Chao Zhang

Chao Zhang is an Assistant Professor in the School of Computational Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology. His research area is data mining and machine learning. He is particularly interested in developing label-efficient and robust learning techniques, with applications in text mining and spatiotemporal data mining. Chao has published more than 40 papers in top-tier conferences and journals, such as KDD, WWW, SIGIR, VLDB, and TKDE. He is the recipient of the ECML/PKDD Best Student Paper Runner-up Award (2015), Microsoft Star of Tomorrow Excellence Award (2014), and the Chiang Chen Overseas Graduate Fellowship (2013). His developed technologies have received wide media coverage and been transferred to industrial companies. Before joining Georgia Tech, he obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2018.