid-Career Faculty Award. His work has been deployed by Google, Microsoft, Meta, Nvidia, ADP, NortonLifeLock, and Atlanta Fire Rescue Department. His students won PhD fellowships (Google, Apple, IBM, JPMorgan, NASA, NSF). He teaches 1,000+ students each semester.
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KACB 1324
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Data Mining & Analytics; Machine Learning; Threat Intelligence; Cyber/ Information Technology; Computer Interaction; Cybersecurity; Visualization;
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