Liang Zhao, PhD, is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at Emory University. Dr. Zhao is a member of the Cell and Molecular Biology Research Program at Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University. Prior to joining Emory, he was on faculty at George Mason University.
Education
Dr. Zhao earned his PhD in computer science from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia.
Titles & Roles
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science
Emory College of Arts and Sciences
Research
Dr. Zhao's research focuses on data mining, machine learning, and nonconvex optimization with special interests in deep learning on graphs, societal event prediction, interpretable machine learning, spatio-temporal data mining, sparse feature learning, social media mining, and distributed optimization of deep and nonconvex models.
