VP, head of R&D at Lucidworks. Ph.D. in Statistics from Virginia Tech. Worked at JPMorgan Chase R&D on transaction text mining, social media sentiment analysis, fraud detection, default prediction and target marketing. Joined SAS in 2015 to develop an in-memory multi-threaded analytic engine. Chao is now the head of data science at Lucidworks, working on recommendation, query analytics, automatic document clustering, and NLP.
Wednesday 9:15 AM–10:00 AM in Main Room, Tutorial Room