Georgia Tech, College of Computing
polo chau portrait Polo CHAU
Legal name:
Duen Horng Chau
Associate Director, MS in Analytics
Associate Professor, School of Computational Science & Engineering
Machine Learning Area Leader, College of Computing
Georgia Tech
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Office: CODA 1321        404-385-7682

Positions

  1. May 2014 - Associate Director
    MS in Analytics, Georgia Tech
  2. Aug 2018 - Associate Professor
    School of Computational Science & Engineering, Georgia Tech
  3. Aug 2012 - Aug 2018 Assistant Professor
    School of Computational Science & Engineering, Georgia Tech
  4. Dec 2012 - Dec 2015 Adjunct Assistant Professor
    School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Tech

Education

  1. Aug 2012
     Ph.D. Machine Learning Carnegie Mellon University
    Thesis: Data Mining Meets HCI: Making Sense of Large Graphs
    Award: Carnegie Mellon SCS Dissertation Award, Honorable Mention
    Committee: Christos Faloutsos, Jason Hong, Niki Kittur, Jiawei Han (UIUC)
    Watch my defense video on YouTube.
  2. May 2010 M.S. Machine Learning Carnegie Mellon University
  3. Aug 2005 Masters of Human-Computer Interaction Carnegie Mellon University
  4. 2004 B.Eng. Information Engineering (Honors) The Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong
    Online Auction Fraud Detection
    Advisor: Prof. Soung-Chang Liew
  5. 2000 Diocesan Boys' School (high school) Hong Kong
    6.

Research Areas & Highlights

The Polo Club of Data Science is my research group. We innovate at the intersection of data mining and human-computer interaction (HCI) to synthesize scalable, interactive, and interpretable tools that amplify human’s ability to understand and interact with billion-scale data and machine learning models. Our current research thrusts: human-centered AI (interpretable, fair, safe AI; adversarial ML); large graph visualization and mining; cybersecurity; and social good (health, energy). Notable projects:
Comprehensive survey on visual analytics for deep learning (TVCG; presented at VAST'18) --- highly recommended for practitioners and new researchers.
GAN Lab: interactive visualization for playing with GAN, joint work with Google AI (VAST'18).
ShapeShifter: FIRST physical targeted attack on object detector! Self-driving cars beware! joint work with Intel Research (PKDD'18).
ActiVis: visual exploration of deep neural networks, deployed on Facebook's ML platform (VAST'17).
SHIELD: fast, practical defense for deep learning (KDD'18).
Visage: interactive visual graph querying, without writing complex code (see Visage in action); won SIGMOD'17 best demo, honorable mention. Vigor summarizes query results (VAST'17).
Firebird: award-winning (KDD'16), open-source project, helping Atlanta Fire Rescue Department predict fire risk and prioritize fire inspections.
Polonium and Aesop: malware detection using machine learning, over massive graph with 37 billion machine-file relationships; protects 120 million Symantec machines worldwide; both patented and deployed.
Apolo and Facets: mixed-initiative system (ML+vis) for making sense of large network data (watch a demo), by helping users incrementally find relevant and interestingly surprising subgraphs to explore, avoids overwhelming them.
Marco and NetProbe: award-winning fake review detection (SDM'14) and auction fraud detection (eBay) that fingers bad guys by identifying their suspicious transactions (appeared in Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and more

Conference Leadership

Program Co-chair
ACM Intelligent User Interfaces Conference (IUI) 2019
Co-Chair
KDD workshop on Interactive Data Exploration and Analytics (IDEA): 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
Co-organizer
IEEE VIS workshop on Visualization for AI Explainability (VISxAI): 2018, 2019
ICML workshop on Visualization for Deep Learning: 2016, 2017
Steering Committee
ACM Intelligent User Interfaces Conference
Steering Committee
USENIX Security and AI Networking Conference (ScAINet)
Co-chair
ACM Intelligent User Interfaces Conference (IUI) 2015
Publicity Chair
ACM WSDM Conference Series Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM) 2016
Publicity Chair
ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) 2014
Publicity Chair
IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) 2014

Awards & Honors (my students' awards)

2019
Intel Outstanding Researcher Award
2019
IDC 2019 Best Work-in-Progress, Honorable Mention
2018
Chinese CHI 2018 Best Poster
2018
KDD Audience Appreciation Award, Runner-up
2018
James D. Lester III Family Award. College of Computing, Georgia Tech.
2017
SIGMOD 2017 Best Demo, Honorable Mention
2016
KDD 2016 Applied Data Science Best Student Paper, Runner-up
2015
Google Faculty Research Award.
2015
Outstanding Junior Faculty Research Award. College of Computing, Georgia Tech.
2015-16
James Edenfield Faculty Fellowship, with Munmun De Choudhury (IC)
2014
Yahoo Faculty Research and Engagement Program (FREP) Award by Yahoo! Labs. (GT press releases 1 & 2)
2014-15
Raytheon Faculty Fellowship, with Rahul Basole (IC).
2014
SIAM Data Mining (SDM) 2014 Best Student Paper award
2014
LexisNexis Dean's Excellence Award
Fall 2014
Wearable Computing Center Mentoring Grant for CS undergraduate students Nathan Dass and Samuel Clarke
Spring 2014
Advisor of Mr. Zhiyuan (Jerry) Lin, for Sigma Xi Best Undergraduate Research Award.
F13, F16, S17
Recipient of "Thank-a-Teacher" where students honor great teachers.
2012
Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science Dissertation Award, Honorable Mention
2010
Open Source Software World Challenge, Silver Award (3rd place), for the PEGASUS project which mines billion-node graphs. U Kang, Duen Horng Chau, Christos Faloutsos
2009 - 2010
Symantec Research Labs Graduate Fellowship, covers full tuition and stipend (in addition to the previous fellowship). Re-selected, as one of the only three graduate students worldwide to receive the award.
2009
Yahoo! Key Scientific Challenges Award, in Information Retrieval, Algorithms, and Data Mining. Awarded as one of the 20 graduate student nationwide, with a gift of $5,000 unrestricted research fund.
2008 - 2009
Symantec Research Labs Graduate Fellowship, covers full tuition and stipend. Selected as one of the only two graduate students to receive the award. Featured on: The Wall Street Journal, MSN Money, CNNMoney.com, The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Fox Business, AOL Money & Finance, MSNBC Business.
2008
Winner, Symantec research competition (internal).
2006
Best Presentation Award, 3rd Place, PKDD'06.
2001, 2002, 2003
Dean's List
2002, 2003
Nominated for university scholarships

Industry Positions & Experiences

Summer 2014
eBay, Search Science   San Jose
Visiting Professor
Summer - Fall 2011
Google, Ads Backend Team   Mountain View, CA
Ph.D. Software Engineer Intern   Mentor: Dr. Arun Swami
Fall 2009
Symantec Research Labs   Los Angeles, CA
Ph.D. Research Intern   Mentor: Mr. Carey Nachenberg
Summer 2008
Symantec Research Labs   Los Angeles, CA
Ph.D. Research Intern   Mentor: Mr. Darren Shou
2005 - 2007
Carnegie Mellon University, Human-Computer Interaction Institute   Pittsburgh, PA
Research Associate   Supervisor: Prof. Brad Myers
Summer 2003
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Lightwave Communications Lab     Hong Kong
Undergraduate Research Assistant
2002 - 2007
Elfware Company   Hong Kong
System Consultant

Teaching

Courses
Data and Visual Analytics. CSE 6242 OAN, O01, O3, Fall 2018. Georgia Tech. 451 (as of Aug 24, 2018) OMS Analytics and OMS CS students
Data and Visual Analytics. CSE 6242 A, Q / CX 4242 A, Fall 2018. Georgia Tech. 226 students (22 UG)
Data and Visual Analytics. CSE 6242 OAN, Spring 2018. Georgia Tech. 89 OMS Analytics students
Data and Visual Analytics. CSE 6242 A, Q / CX 4242 A, Spring 2018. Georgia Tech. 200 students (45 UG)
Data and Visual Analytics. CSE 6242 A, Q / CX 4242 A, Fall 2017. Georgia Tech. 273 students (40 UG)
Data and Visual Analytics. CSE 6242 A, Q / CX 4242 A, Spring 2017. Georgia Tech. 214 students (29 UG)
Data and Visual Analytics. CSE 6242 A, Q / CX 4242 A, Fall 2016. Georgia Tech. 215 students (29 UG)
Bee-Snap, an undergraduate cross-semester VIP project course (Vertically Integrated Projects). ECE-2811-VV4, ECE-3811-VV4, ECE-3812-VV4, ECE-4811-VV4, ECE-4812-VV4. Fall'16. Georgia Tech. 14 students. Analyzes bee-flower interactions data at Georgia Tech and Atlanta for pollinator health. Co-taught with Jennifer Leavey, Bistra Dilkina, Jason Reidy.
Data and Visual Analytics. CSE 6242 A, Q / CX 4242 A, Spring 2016. Georgia Tech. 187 students (32 UG)
Bee-Snap, an undergraduate VIP project course. ECE-2811-VV4, ECE-3811-VV4, ECE-3812-VV4, ECE-4811-VV4, ECE-4812-VV4. Spring'16. Georgia Tech. 18 students. Co-taught with Jennifer Leavey, Bistra Dilkina, Jason Reidy.
Data and Visual Analytics. CSE 6242 A, Q, Q3 / CX 4242 A, Fall 2015. Georgia Tech. 146 students (32 UG)
Bee-Snap, an undergraduate VIP project course. ECE-2811-VV4, ECE-3811-VV4, ECE-3812-VV4, ECE-4811-VV4, ECE-4812-VV4. Fall'15. Georgia Tech. 10 students. Co-taught with Jennifer Leavey, Bistra Dilkina, Jason Reidy.
Data and Visual Analytics. CSE 6242 A, Q, Q3 / CX 4242 A, Spring 2015. Georgia Tech. 113 students (17 UG)
Data and Visual Analytics. CSE 6242 A, Q, Q3 / CX 4242 A, Fall 2014. Georgia Tech. 118 students (17 UG)
Computing for Data Analytics: Methods and Tools, CSE 6040, Fall 2014. Georgia Tech. Co-taught with Dr. Da Kuang.
Data and Visual Analytics, CSE 6242 A, Q3 / CX 4242 A, Spring 2014. Georgia Tech. 96 students (19 UG).
Introduction to Computational Science and Engineering. CSE 6001, Fall 2013, Georgia Tech. Co-taught with Rich Vuduc.
Data and Visual Analytics, CSE 6242 A / CS 4803 DVA, Spring 2013. Georgia Tech. 35 students.
Tutorials
HCI Meets Data Mining: Principles and Tools for Big Data Analytics. Polo Chau. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) 2014. Toronto, Canada. April 24-May 1, 2014.
Big Graph Mining for the Web and Social Media. U Kang, Leman Akoglu, Polo Chau. The 7th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM2014). New York City. February 24, 2014.
Big Graph Mining: Algorithms, Anomaly Detection, and Applications. U Kang, Leman Akoglu, Polo Chau. The 2013 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM). Niagra Falls, Canada, Aug 25-28, 2013.
PhD Consortium Mentor
IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData 2014)
Guest lectures
Information Visualization (CS7450). Instructor: Prof. Alex Endert. Fall 2014. Georgia Tech.
Data Mining for Malware Detection and Fraud Detection. Computing and Society (CS 4001). Instructor: Prof. Jimeng Sun. Spring 2014. Georgia Tech.
Web-scale malware detection & fraud detection, and Interactive graph exploration & mining for Massive Graph Analytics (CSE 8803 MGA). Instructor: Prof. David Bader. Fall 2012. Georgia Tech.
Data Warehousing and Data Mining for Database Applications (15-415).
Instructor: Prof. Christos Faloutsos. Spring 2012. Carnegie Mellon University.
Web Search for Science of the Web (15-396).
Instructor: Prof. Luis von Ahn, Brendan Meeder. Fall 2011. Carnegie Mellon University.
Making Sense of Large Networks for Sensemaking: Cognitive, Social, and Technical Perspectives (05-899).
Instructor: Prof. Niki Kittur. Spring 2011. Carnegie Mellon University.
Teaching Assistant
Science of the Web (15-396).
Instructor: Prof. Luis von Ahn, Brendan Meeder. Fall 2011. Carnegie Mellon University.
Multimedia Databases and Data Mining (15-826).
Instructor: Prof. Christos Faloutsos. Spring 2010. Carnegie Mellon University.

Outreach Invited Talks & Activities

August 6, 2018
Introduction to Machine Learning. Summer workshop on data and scientific computing, Georgia Tech
August 1, 2017
Introduction to Machine Learning. Summer workshop on data and scientific computing, Georgia Tech
March 6, 2017
10 Lessons Learned from Working with Tech Companies. Undergraduate Consulting Club, Georgia Tech
April 16, 2016
10 Lessons Learned from Working with Tech Companies. Hacklytics, organized by Georgia Tech undergraduate students.
June 16, 2015
The Internet of Things (IoT) Joins the Enterprise: Strategies for Managing & Using All That Data. All Analytics Academy.
May 21, 2015
Catching Bad Guys with Graph Mining and Visualization. Center of Academic Excellence (NSA)
June 13, 2014
Graph Mining meets Human-Computer Interaction. DIMACS REU Tutorial. Rutgers University.
Jun 20, 2013
Making sense of big data: combining data mining and visualization Teachers Workshop (CS Principles - Big Ideas), organized by Institute for Computing Education (ICE), a partnership between the Georgia Department of Education and the College of Computing at Georgia Tech.

Publications

Latest & Greatest
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ShapeShifter: Robust Physical Adversarial Attack on Faster R-CNN Object Detector. Shang-Tse Chen, Cory Cornelius, Jason Martin, Duen Horng (Polo) Chau. PKDD 2018. Sept 10–14, 2018. Dublin, Ireland.
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GAN Lab: Understanding Complex Deep Generative Models using Interactive Visual Experimentation. Minsuk Kahng, Nikhil Thorat, Duen Horng (Polo) Chau, Fernanda B. Viégas, and Martin Wattenberg. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2018.
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Visual Analytics in Deep Learning: An Interrogative Survey for the Next Frontiers. Fred Hohman, Minsuk Kahng, Robert Pienta, Duen Horng Chau. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2018.
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Interactive Classification for Deep Learning Interpretation. Angel Cabrera, Fred Hohman, Jason Lin, Duen Horng (Polo) Chau. Demo, Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). June 18, 2018. Salt Lake City, USA.
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arXiv
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SHIELD: Fast, Practical Defense and Vaccination for Deep Learning using JPEG Compression. Nilaksh Das, Madhuri Shanbhogue, Shang-Tse Chen, Fred Hohman, Siwei Li, Li Chen, Michael E. Kounavis, Duen Horng Chau. ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) 2018. London, UK. Aug 19-23, 2018.
Won Audience Appreciation Award, Runner-up
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Augmenting Coding: AugmentedReality for Learning Programming. Nathan Dass, Joonyoung Kim, Sam Ford, Sudeep Agarwal, Duen Horng Chau. The Sixth International Symposium of Chinese CHI (Chinese CHI 2018). Apr 21-22, 2018. Montreal, Canada.
Won Best Poster Award
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Robust Physical Adversarial Attack on Faster R-CNN Object Detector. Shang-Tse Chen, Cory Cornelius, Jason Martin, Duen Horng Chau. arXiv.
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Keeping the Bad Guys Out: Protecting and Vaccinating Deep Learning with JPEG Compression. Nilaksh Das, Madhuri Shanbhogue, Shang-Tse Chen, Fred Hohman, Li Chen, Michael E. Kounavis, Duen Horng Chau. arXiv.
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Search Rank Fraud De-Anonymization in Online Systems Mizanur Rahman, Nestor Hernandez, Bogdan Carbunar and Duen Horng Chau. ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT'18).
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ActiVis: Visual Exploration of Industry-Scale Deep Neural Network Models. Minsuk Kahng, Pierre Andrews, Aditya Kalro, Duen Horng (Polo) Chau. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proc. VAST'17), Jan 2018. . [21% acceptance rate]
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Visual Graph Query Construction and Refinement. Robert Pienta, Fred Hohman, Acar Tamersoy, Alex Endert, Shamkant Navathe, Hanghang Tong, Duen Horng Chau. SIGMOD 2017. May 14-19, 2017. Chicago, IL, USA.
Best Demo, Honorable Mention
Book Chapters
Exploratory Visual Analytics of Mobile Health Data: Sensemaking Challenges and Opportunities. Peter J Polack Jr, Moushumi Sharmin, Kaya de Barbaro, Minsuk Kahng, Shang-Tse Chen, and Duen Horng Chau. Mobile Health: Sensors, Analytic Methods, and Applications. Springer. 2017.
Case study on fraud detection using social-network analysis. Duen Horng (Polo) Chau and Christos Faloutsos. Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer. 2014.
Journal
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GAN Lab: Understanding Complex Deep Generative Models using Interactive Visual Experimentation. Minsuk Kahng, Nikhil Thorat, Duen Horng (Polo) Chau, Fernanda B. Viégas, and Martin Wattenberg. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2018.
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Visual Analytics in Deep Learning: An Interrogative Survey for the Next Frontiers. Fred Hohman, Minsuk Kahng, Robert Pienta, Duen Horng Chau. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2018.
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Chronodes: Interactive Multi-focus Exploration of Event Sequences. Peter J. Polack, Shang-Tse Chen, Minsuk Kahng, Kaya De Barbaro, Rahul Basole, Moushumi Sharmin, Duen Horng (Polo) Chau. ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS) Special Issue on Interactive Visual Analysis of Human and Crowd Behaviors. 2018.
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ActiVis: Visual Exploration of Industry-Scale Deep Neural Network Models. Minsuk Kahng, Pierre Andrews, Aditya Kalro, Duen Horng (Polo) Chau. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proc. VAST'17), Jan 2018. . [21% acceptance rate]
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VIGOR: Interactive Visual Exploration of Graph Query Results. Robert Pienta, Fred Hohman, Alex Endert, Acar Tamersoy, Kevin Roundy, Chris Gates, Shamkant Navathe, Duen Horng (Polo) Chau. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proc. VAST'17), Jan 2018. [21% acceptance rate]
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Search Rank Fraud and Malware Detection in Google Play. Mahmudur Rahman, Mizanur Rahman, Bogdan Carbunar, Duen Horng Chau. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE) 29(6), 1329. 2017
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Constraint based temporal event sequence mining for Glioblastoma survival prediction. Kunal Malhotra, Shamkant Navathe, Duen Horng Chau, Costas Hadjipanayis and Jimeng Sun. Journal of biomedical informatics, 16, 267-275. 2016
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Center of excellence for mobile sensor Data-to-Knowledge (MD2K). Santosh Kumar, Gregory D. Abowd, William T. Abraham, Mustafa al’Absi, J. Gayle Beck, Duen Horng Chau, Tyson Condie, David E. Conroy, Emre Ertin, Deborah Estrin, Deepak Ganesan, Cho Lam, Benjamin Marlin, Clay B. Marsh, Susan A. Murphy, Inbal Nahum-Shani, Kevin Patrick, James M. Rehg, Moushumi Sharmin, Vivek Shetty, Ida Sim, Bonnie Spring, Mani Srivastava and David W. Wetter. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA) Jul 2015. DOI: 10.1093/jamia/ocv056
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Node Immunization on Large Graphs: Theory and Algorithms. Chen, C. and Tong, H. and Prakash, B.A. and Tsourakakis, C. and Eliassi-Rad, T. and Faloutsos, C. and Chau, D.H. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 28(1), 113-126. 2015
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To Catch a Fake: Curbing Deceptive Yelp Ratings and Venues. Mahmudur Rahman, Bogdan Carbunar, Jaime Ballesteros, Duen Horng (Polo) Chau. Statistical Analysis and Data Mining: The ASA Data Science Journal, 8(3), 147-161. 2015.
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Understanding variations in pediatric asthma care processes in the emergency department using visual analytics. Rahul C. Basole, Mark L. Braunstein, Vikas Kumar, Hyunwoo Park, Minsuk Kahng, Duen Horng (Polo) Chau, Acar Tamersoy, Daniel A. Hirsh, Nicoleta Serban, James Bost, Burton Lesnick, Beth L. Schissel, Michael Thompson. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA) 2015. DOI: 10.1093/jamia/ocu016
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GLO-STIX: Graph-Level Operations for Specifying Techniques and Interactive eXploration. Charles D. Stolper, Minsuk Kahng, Zhiyuan Lin, Florian Foerster, Aakash Goel, John Stasko, and Duen Horng Chau. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 20(12), 2320-2328. 2014.
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SharkFin: Spatio-temporal mining of software adoption and penetration. Evangelos E. Papalexakis, Tudor Dumitras, Duen Horng Chau, B. Aditya Prakash, Christos Faloutsos. Social Network Analysis and Mining (SNAM), 4(1), 1-15. 2014.
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Large Scale Insider Trading Analysis: Patterns and Discoveries. Acar Tamersoy, Elias Khalil, Bo Xie, Stephen L. Lenkey, Bryan R. Routledge. Duen Horng Chau, Shamkant B. Navathe. Social Network Analysis and Mining (SNAM), 4(1), 1-17. 2014.
Conference
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Local Partition in Rich Graphs. Scott Freitas, Nan Cao, Yinglong Xia, Duen Horng Chau, and Hanghang Tong. BigData 2018. Dec 10-13, 2018. Seattle, WA, USA.
Scalable K-Core Decomposition for Static Graphs Using a Dynamic Graph Data Structure. Alok Tripathy, Fred Hohman, Duen Horng Chau, and Oded Green. BigData 2018. Dec 10-13, 2018. Seattle, WA, USA.
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ShapeShifter: Robust Physical Adversarial Attack on Faster R-CNN Object Detector. Shang-Tse Chen, Cory Cornelius, Jason Martin, Duen Horng (Polo) Chau. PKDD 2018. Sept 10–14, 2018. Dublin, Ireland.
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Shield: Fast, Practical Defense and Vaccination for Deep Learning using JPEG Compression. Nilaksh Das, Madhuri Shanbhogue, Shang-Tse Chen, Fred Hohman, Siwei Li, Li Chen, Michael E. Kounavis, Duen Horng Chau. ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) 2018. London, UK. Aug 19-23, 2018.
Won Audience Appreciation Award, Runner-up
Search Rank Fraud De-Anonymization in Online Systems Mizanur Rahman, Nestor Hernandez, Bogdan Carbunar and Duen Horng Chau. ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT'18).
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Predicting Cyber Threats with Virtual Security Products. Shang-Tse Chen, Yufei Han, Duen Horng (Polo) Chau, Christopher Gates, Michael Hart, Kevin A. Roundy. Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC) 2017.
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Analysis of Smoking and Drinking Relapse in an Online Community. Acar Tamersoy, Munmun De Choudhury, Duen Horng Chau. 7th International conference on Digital Health 2017. July 2-5, 2017. London.
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Facets: Adaptive Local Exploration of Large Graphs. Robert Pienta, Minsuk (Brian) Kahng, Zhiyuan Lin, Jilles Vreeken, Partha Talukdar, James Abello, Ganesh Parameswaran, Duen Horng (Polo) Chau. SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM) 2017. April 27-29, 2017. Houston, Texas.
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Firebird: Predicting Fire Risk and Prioritizing Fire Inspections in Atlanta. Michael Madaio, Shang-Tse Chen, Oliver Haimson, Wenwen Zhang, Xiang Cheng, Matthew Hinds-Aldrich, Duen Horng (Polo) Chau, Bistra Dilkina. ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) 2016. San Francisco, CA. Aug 13-17, 2016.
Won Best Student Paper award, runner up.
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[ETable] Interactive Browsing and Navigation in Relational Databases. Minsuk Kahng, Shamkant B. Navathe, John T. Stasko, Duen Horng (Polo) Chau. VLDB 2016. New Delhi, India. Sept 5-9, 2016.
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M-Flash Fast Billion-scale Graph Computation Using a Bimodal Block Processing Model. Hugo Gualdron, Robson Cordeiro, Jose Rodrigues, Duen Horng (Polo) Chau, Minsuk Kahng, U Kang. PKDD 2016. Sept 19–23, 2016. Riva del Garda, Italy.
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VISAGE: Interactive Visual Graph Querying. Robert Pienta, Acar Tamersoy, Alex Endert, Shamkant B. Navathe, Hanghang Tong, Duen Horng (Polo) Chau International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI 2016). June 7-10, 2016. Bari, Italy.
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FairPlay: Fraud and Malware Detection in Google Play. Mahmudur Rahman, Mizanur Rahman, Bogdan Carbunar, Duen Horng Chau. SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM) 2016. May 5-7, 2016. Miami, Florida.
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Communication Efficient Distributed Agnostic Boosting. Shang-Tse Chen, Maria-Florina Balcan, Duen Horng Chau. 19th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS 2016). May 9-11, 2016. Cadiz, Spain.
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What's Hot in Intelligent User Interfaces 2015 . Shimei Pan, Oliver Brdiczka, Giuseppe Carenini, Duen Horng Chau, Per Ola Kristensson. 13th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2016. Feb 12–17, 2016. Phoenix, Arizona, USA.
Invited
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Characterizing Smoking and Drinking Abstinence from Social Media. Acar Tamersoy, Munmun De Choudhury and Duen Horng Chau. Proceedings of ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT). September 1-5, 2015.
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explICU: A Web-based Visualization and Predictive Modeling Toolkit for Mortality in Intensive Care Patients. Robert Chen, Vikas Kumar, Natalie Fitch, Jitesh Jagadish, Lifan Zhang, William Dunn, Duen Horng Chau. 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC). Milano, Italy, August 25-29, 2015.
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Aurigo: an Interactive Tour Planner for Personalized Itineraries. Alexandre Yahi, Antoine Chassang, Louis Raynaud, Hugo Duthil, Duen Horng (Polo) Chau. ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI). Atlanta, GA, USA. March 29 - April 1, 2015.
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Scalable Graph Exploration and Visualization: Sensemaking Challenges and Opportunities. Robert Pienta, James Abello, Minsuk Kahng, Duen Horng Chau. International Conference on Big Data and Smart Computing (BigComp). Jeju Island, Korea. February 9-12, 2015.
Invited
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GLO-STIX: Graph-Level Operations for Specifying Techniques and Interactive eXploration. Charles D. Stolper, Minsuk Kahng, Zhiyuan Lin, Florian Foerster, Aakash Goel, John Stasko, and Duen Horng Chau. IEEE InfoVis 2014, November 9-14, Paris, France. [23% acceptance rate]
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MMap: Fast Billion-Scale Graph Computation on a PC via Memory Mapping. Zhiyuan Lin, Minsuk Kahng, Kaeser Md. Sabrin, Duen Horng Chau, Ho Lee, and U Kang. Proceedings of IEEE BigData 2014 conference. Oct 27-30, Washington DC, USA.
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MAGE: Matching Approximate Patterns in Richly-Attributed Graphs. Robert Pienta, Acar Tamersoy, Hanghang Tong, and Duen Horng Chau. Proceedings of IEEE BigData 2014 conference. Oct 27-30, Washington DC, USA.
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[AESOP] Guilt by Association: Large Scale Malware Detection by Mining File-relation Graphs Acar Tamersoy, Kevin Roundy, Duen Horng (Polo) Chau. ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) 2014. New York City, NY, USA. Aug 24-27, 2014.
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Turning the Tide: Curbing Deceptive Yelp Behaviors. Mahmudur Rahman, Bogdan Carbunar, Jaime Ballesteros, George Burri, Duen Horng (Polo) Chau. Proceedings of SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM) 2014. April 24-26, 2014. Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Won Best Student Paper award.
"Best of SDM 2014" paper. Invited to Statistical Analysis and Data Mining (SAM) Journal.
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LatentGesture: Active User Authentication Through Background Touch Analysis. Premkumar Saravana, Samuel Clarke, Duen Horng Chau, Hongyuan Zha. The Second International Symposium of Chinese CHI (Chinese CHI 2014). Apr 26-27, 2014. Toronto, Canada.
Featured in popular press: Wired, engadget, gizmodo, Yahoo!, business chronicle, GT press release, and many more...
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Detecting Insider Threats in a Real Corporate Database of Computer Usage Activity. Ted E. Senator, Henry G. Goldberg, Alex Memory, William Y. Young, Brad Rees, Robert Pierce, Daniel Huang, Matthew Reardon, David A. Bader, Edmond Chow, Irfan Essa, Joshua Jones, Vinay Bettadapura, Duen Horng Chau, Oded Gree, Oguz Kaya, Anita Zakrzewska, Erica Briscoe, Rudolph L. Mappus IV, Robert McColl, Lora Weiss, Thomas G. Dietterich, Alan Fern, Weng-Keen Wong, Shubhomoy Das, Andrew Emmott, Jed Irvine, Jay-Yoon Lee, Danai Koutra, Christos Faloutsos, Daniel Corkill, Lisa Friedland, Amanda Gentzel, David Jensen. ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) 2013. Chicago, Illinois, USA. Aug 11-14, 2013.
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Inside Insider Trading: Patterns & Discoveries from a Large Scale Exploratory Analysis. Acar Tamersoy, Bo Xie, Stephen L. Lenkey, Bryan R. Routledge. Duen Horng Chau, Shamkant B. Navathe. IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM) 2013. Niagara Falls, Canada. August 25-28, 2013.
Invited to Social Network Analysis and Mining journal (SNAM).
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Spatio-temporal Mining of Software Adoption & Penetration. Evangelos E. Papalexakis, Tudor Dumitras, Duen Horng (Polo) Chau, B. Aditya Prakash, Christos Faloutsos. IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM) 2013. Niagara Falls, Canada. August 25-28, 2013.
Invited to Social Network Analysis and Mining journal (SNAM).
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Inference-assisted Choosing by Advantages. John Haymaker, Duen Horng Chau, Bo Xie. 21th Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC). Fortaleza, Brazil. Jul 29 - Aug 2, 2013.
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Mining Connection Pathways for Marked Nodes in Large Graphs. Leman Akoglu, Jilles Vreeken, Hanghang Tong, Duen Horng Chau, Nikolaj Tatti, and Christos Faloutsos. Proceedings of SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM) 2013. May 2-4, 2013. Austin, Texas. [25% accept]
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PEGASUS: Mining Billion-Scale Graphs in the Cloud. U Kang, Duen Horng Chau, and Christos Faloutsos. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2012. Mar 25-30, 2012. Kyoto, Japan
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Unifying Guilt-by-Association Approaches: Theorems and Fast Algorithms. Danai Koutra, Tai-You Ke, U Kang, Duen Horng (Polo) Chau, Hsing-Kuo Kenneth Pao, and Christos Faloutsos. European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (PKDD) 2011. Sept 5-9, 2011. Athens, Greece. [20% acceptance rate]
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Mining Large Graphs: Algorithms, Inference, and Discoveries. U Kang, Duen Horng (Polo) Chau, Christos Faloutsos. IEEE International Conference of Data Engineering (ICDE) 2011. April 11-16. Hannover, Germany. [20% acceptance rate]
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Apolo: Making Sense of Large Network Data by Combining Rich User Interaction and Machine Learning. Duen Horng (Polo) Chau, Aniket Kittur, Jason I. Hong, Christos Faloutsos. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) 2011. May 7-12, 2011. Vancouver, BC, Canada. [26% acceptance rate]
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Polonium: Tera-Scale Graph Mining and Inference for Malware Detection. Duen Horng (Polo) Chau, Carey Nachenberg, Jeffrey Wilhelm, Adam Wright, Christos Faloutsos. Proceedings of SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM) 2011. April 28-30, 2011. Mesa, Arizona. [25% acceptance rate]
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On the Vulnerability of Large Graphs. Hanghang Tong, B. Aditya Prakash, Charalampos Tsourakakis, Tina Eliassi-Rad, Christos Faloutsos, Duen Horng (Polo) Chau. IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) 2010. Dec 14-17, 2010. Sydney, Australia. [19% acceptance rate]
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What to Do When Search Fails: Finding Information by Association. Duen Horng (Polo) Chau, Brad Myers, and Andrew Faulring. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) 2008. April 5-10, 2008. Florence, Italy. New York: ACM Press, Pages 999-1008. [22% acceptance rate]
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The eBay Graph: How Do Online Auction Users Interact? Yordanos Beyene, Michalis Faloutsos, Duen Horng (Polo) Chau, Christos Faloutsos. Computer Communications Workshops, 2008. INFOCOM. April 13-18, 2008. Phoenix, AZ.
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NetProbe: A Fast and Scalable System for Fraud Detection in Online Auction Networks. Shashank Pandit, Duen Horng (Polo) Chau, Samuel Wang, Christos Faloutsos. International Conference on World Wide Web (WWW) 2007. May 8-12, 2007. Banff, Alberta, Canada. Pages 201-210. [15% acceptance rate]
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Eyes on the Road, Hands on the Wheel: Thumb-based Interaction Techniques for Input on Steering Wheels. Ivan E. Gonzalez, Jacob O. Wobbrock, Duen Horng (Polo) Chau, Andrew Faulring, Brad A. Myers. Graphics Interface (GI) 2007. May 28-30, 2007. Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Pages 95-102. [48% acceptance rate]
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Demonstrating the Viability of Automatically Generated User Interfaces. Jeffrey Nichols, Duen Horng (Polo) Chau, Brad A. Myers. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) 2007. April 28-May 3, 2007. San Jose, CA. Pages 1283-1292. [25% acceptance rate]
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An Alternative to Push, Press, and Tap-tap-tap: Gesturing on an Isometric Joystick for Mobile Phone Text Entry. Jacob O. Wobbrock, Duen Horng (Polo) Chau and Brad A. Myers. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) 2007. April 28-May 3, 2007. San Jose, CA. Pages 667-676. [25% acceptance rate]
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Huddle: Automatically Generating Interfaces for Systems of Multiple Connected Appliances. Jeffrey Nichols, Brandon Rothrock, Duen Horng (Polo) Chau, Brad A. Myers. ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST) 2006. October 15-18, 2006. Montreux, Switzerland. Pages 279-288. [23% acceptance rate]
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In-stroke Word Completion. Jacob O. Wobbrock, Brad A. Myers, and Duen Horng (Polo) Chau. ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST) 2006. October 15-18, 2006. Montreux, Switzerland. Pages 333-336. [23% acceptance rate]
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Detecting Fraudulent Personalities in Networks of Online Auctioneers. Duen Horng (Polo) Chau, Shashank Pandit, and Christos Faloutsos. European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (PKDD) 2006. Sept 18-22, 2006. Berlin, Germany. Pages 103-114. [15% acceptance rate]
Best Presentation Award, 3rd place
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A Linguistic Analysis of How People Describe Software Problems. Andrew J. Ko, Brad A. Myers, and Duen Horng (Polo) Chau. Proceedings of VL/HCC 2006. September 4-8, 2006, Brighton, UK. Pages 127-134. [28% acceptance rate]
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Answering Why and Why Not Questions in User Interfaces. Brad Myers, David A. Weitzman, Andrew J. Ko, and Duen Horng (Polo) Chau. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) 2006. April 22-27, 2006. Montreal, Canada. Pages 397-406. [23% acceptance rate]
Edited Volumes
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Catching Bad Guys with Graph Mining. Polo Chau. Crossroads: The ACM Magazine for Students - The Fate of Money. Volume 17 Issue 3, Spring 2011. Pages 16-18.
Workshop
Designing a Visual Analytics System for Industry-Scale Deep Neural Network Models. Minsuk Kahng, Pierre Y. Andrews, Aditya Kalro, Duen Horng (Polo) Chau. IEEE VIS'17 Workshop on Visual Analytics for Deep Learning.
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Scalable Architecture for Anomaly Detection and Visualization in Power Generating Assets. Paras Jain, Chirag Tailor, Sam Ford, Liexiao Ding, Michael Phillips, Fang Liu, Nagi Gebraeel, Duen Horng Chau. The 3rd IEEE International Workshop on High-Performance Big Data Computing (HPBDC, at IPDPS 2017). May 29, 2017. Orlando, Florida.
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[MLCube] Visual Exploration of Machine Learning Results using Data Cube Analysis. Minsuk Kahng, Dezhi Fang, Duen Horng (Polo) Chau. SIGMOD 2016 Workshop on Human-In-the-Loop Data Analytics (HILDA). Jun 26, 2016. San Francisco, USA.
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Building a Research Data Science Platform from Industrial Machines. Fang (Cherry) Liu, Fu Shen, Duen Horng Chau, Neil Bright and Mehmet Belgin. IEEE Big Data 2016 Workshop on Advances in Software and Hardware for Big Data to Knowledge Discovery (ASH). Dec 5-8, 2016. Washington D.C.
Building a Data Science Platform from Scratch. Fang (Cherry) Liu, Fu Shen, Duen Horng (Polo) Chau, Paras Jain. Women in HPC Workshop at Super Computing (SC) 2016. Nov 13, 2016. Salt Lake City, USA.
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ISPARK: Interactive Visual Analytics for Fire Incidents and Station Placement. Subhajit Das, Andrea McCarter, Joe Minieri, Nandita Damaraju, Sriram Padmanabhan and Duen Horng Chau. KDD 2015 Workshop on Interactive Data Exploration and Analytics (IDEA) Aug 10, 2015. Sydney, Australia.
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A Visual Analytics Approach to Understanding Care Process Variation and Conformance. Rahul C. Basole, Hyunwoo Park, Mayank Gupta, Mark L. Braunstein, Polo Chau, Michael Thompson, Vikas Kumar, Robert Pienta, Minsuk Kahng. 2015 Workshop on Visual Analytics in Healthcare. Oct 25, 2015. Chicago IL, USA.
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Towards Scalable Graph Computation on Mobile Devices. Yiqi Chen, Zhiyuan Lin, Robert Pienta, Minsuk Kahng, Duen Horng (Polo) Chau. IEEE BigData 2014 Workshop on Scalable Machine Learning: Theory and Applications. Oct 27, 2014. Washington DC, USA.
Bicentric Visualization of Pediatric Asthma Care Process Activities. Rahul C. Basole, Hyunwoo Park, Vikas Kumar, Mark L. Braunstein, James Bost, Duen Horng (Polo) Chau, Minsuk Kahng. IEEE VIS 2014 Workshop on Visualizing Electronic Health Record Data (EHRVis). Nov 9, 2014. Paris, France.
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Exploring Clinical Care Processes Using Visual and Data Analytics: Challenges and Opportunities. Vikas Kumar, Hyunwoo Park, Rahul C. Basole, Mark Braunstein, Minsuk Kahng, Duen Horng Chau, Acar Tamersoy, Daniel A. Hirsh, Nicoleta Serban, James Bost, Burton Lesnick, Beth Schissel, Michael Thompson. ACM KDD'14 Data Mining for Social Good Workshop. Aug 24, 2014, New York City, NY.
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Temporal Event Sequence Mining for Glioblastoma Survival Prediction. Kunal Malhotra, Duen Horng (Polo) Chau, Jimeng Sun, Costas Hadjipanayis, Shamkant B. Navathe. KDD 2014 Workshop on Health Informatics (HI-KDD 2014). Aug 24, 2014. New York City, NY. USA.
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Leveraging Memory Mapping for Fast and Scalable Graph Computation on a PC. Zhiyuan (Jerry) Lin, Duen Horng (Polo) Chau, U Kang. IEEE BigData'13 Scalable Machine Learning: Theory and Applications. Oct 6, Santa Clara, CA.
Exploring Large Scale Insider Trading Data: Network Patterns & Discoveries. Acar Tamersoy, Bo Xie, Stephen Lenkey, Bryan R. Routledge, Duen Horng (Polo) Chau, Shamkant B. Navathe. Workshop on Information in Networks (WIN 2013). Oct 4-5, New York, NY.
Scalable, Minimalist Graph Computation on a PC via Memory Mapping. Zhiyuan (Jerry) Lin, Duen Horng (Polo) Chau, U Kang. Workshop on Information in Networks (WIN 2013). Oct 4-5, New York, NY.
Augmenting MATLAB with Semantic Objects for an Interactive Visual Environment. Changhyun Lee, Jaegul Choo, Duen Horng (Polo) Chau, Haesun Park. KDD 2013 Workshop on Interactive Data Exploration and Analytics (IDEA 2013). Aug 11, 2013. Chicago, Illinois.
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Polonium: Tera-Scale Graph Mining for Malware Detection. Duen Horng (Polo) Chau, Carey Nachenberg, Jeffrey Wilhelm, Adam Wright, Christos Faloutsos. The 2nd Workshop on Large-scale Data Mining: Theory and Applications (LDMTA 2010). July 25, 2010. Washington, DC.
IBM Student Travel Fellowship
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Inference of Beliefs on Billion-Scale Graphs. U Kang, Duen Horng (Polo) Chau, Christos Faloutsos. The 2nd Workshop on Large-scale Data Mining: Theory and Applications (LDMTA 2010). July 25-28, 2010. Washington, DC.
Supporting Ad Hoc Sensemaking: Integrating Cognitive, HCI, and Data Mining Approaches. Aniket Kittur, Duen Horng (Polo) Chau, Christos Faloutsos, Jason I. Hong. Sensemaking Workshop at CHI 2009. April 4-5, 2009. Boston, MA.
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Feldspar: A System for Finding Information by Association. Duen Horng (Polo) Chau, Brad Myers, and Andrew Faulring. PIM 2008: CHI 2008 Workshop on Personal Information Management. April 5-6, 2008. Florence, Italy.
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Fraud Detection in Electronic Auction. Duen Horng (Polo) Chau and Christos Faloutsos. Proceedings of EWMF'05: European Web Mining Forum, at ECML/PKDD'05. October 3-7, 2005. Porto, Portugal.
Poster Papers
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Augmenting Coding: AugmentedReality for Learning Programming. Nathan Dass, Joonyoung Kim, Sam Ford, Sudeep Agarwal, Duen Horng Chau. The Sixth International Symposium of Chinese CHI (Chinese CHI 2018). Apr 21-22, 2018. Montreal, Canada..
Won Best Poster
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3D Exploration of Graph Layers via Vertex Cloning. James Abello, Fred Hohman, Duen Horng (Polo) Chau. Poster Abstract, IEEE VIS 2017.
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Atomic Operations for Specifying Graph Visualization Techniques. Charles D. Stolper, Will Price, Matt Sanford, Duen Horng (Polo) Chau, John Stasko. Poster Abstract, IEEE VIS 2017.
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GitHub
ShapeShop: Towards Understanding Deep Learning Representations via Interactive Experimentation. Fred Hohman, Nathan Hodas, Duen Horng (Polo) Chau. Extended Abstracts, CHI 2017 May 6-11, 2017. Denver, CO, USA.
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Carina: Interactive Million-Node Graph Visualization using Web Browser Technologies. Dezhi (Andy) Fang, MaŠhew Keezer, Jacob Williams, Kshitij Kulkarni, Robert Pienta, Duen Horng (Polo) Chau. 26th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW) 2017 Companion. April 3-7, 2017. Perth, Australia.
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Making Sense of Graph Query Results: Interactive Summarization and Exploration. Robert Pienta, Alex Endert, Shamkant Navathe, Duen Horng Chau. Poster Abstract, IEEE VIS 2016. Oct 23 - 28, 2016. Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
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NaturalMotion: Exploring Gesture Controls for Visualizing Time-Evolving Graphs. Samuel Clarke, Nathan Dass, Duen Horng Chau. Poster Abstract, IEEE VIS 2016. Oct 23 - 28, 2016. Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
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arXiv
M3: Scaling Up Machine Learning via Memory Mapping. Dezhi Fang, Duen Horng (Polo) Chau. SIGMOD/PODS’16.
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Generating Graph Snapshots from Streaming Edge Data. Sucheta Soundarajan, Acar Tamersoy, Elias Khalil, Tina Eliassi-Rad, Duen Horng Chau, Brian Gallagher and Kevin Roundy 25th International World Wide Web Conference 2016. Apr 11-15, 2016. Montreal, Canada
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Poster
STEPS: A Spatio-temporal Electric Power Systems Visualization. Robert Pienta, Leilei Xiong, Santiago Grijalva, Duen Horng Chau, Minsuk Kahng. ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI). March 7-10, 2016. Sonoma, GA, USA.
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Effort-based Detection of Comment Spammers. Acar Tamersoy, Hua Ouyang and Duen Horng Chau 36th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2015. May 18-20, 2015. San Jose, CA, USA.
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Spotting Suspicious Reviews via (Quasi-)clique Extraction. Paras Jain, Shang-Tse Chen, Mozhgan Azimpourkivi, Duen Horng Chau and Bogdan Carbunar 36th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2015. May 18-20, 2015. San Jose, CA, USA.
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TimeStitch: Interactive Multi-focus Cohort Discovery and Comparison. Peter J. Polack, Jr., Shang-Tse Chen, Minsuk Kahng, Moushumi Sharmin, Duen Horng (Polo) Chau. Poster Abstract, IEEE VIS 2015. Oct 25 - 30, 2015. Chicago, IL, USA.
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AdaptiveNav: Adaptive Discovery of Interesting and Surprising Nodes in Large Graphs. Robert Pienta, Zhiyuan Lin, Minsuk Kahng, Jilles Vreeken, Partha P. Talukdar, James Abello, Ganesh Parameswaran, Duen Horng (Polo) Chau. Poster Abstract, IEEE VIS 2015. Oct 25 - 30, 2015. Chicago, IL, USA.
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Interactive Querying over Large Network Data: Scalability, Visualization, and Interaction Design. Robert Pienta, Acar Tamersoy, Hanghang Tong, Alex Endert, Duen Horng (Polo) Chau. ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI). Atlanta, GA, USA. March 29 - April 1, 2015.
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Identifying Successful Investors in the Startup Ecosystem. Srishti Gupta, Robert Pienta, Acar Tamersoy, Duen Horng Chau, Rahul C. Basole. International Conference on World Wide Web (WWW) 2015, May 18 -22, 2015. Florence, Italy
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GLOs: Graph-Level Operations for Exploratory Network Visualization. Charles D. Stolper, Florian Foerster, Minsuk Kahng, Zhiyuan Lin, Aakash Goel, John Stasko, Duen Horng (Polo) Chau. Extended Abstracts, CHI 2014. Apr 26 - May 1, 2014. Toronto, Canada.
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Interactive Multi-resolution Exploration of Million Node Graphs. Zhiyuan (Jerry) Lin, Duen Horng (Polo) Chau. Poster Abstract, IEEE VIS 2013 Oct 13 - 18, 2013. Atlanta, GA, USA.
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Fast Interactive Visualization for Multivariate Data Exploration. Changhyun Lee, Wei Zhuo, Jaegul Choo, Duen Horng (Polo) Chau. Extended Abstracts, CHI 2013 Apr 27- May 2, 2013. Paris, France.
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TopicViz: Semantic Navigation of Document Collections. Jacob Eisenstein, Duen Horng (Polo) Chau, Aniket Kittur, Eric P. Xing. Extended Abstracts, CHI 2012. May 5-10, 2012. Austin, TX, USA.
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Parallel Crawling for Online Social Networks. Duen Horng (Polo) Chau, Shashank Pandit, Samuel Wang, and Christos Faloutsos. International Conference on World Wide Web (WWW) 2007. May 8-12, 2007. Banff, Alberta, Canada. Pages 201-210.
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Integrating Isometric Joysticks into Mobile Phones for Text Entry. Duen Horng (Polo) Chau, Jacob O. Wobbrock, Brad A. Myers, Brandon Rothrock. Extended Abstracts, CHI 2006. April 22-27, 2006. Montreal, Canada. Pages 640-645.
Demos
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GitHub
Interactive Classification for Deep Learning Interpretation. Angel Cabrera, Fred Hohman, Jason Lin, Duen Horng (Polo) Chau. Demo, Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). June 18, 2018. Salt Lake City, USA.
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YouTube Poster
mHealth Visual Discovery Dashboard. Dezhi Fang, Fred Hohman, Peter Polack, Hillol Sarker, Minsuk Kahng, Moushumi Sharmin, Mustafa al'Absi, Duen Horng (Polo) Chau. Demo, ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UBICOMP) Sept 11-15, 2017. Maui, USA.
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Visual Graph Query Construction and Refinement. Robert Pienta, Fred Hohman, Acar Tamersoy, Alex Endert, Shamkant Navathe, Hanghang Tong, Duen Horng Chau. SIGMOD 2017. May 14-19, 2017. Chicago, IL, USA.
Best Demo, Honorable Mention
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Demonstrating Interactive Multi-resolution Large Graph Exploration. Zhiyuan (Jerry) Lin, Nan Cao, Hanghang Tong, Fei Wang, U Kang, and Duen Horng (Polo) Chau. ICDM 2013. Dec 7 - 10, 2013. Dallas, Texas, USA.
Interactive Data Analysis Tool by Augmenting MATLAB with Semantic Objects. Changhyun Lee, Jaegul Choo, Duen Horng (Polo) Chau, and Haesun Park. ICDM 2013. Dec 7 - 10, 2013. Dallas, Texas, USA.
Interactively and Visually Exploring Tours of Marked Nodes in Large Graphs. Duen Horng (Polo) Chau, Leman Akoglu, Jilles Vreeken, Hanghang Tong, Christos Faloutsos. ASONAM 2012. Aug, 2012. Istanbul, Turkey
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TourViz: Interactive Visualization of Connection Pathways in Large Graphs. Duen Horng (Polo) Chau, Leman Akoglu, Jilles Vreeken, Hanghang Tong, Christos Faloutsos. KDD 2012. Aug, 2012. Beijing, China
Large Graph Mining System for Patterns, Anomalies & Visualization. Leman Akoglu, Duen Horng (Polo) Chau, U Kang, Danai Koutra, Christos Faloutsos. Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD) 2012. May 29-Jun 1, 2012. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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Poster
OPAvion: Mining and visualization in large graphs. Leman Akoglu, Duen Horng (Polo) Chau, U Kang, Danai Koutra, Christos Faloutsos. ACM SIGMOD Conference 2012. May 20-24, 2012. Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
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Apolo: Interactive Large Graph Sensemaking by Combining Machine Learning and Visualization. Duen Horng (Polo) Chau, Aniket Kittur, Jason I. Hong, Christos Faloutsos. ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) 2011. Aug 21-21, 2011. San Diego, California, USA.
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SHIFTR: A Fast and Scalable System for Ad Hoc Sensemaking of Large Graphs. Duen Horng (Polo) Chau, Aniket Kittur, Christos Faloutsos, Hanghang Tong, Jason I. Hong. ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) 2009. June 28-July 1, 2009. Paris, France.
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GRAPHITE: A Visual Query System for Large Graphs. Duen Horng (Polo) Chau, Christos Faloutsos, Hanghang Tong, Jason I. Hong, Brian Gallagher, Tina Eliassi-Rad. International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) 2008. Dec 15-19, 2008. Pisa, Italy.
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SHIFTR: a user-directed, link-based system for ad hoc sensemaking of large heterogeneous data collections. Duen Horng (Polo) Chau, Aniket Kittur, Christos Faloutsos, Jason I. Hong. Extended Abstracts of CHI 2009. Apr 4-9, 2009. Boston, MA.

Ph.D. Students

Advisor
Austin Wright, ML PhD
Fall 2019 - present.
Zijie (Jay) Wang, ML PhD
Fall 2019 - present.
HaeKyu Park. CS PhD.
Fall 2018 - present.
Scott Freitas. ML PhD.
Fall 2018 - present.
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, 2018-2021
Raytheon Graduate Research Assistantship, 2019
Nilaksh Das. CSE PhD.
Fall 2017 - present.
Fred Hohman. CSE PhD.
Summer 2016 - present.
NASA Space Technology Research Fellowship 2018
Shang-Tse Chen. CS PhD. Co-adv: Nina Balcan.
Fall 2014 - Fall 2019.
IBM Fellowship, 2018-2020
Symantec Research Labs (SRL) Graduate Fellowship 2016, runner-up
Minsuk (Brian) Kahng. CS PhD.
Fall 2013 - Fall 2019.
Google PhD Fellowship, 2018-2020
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, 2014-2017
Robert Pienta. CSE PhD.
Spring 2013 - Fall 2017.
Thesis: Adaptive Visual Network Analytics: Algorithms, Interfaces, and Systems for Exploration and Querying
Proposal: 4/6/16. Defense: 6/27/17
Acar Tamersoy. CS PhD. Co-adv: Sham Navathe.
Spring, 2013 - Spring 2016.
Thesis: Graph-based Algorithms and Models for Security, Healthcare, and Finance
Proposal: 11/6/15. Defense: 3/11/16.
Symantec Research Labs (SRL) Graduate Fellowship, 2014-2015
Now: Researcher Scientist, Symantec Research Labs
Co-advisor
Chad Stolper. CS PhD. Adv: John Stasko.
Spring 2014 - Summer 2016.
Thesis: Graph-Level Operations: A High-Level Interface for Graph Visualization Specification
Proposal: 5/1/15. Defense: 7/1/16.
Now: Assistant Professor, Southwestern University
Research Project Advisor
Abhijit Suprem. CS. Fall 2017.
Liexiao (Richard) Ding. ISyE. Adv: Nagi Gebraeel. Fall 2016.
Oliver Haimson. Ph.D. Informatics Department. UC Irvine. Co-adv: Bistra Dilkina, Matt Hinds-Aldrich. Summer 2015.
Wenwen Chang. Ph.D. City and Regional Planning. Co-adv: Bistra Dilkina, Matt Hinds-Aldrich. Summer 2015.
Can Hantas. Co-adv: Sham Navathe. Spring 2014
Dr. Jaegul Choo. CSE. Adv: Haesun Park. Spring 2013 - Fall 2014.
Now: Assistant Professor, Korea University
Kunal Malhotra. CS. Adv: Sham Navathe. Spring 2013 - Spring 2014.
Kaeser Puryear Sabrin. CS. Fall, 2013.
Wei (Tina) Zhou. IC. Adv: Jarek Rossignac. Spring 2013 - Fall 2013.
Bo Xie. CSE. Fall 2012 - Spring 2013.

Masters Students

MS Thesis Advisor
Elias Khalil. CSE. Spring 2013 - Spring 2014.
Thesis: Optimizing the Structure of Diffusion Networks: Theory and Algorithms
Marshall D. Williamson Fellowship, for well-rounded second-year Masters' students, Spring 2014
Donald V. Jackson Fellowship, for well-rounded first year Masters' students, Spring 2013
Now: CSE/CoC PhD student
Research Project Advisor
Anmol Chhabria. MS CSE. Spring 2019 - present.
Donald V. Jackson Fellowship, for well-rounded first year Masters' students, Spring 2019
Kristina Marotta. OMS CS. Fall 2018.
Varun Bezzam. MS CS. Fall 2017 - Fall 2018
Madhuri Shanbhogue. MS CS. Spring 2017 - Spring 2018
Now: Facebook
Prasenjeet Biswal. MS CS. Spring 2017 - Fall 2018
Nilaksh Das. MS CSE. Spring 2017
Chirag Tailor. MS CS. Summer 2016 - Spring 2017.
Michael Phillips. MS Analytics. Fall 2016.
Peter Polack. MS CS. Fall 2015 - Fall 2016.
Now: PhD student, UCLA
Meera Kamath. MS CS. Spring 2016.
Now: Microsoft
Apurv Verma. MS CS. Spring 2016.
Michael Madaio. MS Digital Media. Summer 2015. Co-adv: Bistra Dilkina, Matt Hinds-Aldrich.
Now: HCI Ph.D. student, Carnegie Mellon
Xiang (Sean) Cheng. MS Computer Science & Physics. Emory University. Summer 2015. Co-adv: Bistra Dilkina, Matt Hinds-Aldrich.
Now: Nokia Technologies
Alexandre Yahi. MS CS Summer 2014 - Spring 2015
Now: PhD student, Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University
Antoine Chassang. MS CS. Summer 2014 - Spring 2015
Louis Raynaud. MS CS. Summer 2014 - Spring 2015
Now: Wavestone
Hugo Duthil. MS CS. Summer 2014 - Spring 2015
Now: Criteo
Mayank Gupta. Co-adv: Rahul Basole. MS CS. Fall 2014 - Spring 2015.
Now: Apple
Florian Foerster. MS HCI. Spring 2014 - Fall 2014.
Now: Facebook software engineer
Ganesh Parameswaran. MS CSE. Fall 2013.
Now: Yahoo! software engineer
Changhyun Lee. MS CSE. Adv: Haesun Park. Fall 2012 - Spring 2013.
Now: Google software engineer
Neha Reddy. MS Info Networking, CMU. 2009.
Now: Cvent software engineer
Karthik Thiyagarajan. MS Info Networking, CMU. 2009.
Now: QuantFind software engineer
Masters Project
Shan Li. MS HCI. Fall 2014 - Spring 2015.
Project: A Course/Major Recommendation System for Georgia Tech Students
Placed: Oracle
Srishti Gupta. MS CS. Spring 2014 - Spring 2015.
Project: A Study of Venture Capitalists through Graph Analysis
Now: Apple
Aakash Goel. MS CSE. Spring, Fall 2013.
Project: Improvements to Apolo (a Machine Learning Based Graph Visualization and Analysis System for Large Network Data)
Placed: Google software engineer
MS Special Problem
Vivek Nahbi. MS CS. Spring 2014 - Summer 2014.
Project: Systematic Integration of Large Data Sets for Improved Decision-Making.
Jon Greg. MS CSE. Fall 2012.
Project: Anomaly detection for graphs
Zhen (Henry) Wang. MS CSE. Fall 2012.
Project: Large graph decomposition
Ziaohui Luo. IC. Fall 2012.
Project: Graph visualization on mobile devices

High School Students

Research Advisor
Ergin John (EJ) Ozyazgan, Walton high school. Spring 2015 - Summer 2015.

Undergraduate Students

Research Advisor
Omar Shaikh. CS. Fall 2018 - present.
Will Epperson. CS. Spring 2019 - present.
Jonathan Leo. CS. Spring 2019 - present.
Ángel (Alex) Cabrera. CS. Spring 2018 - present.
Co-repicient of Love Family Scholarship ($10,000 total), highest award Georgia Tech gives to a graduating senior. 2019.
Siwei (Bob) Li. CS. Fall 2017 - present.
Dezhi (Andy) Fang. CS. Fall 2015 - Spring 2018.
Now: Airbnb
Outstanding Undergraduate Research, College of Computing, Georgia Tech. 2018.
Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher, Georgia Tech. 2018.
Research supported by Faculty Materials, Supplies and Travel Grants for Undergraduate Research ($1000, Summer'17)
Awarded President's Undergraduate Research Travel Award (PURA) ($1500, Fall'16)
SIGMOD'16 Undergraduate Research Poster Competition Finalist
Yili Hui. CS. Fall 2017 - Spring 2018.
Joon Kim. CS. Fall 2017 - present.
Joseph Spall. CS. Fall'17.
Michael Aki. CS. Fall'17.
D'arcy (Quintin) W Roper. CS. Fall'17.
Kshitij Kulkarni. EE. Fall 2016 - Spring 2017.
Jake Williams. CS. Spring 2016 - Spring 2017.
Fu Shen. CS. Summer 2016. Co-adv: Fang (Cherry) Liu.
Matthew Keezer. CS. Fall 2015 - Spring 2017.
Jay Kamat. CS. Fall 2015 - Spring 2016.
Neil Goel. CS. Fall 2015.
Francisco Zampieri. CS. Fall 2015.
Mika Munch. CS. Fall 2015.
Goutam Venkatramanan. CS. Fall 2015.
Sam Ford. CS. Summer 2015 - Fall 2017.
Now: Qualcomm
Ryan Birmingham. CS. Summer - Fall 2015.
Rupert Wu. CS. Summer 2015 - Fall.
Arman Rye. ISyE. Fall 2014 - Spring 2015.
Gustavo Oliver. ISyE. Fall 2014 - Spring 2015.
Nathan Dass. CS. Fall 2014 - Fall 2017.
Now: Google
2nd Place InVenture Prize 2017. $10,000 award
Research supported by Faculty Materials, Supplies and Travel Grants for Undergraduate Research ($1000, Summer'17)
Wearable Computing Center Grant (with Samuel Clarke) (~$1000, Fall 2014)
Paras Jain. CS. Fall 2014 - Spring 2017.
Now: EECS PhD student, UC Berkeley
Awarded President's Undergraduate Research Travel Award (PURA) twice (Spring'16: $1000; Spring'17: $1500)
Yiqi (Victor) Chen. CS. Fall 2013 - Spring 2016.
Now: Facebook software engineer
Awarded President's Undergraduate Research Travel Award (PURA) ($1000, Spring'15)
Zhiyuan (Jerry) Lin. CS. Spring 2013 - Spring 2016.
Now: CS Ph.D. student, Stanford
Computing Research Association's (CRA) Outstanding Undergraduate Male Researcher Award, finalist
Outstanding Undergraduate Research in Computing Award (2015)
Chosen as Georgia Tech representative for 10th Annual ACC Meeting of the Minds Conference at NC State University
Awarded President's Undergraduate Research Travel Award (PURA) ($1000, Fall'14)
1st place, 9th Undergraduate Research Kaleidoscope (URK). Oct 2014.
Awarded Sigma Xi Best Undergraduate Research Award ($200, plaque, certificate, Spring 2014)
2nd Place, 9th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium at Georgia Tech's College of Computing, Spring 2014
Awarded President's Undergraduate Research Salary Award (PURA) ($1500, Fall'13)
Funded by Faculty Materials, Supplies and Travel Grants for Undergraduate Research ($1000, Summer'13)
Awarded to attend the prestigious SC13 (SuperComputing) Experiencing HPC for Undergraduates program. 25 total awardees worldwide.
Samuel Clarke. CS. Co-adv: Hongyuan Zha. Spring 2013 - Fall 2016.
Now: MS Robotics student, Carnegie Mellon
Astronaut Scholarship (2015) -- among the most prestigious scholarships awarding the best and brightest undergraduate students pursuing education in STEM across the nation.
LatentGesture research featured in popular press
Wearable Computing Center Grant (with Nathan Dass) (~$1000, Fall 2014)
Premkumar (Prem) Saravanan. CS. Co-adv: Hongyuan Zha. Summer 2013 - Spring 2014.
Awarded President's Undergraduate Research Salary Award (PURA) ($1500, Spring'14)
LatentGesture research featured in popular press
Samarth Agarwal. CS. Spring 2013.
Sahil Jolly. CS, CMU. 2010.
Now: Amazon
Sam Wang. CS, CMU. 2006 - 07.
Project: eBay fraud detection
Now: PhD student at MIT

Visiting Scholars

Hugo Armando Gualdron Colmenares, visiting from Universidade de São Paulo. Oct 2014 - Mar 2015.

Keynotes

Scalable, Interactive Tools for Large Graph Analytics
Oct 27, 2014
Scalable Machine Learning: Theory and Applications workshop at IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData 2014)
Oct 2, 2014
Undergraduate Research Kaleidoscope. Jointly hosted by Georgia Tech Library and the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program.

Invited Talks

Data Mining meeting HCI: Human-Machine Sensemaking of Large Graphs
Apr 14, 2017
Rutgers University. Host: James Abello
Apr 7, 2017
Southern Data Science Conference, Atlanta.
Machine Learning meets Visualization: Human-machine Sensemaking of Large Network Data
Feb 5, 2016
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta. Host: Robin Wagner.
Data Mining Meets HCI: Interactive Visual Tools for Large Graphs
Feb 16, 2017
Machine Learning Data Analysis Webminar. South Big Data Hub.
May 17, 2016
MIT Lincoln Lab Graph Exploitation Symposium 2016
Jan 29, 2016
Carnegie Mellon University, Human-computer Interaction Institute (HCII) Seminar Series. Host: Brad Myers, Queenie Kravitz
10 Lessons Learned from Working with Tech Companies
June 21, 2017
Data Science for Social Good Atlanta 2017.
June 8, 2016
Data Science for Social Good Atlanta 2016.
Data and Visual Analytics 101
Summer, 2015
Atlanta Data Science for Social Good 2015. Faculty advisor student team. Co-advisors: Bistra Dilkina, Matt Hinds-Aldrich (Atlanta Fire Rescue Department)
Catching Bad Guys with Graph Mining and Visualization
Dec 17, 2015
Yahoo Labs, New York
Oct 10, 2015
Emory University Institute for Quantitative Theory and Methods, Data Visualization seminar series
Mar 9-10, 2015
Machine Learning and Data Analytics Symposium (MLDAS). Doha, Qatar. Host: Dragos Margineantu
Human-in-the-loop Graph Sensemaking: Bridging HCI and Data Mining
Dec 12, 2014
NIPS 2014 Workshop on Personalization: Methods and Applications
HCI meets Data Mining: Interactive Graph Visualization, Exploration, and Sensemaking
Jun 12, 2016
Computer Society International Conference on Computers, Software & Applications (COMPSAC) 2016
Interactive Graph Visualization, Exploration, and Sensemaking
Dec 10, 2014
FLAMEL workshop
Data Mining Meets HCI: Scalable, Interactive and Comprehensible Tools for Data Analytics
Nov 18, 2015
Career Builder Distinguished Speaker Series. Host: Khalifeh Al Jadda
Oct 17, 2015
Northwestern University, SONIC Speaker Series. Host: Noshir Contractor
Feb 13, 2015
Twitter. Host: Shuang Yang.
Jun 24, 2014
PARC (Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated). Hosts: Oliver Brdiczka, David Gunning.
Jun 6, 2014
Search Technology Forum, eBay.
Apr 26, 2014
2014 SIAM Data Mining (SDM) Workshop on Exploratory Data Analysis.
Mar 13, 2014
Data Science ATL. Host: Dr. Raj Bandyopadhyay. SOLD-OUT! 200 attendees. 5-star reviews.
Jan 16, 2014
Big Data Chalk & Talk/Brown Bag. Georgia Tech.
Data Mining Meets HCI: Scalable, Interactive Tools for Large Graphs
Nov 5, 2013
Rutgers University. Host: Prof. Tina Eliassi-Rad.
Nov 4, 2013
Bell Labs. Host: Chun-Nam (John) Yu.
Data Mining Meets HCI: Making Sense of Large Graphs
Jun 28, 2013
Goodreads. Host: Jeff Wong.
Mar 15, 2013
Stanford HCI seminar. Host: Prof. Jeff Heer.
Feb 11, 2013
LogicBlox. Host: Nikolaos (Nick) Vasiloglou II.
Nov 28, 2012
UC Berkeley iSchool Dean's Lecture. Host: Prof. Marti Hearst
Oct 25, 2012
Linkedin. Host: Dr. Daniel Tunkelang, Dr. Monica Rogati
Sept 26, 2012
Hong Kong University, School of Business. Host: Prof. Michael Chau
Oct 11, 2012
IBM (T.J. Watson Research Center). Host: Dr. Hanghang Tong.
June 11, 2012
Huawei Noah Ark Research Lab, Hong Kong. Host: Prof. Qiang Yang.
May 28, 2012
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Host: Lionel Li
Apr 16, 2012
University of Pittsburgh, School of Information. Pittsburgh, PA, USA. Host: Prof. Peter Brusilovsky.
Apr 6, 2012
Georgia Tech, School of Computational Science & Engineering. Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Apr 2, 2012
Virginia Tech, Computer Science Department. Blacksburg, Virginia, USA.
Mar 26, 2012
University of Rochester, Computer Science Department. Rochester, New York, USA.
Mar 20, 2012
Stony Brook University, Computer Science Department. Stony Brook, New York, USA.
Mar 13, 2012
Brown University, Computer Science Department. Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
Mar 7, 2012
University of Michigan, School of Information. Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
Feb 27, 2012
Pennsylvania State University, College of Information Sciences and Technology. State College, Pennsylvania, USA.
Feb 24, 2012
Carnegie Mellon University, Tepper School of Business. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
Exploiting Network Effects for Fraud and Malware Detection
Aug 2, 2013
The Third EITA Young Investigator Conference (EITA-YIC 2013), MIT. Invited

Large Graph Analytics: Anomaly Detection & Visualization
Mar 24, 2013
SIAM SEAS mini symposium on Anomaly Detection Methods and Applications. Invited by Dr. Blair Sullivan, Dr. Robert Bridges.
June 4, 2012
Singapore Management University. Host: Kyriakos Mouratidis

Mining Billion-Node Graphs: Ideas & Tools
May 28, 2012
Carnegie Mellon University, Tepper School of Business. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. Invited.

Mining Massive Graphs: Visualization and Anomaly Detection
May 13, 2011
Google. Mountain View, CA, USA
May 10, 2011
Simon Fraser University. Vancouver, Canada. Host: Prof. Jian Pei. Invited.

Detecting Fraudulent Personalities in Networks of Online Auctioneers
Feb 16, 2007
eBay. Palo Alto, CA, USA. Invited.

Professional Recognition

Invited Participant
Jun 14-15, 2017
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) Faculty Summit
Theme: Machine Learning and Human Computer Interaction for Science and Security
Feb 15, 2017
Forum on Synthetic Identity Fraud, National Academies of Sciences
Jul 13-14, 2016
Microsoft Faculty Summit
Aug 1-2, 2016
Google Faculty Institute
Jun 17-18, 2014
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) Analysis in Motion (AIM) Workshop
Invited Panel Chair
Mar 21, 2015
Georgia Tech Business Analytics and Big Data Forum: Visual Analytics Session, with Rahul Basole
Apr 15, 2013
Center for Data Analytics workshop, Georgia Tech
Invited Panelist
Mar 4, 2016
FLAMEL (NSF IGERT) Workshop.
Feb 5, 2016
Seeing for Action - Using Maps and Graphs to Protect the Public’s Health. Centers for Disease and Prevention (CDC). Host: Robin Wagner.
Sept 22, 2015
Technology Association of Georgia (TAG) Big Data Panel on Topic: What are we teaching in Big Data in our universities?
Oct 16, 2013
IEEE Vis'2013 Workshop on Using Visual Analytics to Foster Lateral Thinking About Business Problems. Host: Chandan Gokhale (Infosys)
Apr 30, 2013
PACE Town Hall panel, on HPC, visualization
Dec 11, 2012
SAMSI-FODAVA Workshop on Interactive Visualization and Analysis of Massive Data
Nov 13, 2012
Big Data Meets Social Media at Georgia Tech's Institute for People and Technology (iPaT)'s annual People & Technology Forum

Patents

Inferring File and Website Reputations by Belief Propagation Leveraging Machine Reputation. Adam Wright (Symantec), Duen Horng Chau. U.S. Patent No. 8,341,745. 25 Dec. 2012.
System and Method for Identifying Related and Synonymous Phrases in Ad Creatives. Arun Swami (Google), Duen Horng Chau. Pending.
System and Method for Identifying Contextually Relevant Phrases in Ad Creatives. Arun Swami (Google), Duen Horng Chau. Pending.

Media Coverage

Virtual, augmented reality platforms emerge as computer science teaching tool. Lauren Barack. Education Dive. March 13, 2019
K–12 Teachers Use Virtual and Augmented Reality Platforms to Teach Coding. Eli Zimmerman. EdTech. Feb 28, 2019.
These Wearables Detect Health Issues Before They Happen. Elizabeth Woyke. MIT Technology Review. 11/30/16.
Feature: Can your mobile phone make you healthier?. Kelly Servick. Science Magazine. 12/10/2015.
The Secret World of Stolen Smartphones, Where Business Is Booming. Matthew Shaer. Wired, 12/18/14.
LatentGesture: Active Mobile Device Authentication
Yahoo Faculty Research and Engagement Program (FREP) Award by Yahoo! Labs. (GT press releases 1 & 2)
"Fraudsters on Internet Auction Sites Often Leave Trail Leading to Crimes", Lee Gomes, The Wall Street Journal, December 6, 2006.
"Researchers: Software Can Nip eBay Fraud in The Bud", Bob Sullivan, MSNBC, December 8, 2006.
KQV Radio live interview, Host: Frank Gottlieb, December 10, 2006.
"Researchers Developing Anti-Fraud Tool", Joe Mandak, The Associated Press, December 11, 2006. Also appeared in over 100 newspapers around the world, including USA Today, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post.
"CMU Develops Program To Online Auction Fraud", Keith Jones, KDKA-TV News, originally aired December 12, 2006.
BizRadio live interview, Host: Brent Clenton, December 13, 2006
"Online Auction Frauds Not As Clever As They Think, Researchers Say", Alpha Doggs, Network World, December 5, 2006.

Design Awards & Leadership

  1. 2006Winner, Carnegie Mellon ID card design contest.
  2. Winner, Graduate Student Assembly logo design contest. Carnegie Mellon University.
  3. Winner, Language Technologies Institute T-shirt design contest. Carnegie Mellon University.
  4. 2005Design lead, HCI Masters capstone project. Client: Office of Naval Research.
  5. 2004Winner, webpage design contest for the New Asia College homepage. The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
  6. Lead graphics designer, The Chinese University of Hong Kong 40th Anniversary Concert.
  7. 1999-2000Art Director of school yearbook. Diocesan Boys' School (Hong Kong).

Art Installations

Butterflies
Installed at the Pittsburgh Children’s Museum on March 5, 2009
Team: Jesse Chorng, Joanna Ricou, Polo Chau
The Curator
Installed at the Pittsburgh Children's Museum on April 25, 2009
Team: Polo Chau François Chu, Sue Ann Hong, Patrick Gage Kelley

Grants & Funding

SaTC: CORE: Medium: Understanding and Fortifying Machine Learning Based Security Analytics
NSF CNS 1704701
PI: Polo Chau Co-PIs: Taesoo Kim, Wenke Lee, Le Song
Funded: $1,200,000, 8/1/2017 – 7/31/2021
III: Medium: Collaborative Research: Human-computer Graph Exploration and Tele-discovery
NSF IIS 1563816 (& 1563971)
PIs: Polo Chau, James Abello
Funded: $1,200,000, 8/1/2016 – 7/31/2020
Intel Science & Technology Center for Adversary-Resilient Security Analytics (ISTC-ARSA)
Intel
PI: Wenke Lee
Co-PIs: Polo Chau, Taesoo Kim, Le Song
Gift Funding: $1,500,000, 2016 – 2019
Center of Excellence for Mobile Sensor Data-to-Knowledge (MD2K)
National Institute of Health (NIH: 1-U54EB020404-01)
Funded: $10.8 million (Prime: Univ. of Memphis); Georgia Tech funded $1,250,035.
PI: Jim Rehg
Co-PIs: Gregory Abowd, Polo Chau
9/29/2014 – 09/30/2018
TWC: Small: Collaborative: Cracking Down Online Deception Ecosystems
NSF TWC 1526254
PIs: Bogdan Carbunar, Duen Horng (Polo) Chau
Funded. $499,413, 9/1/2015 – 8/31/2018
EAGER: Scaling up Machine Learning with Virtual Memory
NSF IIS 1551614
PIs: Polo Chau, Rich Vuduc
Funded: $184,904, 10/1/2015 – 9/30/2017
Scalable Architecture for Anomaly Visualization in Power Generating Assets
Strategic Energy Institute (SEI), Georgia Tech
PI: Polo Chau
Funded $52,344, 1/1/2016 - 12/31/2017
Data Science Platform for Strategic Industry Partnerships, Innovations, & Talent Development
Institute for Data Engineering and Science (IDEaS), Georgia Tech
PI: Polo Chau
Co-PIs: Le Song, Hongyuan Zha, Sridhar Narasimhan, Jeffrey Hu, John Stasko, Cherry Liu
Funded $75,000, 1/1/2016 - 6/30/2016
CGV: Small: Making Sense out of Large Graphs - Bridging HCI with Data Mining
NSF IIS-1217559
PI: Christos Faloutsos
Co-PI Duen Horng Chau, Aniket Kittur
Funded. $528,578.00, 8/25/2012 - 8/31/2015
Identifying Risks to Psychological Distress in University Student Populations from Online Interaction Data
James Edenfield Faculty Fellowship, with Munmun De Choudhury (IC). One graduate student support for one academic year, co-advised by two College of Computing faculty.
Funded ~$25k, Fall 2015 - Spring 2016
Illuminating Paths to Success: Mining Common Sequences of Courses
Georgia Tech Professional Education
PI: Polo Chau
Funded: $18,625, 5/11/2015 - 8/1/2015
Data-Driven Decision-Making via Visual Analytics on the Microsoft Surface Hub
Microsoft
PI: John Stasko
Co-PIs:  Rahul Basole,    Alex Endert,    Polo Chau
Funded $25,000 and received an 84-inch Surface Hub.
Reimagining Humanities Visualization: A Research-Through-Design Workshop for Civic and Cultural Data
GVU research and engagement grant
PI: Lauren Klein
Co-PIs:  Rahul Basole,    Polo Chau,    Carl DiSalvo,    Alex Endert,    Jim Foley,    Nassim JafariNaimi,    Yanni Loukissas,    John Stasko,    Jimeng Sun
Discovery, Analysis, & Visualization of Pediatric Asthma Careflow
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta
PI: Rahul Basole
Co-PIs: Mark Braunstein, Nicoleta Serban, Duen Horng Chau Funded: $202,867
9/1/2014 – 8/31/2015
Proactive Detection of Insider Threats with Graph Analysis at Multiple Scales
PIs: T. Senator (SAIC) and D.A. Bader (GTRI)
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
Anomaly Detection at Multiple Scales (ADAMS) Program
Funded: $2,927,976 (GT portion), 5/1/2011 - 4/30/2013
Discovery, Analysis, and Visualization of Pediatric Careflow Processes
Raytheon Faculty Fellowship, with Rahul Basole (IC). One graduate student support for one academic year, co-advised by two College of Computing faculty. Funded ~$25k, Fall 2014 - Spring 2015
Gift
Google Faculty Research Award. 2015. $52,000.
200 server donation from Yahoo Labs, as part of Yahoo Servers to Academic Researchers program (Y-STAR). Thanks Seth Tropper!
Intel. Spring 2015. $40,000. Support for big data curriculum.
LogicBlox. Fall 2013 - Spring 2014: $12,500.
Symantec. Summer 2013: $10,000. April 2014: $26,000. Spring 2015: $40,000.
eBay. Summer 2014: $15,000.
Yahoo Faculty Research Engagement (FREP) award. 2014 - 2015: $10,000.
Yahoo sponsoring student seminars and distinguished lectures. 2014 - 2015: $13,500.
Georgia Tech Wearable Computing Center Mentorship Grant. $1000, Fall 2014. Advising undergraduate students Samuel Clarke and Nathan Dass
MS&T
Faculty Materials, Supplies and Travel Grants for Undergraduate Research, advising Mr. Dezhi (Andy) Fang and Nathan Dass. Awarded: $1000, summer 2017
Faculty Materials, Supplies and Travel Grants for Undergraduate Research, advising Mr. Yiqi (Victor) Chen. Awarded: $800, summer 2014
Faculty Materials, Supplies and Travel Grants for Undergraduate Research, advising Mr. Zhiyuan (Jerry) Lin. Awarded: $1000, summer 2013
Fellowship
Research proposals led to two full years of research funding from Symantec. Awarded:$140,000.
Co-author
$35 million DARPA proposal on Anomaly Detection at Multiple Scales (ADAMS). CMU funded ~$500,000. Co-authored the winning proposal, represented CMU and led research efforts.
Education Grant
Microsoft Azure Grant
2016 - 2017
$20,000 for CSE 6242 / CX 4242 Data and Visual Analytics
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Machine Learning Grant
Spring 15
$2500 credits for distributed machine learning research
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Teaching Grant
Spring 2015
$12000 credits for CSE 6242 / CX 4242 Data and Visual Analytics
Fall 2014
$14000 credits for CSE 6242 / CX 4242 Data and Visual Analytics
Spring 2014
$10000 credits for CSE 6242 / CX 4242 Data and Visual Analytics
Spring 2013
$4000 credits to CSE 6242 A / CS 4803 DVA Data and Visual Analytics
Unfunded
Helped in creating an NEC proposal for University Awards from NEC Labs Data Management. $75,000

Professional Activities

Conference Leadership
Program Co-chair
ACM Intelligent User Interfaces Conference (IUI) 2019
Co-Chair
VIS workshop on Visualization for AI Explainability (VISXAI) 2018
KDD workshop on Interactive Data Exploration and Analytics (IDEA): 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
ICML workshop on Visualization for Deep Learning: 2016, 2017
Steering Committee
ACM Intelligent User Interfaces Conference
Advisory Board
Southern Data Science Conference 2017
Co-chair
ACM Intelligent User Interfaces Conference (IUI) 2015
Publicity Chair
ACM WSDM Conference Series Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM) 2016
Publicity Chair
ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) 2014
Publicity Chair
IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) 2014
Journal Co-editor
ACM TKDD Special Issue on Interactive Data Exploration and Analytics (IDEA), 2015
NSF Review Panelist
Information and Intelligent Systems (IIS) Division. 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018
Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC). 2018
(CISE) Research Initiation Initiative (CRII). 2016.
Workshop Organizer
KDD workshop on Interactive Data Exploration and Analytics (IDEA)
    2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
ICML workshop on Visualization for Deep Learning
    2016, 2017
WWW 2014 workshop on Big Graph Mining (BGM)
Session Chair
SDM 2017: Classification
KDD 2015: Social Good
KDD 2014: Scaling-up Graph Algorithms
Conf Associate Chair
CHI 2018 (Engineering Interactive Systems and Technologies)
AVI 2014
Conf Program Committee
IEEE VIS (VAST) 2018
KDD 2013-2018
SDM 2014-2017 (SIAM International Conference on Data Mining)
ICDCS 2017
WSDM 2015, WSDM 2016
IUI 2016
ECML/PKDD 2013-2017
ASONAM 2015
SC14 (SuperComputing 2014) - Data Analytics, Visualization and Storage
Chinese CHI 2014
Workshop Program Committee
Visualization in Data Science (VDS 2017), at IEEE Vis 2017
IEEE Vis 2015 Workshop on Exploring Graphs at Scale (IEEE EGAS 2015)
WWW 2015 Workshop on Diffusion, Activity and Events in Networks: Models, Methods & Applications
WWW 2015 Workshop on Modeling Social Media - Behavioral Analytics in Social Media, Big Data and the Web
IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2014) workshop on Scalable Machine Learning: Theory and Applications
IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData 2014) workshop on Scalable Machine Learning: Theory and Applications
Reliability and Security Data Analysis (RSDA 2014)
ICDM workshop on Scalable Data Analytics: Theory and Applications
WWW 2014 workshop on Mining Big Data in Social Media and the Web (MSM)
ACM SAC 2014 (Symposium On Applied Computing)
KDD 2013 workshop on Outlier Detection and Description (ODD)
KDD 2014 workshop on Outlier Detection & Description under Data Diversity (ODD^2)
ICDM 2012 (Demo Session)
ECML PKDD 2012 Workshop on Instant Interactive Data Mining
NIPS 2011 workshop on parallel and large-scale machine learning (Big Learning)
CSCW 2012 workshop on Personal Information Management (PIM)
ASIST 2009 workshop on Personal Information Management (PIM)
Symposium Org.
The First Student Research Symposium. CMU/Machine Learning Department. 2009.
Journal Reviewer
TOCHI, 2015
IEEE’s Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 2014
ACM Computing Surveys, 2014
Statistical Analysis and Data Mining journal Special Issue of "Best of SDM 2014"
International Journal on Human-Computer Interaction (2014)
Data & Knowledge Engineering (DKE) Journal (2013)
IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (2013)
Software: Practice and Experience (2013)
IEEE Intelligent Systems (2012)
Parallel Computing (2011)
IBM Systems Journal (2007)
Conference Reviewer
SDM 2014-17
KDD 2013-17
ECML/PKDD 2008-09, 2013, 2015-17
ICDM 2012
WSDM 2015-16
WWW 2008-10
IEEE BigData 2014
IEEE Vis 2017
CHI 2007-16
UIST 2007-10, 2014
IUI 2012-16
AVI 2014
SuperComputing (SC) 2014
NIPS 2013
VLDB 2008-09
HICSS 2013
International Cross Domain Conference and Workshop (CD-ARES 2013)
Seminar Organizer
Machine Learning Lunch Seminar. CMU/Machine Learning Department. 2008-2011.
CSE Seminar Co-organizer. GT/CSE. 2012–2013 AY.
Member
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Since 2006.
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Since 2006.
HCIC (Human Computer Interaction Consortium)
Machine Learning Department (CMU) website committee

Services At Georgia Tech

Institute
Associate Director, Masters of Science in Analytics. Since 8/2014.
Machine Learning Faculty Advisory Committee
Academic Faculty Senate Representative for CSE, 2015-2018 AY
Institute for Information Security & Privacy (IISP) faculty council member. Since 6/2015
Strategic Energy Institute (SEI) faculty member
Institute for Data Engineering and Science (IDEaS) faculty member
Center for Machine Learning (ML@GT) faculty member
College of Computing
Machine Learning Area Leader. Since 8/2018.
CSE
School Honors Committee, 2018–2019 AY, 2019–2020 AY
School Reappointment, Promotion, and/or Tenure (RPT) Committee, 2018–2019 AY, 2019–2020 AY
School Advisory Committee (SAC), 2013-2014 AY, 2014-2015 AY, 2015–2016 AY, 2016–2017 AY
Graduate Admissions Committee (CS, CSE programs), 2012–2013, 2013–2014 AY (Chair of CSE), 2015–2016 AY, 2017–2018 AY, 2018–2019 AY
PhD Recruiting Committee (Chair of CSE), 2012–2013 AY, 2013–2014 AY
CSE Chair Search Committee Member, 2012–2013 AY, 2019-2020 AY
CSE Seminar Co-organizer, 2012–2013 AY
Space Planning Committee, 2012–2013 AY
Created State of CSE info graphics
IC + CSE
Visual Analytics area coordinator (with Alex Endert of IC), MS CS, 2014-2017
PhD Thesis
Xiaochen Zhang. GT/ECE. Adv: Santiago Grijalva. Defense: 7/24/17.
Ahmet Cecen. GT/CSE. Adv: Surya Kalidindi. Proposal: 2/1/17. Defense: 7/20/17
Mengmeng (Helen) Liu. GT/CSE. Adv: David Frost. Proposal: 4/18/17. Defense: 8/14/17.
Young Jin Kim. GT/CSE. Adv: Dimitri Mavris. Co-adv: Richard Fujimoto. Proposal: 2/9/17. Defense: 7/28/17.
Youngchul Park. GT/CSE. Adv: Dimitri Mavris. Proposal: 11/18/16.
Hillol Sarker. Univ. of Memphis/CS. Adv: Santosh Kumar. Proposal: 4/8/16. Defense: 11/4/16.
James Fairbanks. GT/CSE. Adv: David Bader. Defense: 3/28/16.
Kunal Malhotra. GT/CS. Adv: Sham Navathe. Co-adv: Jimeng Sun. Proposal: 12/8/15. Defense: 11/7/16.
Ramakrishnan (Ramki) Kannan. GT/CS. Adv: Haesun Park. Proposal: 5/5/15. Defense: 2/22/16.
Joonseok Lee. GT/CSE. Adv: Guy Lebanon, Hongyuan Zha. Defense: 2/19/15.
Long Tran. GT/CSE. Adv: Hongyuan Zha, Alex Gray. Proposal: 9/10/14. Defense: 1/6/15, GT/CSE
Saeideh Bakhshi, GT/IC. Adv: Eric Gilbert. Defense: 7/1/14
Da Kuang, GT/CSE. Adv: Haesun Park. Defense: 6/12/14
Albert Brzeczko, GT/ECE. Adv: John Copeland. Defense: 4/2/14
Liangda Li, GT/CSE. Adv: Hongyuan Zha. Proposal: 4/9/2014. Defense: 4/22/15
Mengdie Hu. GT/IC. Adv: John Stasko. Proposal: 12/11/13. Defense: 4/5/17
Zhaoming Yin. GT/CSE. Adv: David Bader. Proposal: 4/26/2013.
Oded Green. GT/CSE. Adv: David Bader. Proposal: 3/26/2013. Defense: 3/14/2014.
Ke Zhou. GT/CSE. Adv: Hongyuan Zha. Proposal: 1/24/2013. Defense: 8/6/13
Soumitry Ray. GT/Civil Eng. Adv: Jochen Teizer. Proposal: 11/21/2012. Defense: 3/24/2014
PhD Qualifying Exam
Siddharth Biswal. GT/CSE. Adv: Jimeng Sun. TDB
Sungtae An. GT/CSE. Adv: Jimeng Sun. TDB
Srinivas Eswar. GT/CSE. Adv: Rich Vuduc, Haesun Park. TDB
Yuzhi Guo. GT/CSE. Adv: David Frost. TDB
Apaar Shanker. GT/CSE. Adv: Surya Kalidindi. TDB
Robert Chen. GT/CSE. Adv: Jimeng Sun. 3/15/17
Amrita Gupta. GT/CSE. Adv: Bistra Dilkina. 11/30/16
Caleb Robinson. GT/CSE. Adv: Bistra Dilkina. 11/22/16
Hyunjee Jin. GT/CSE. Adv: Dimitri Mavris. 11/21/16
Fred Hohman. GT/CSE. Adv: Polo Chau. 11/17/16
Edward Choi. GT/CSE. Adv: Jimeng Sun. 11/9/16
Saman Yarmohammadi. GT/School of Building Construction. Adv: Baabak Ashuri. 12/16
Shang-Tse Chen. GT/CS. Adv: Polo Chau. 3/29/16
Sarah Karamanti. GT/CSE. Adv: Rich Vuduc. 12/3/15
Young Jin Kim. GT/CSE. Adv: Dimitri Marvris. 11/23/15
Youngchul Park. GT/CSE. Adv: Dimitri Marvris. 11/23/15
Bo Dai. GT/CSE. Adv: Le Song. 4/22/15
Minsuk (Brian) Kahng. GT/CS. Adv: Polo Chau. 4/29/15
Mehrdad Farajtabar. GT/CSE. Adv: Edmond Chow. 11/25/2014
Lluis Miquel Munguia. GT/CSE. Adv: David Bader. 11/8/13
James Fairbanks. GT/CSE. Adv: David Bader. 10/9/13.
Bo Xie. GT/CS. Adv: Haesun Park, Le Song. 11/5/14
Kunal Malhotra. GT/CS. Adv: Sham Navathe. 4/22/13
Ramakrishnan (Ramki) Kannan. GT/CSE. Adv: Haesun Park. 3/29/13
Chad Stolper. GT/IC. Adv: John Stasko. 3/27/13
Anita Zakrzewska. GT/CSE. Adv: David Bader. 12/6/12
Robert Pienta. GT/CSE. Adv: Richard Fujimoto. 10/5/12
Masters Thesis
Aroua Gharbi. GT/CSE. Adv: Dimitri Mavris. Defense: 11/18/16
Kevin flansburg. GT/CS. Adv: Taesoo Kim. Defense: 11/23/15
Kaushik Patnaik. GT/CSE. Adv: Le Song
Adam Coulon. GT/CSE (Aerospace Eng). Scott Duncan (Chair), Dimitri Mavris. Proposal: 4/2/14. Defense: 11/10/14.
Misc
Mascot Task Force committee member. Carnegie Mellon University. 2006.
The Chinese University of Hong Kong 40th Anniversary Concert committee. 2004.

Skills

  1. HCI
    • Contextual inquiry
    • Think-aloud protocol
    • Cognitive walkthrough
    • Heuristic evaluation
    • GOMS
    • Persona
    • Focus groups
    • Rapid paper prototyping
  2. Programming
    • Java
    • C++
    • C
    • SQL
    • VB
    • Assembly
    • JavaScript
    • ActionScript
    • CSS
    • PHP
    • ASP
    • XML
    • HTML
  3. Design
    • Photoshop
    • Illustrator
    • Premiere
    • InDesign
    • Flash
    • Lightwave 3D
    • 3D Studio MAX
  4. Music
    • Pianist (20+ years)
    • Cellist (20+ years)
    • High school string orchestra conductor
    • Chamber music group member
    • Choir member
  5. Languages
    • English
    • Mandarin
    • Cantonese (native)