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Dr. Byron Gao

  • Associate Professor - Computer Science
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Biography and education

Byron Gao is an associate professor of computer science at Texas State University. He joined Texas State in 2008, was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Wisconsin in 2007-2008, and received Ph.D. in 2007 and B.Sc. in 2003 from Simon Fraser University. His research spans several related fields of data mining, databases, information retrieval and bioinformatics.
  • Ngu, Anne H. (Principal), Percent Contribution: %50, Gao, Ju (Co-Principal), Percent Contribution: %50. REU SITE: Multidisciplinary Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Internet of Things, NSF-CISE, Federal, $323481. (Funded: March 1, 2014 - February 18, 2019). Grant.
  • Lu, Yijuan (Principal), Ngu, Anne H. (Co-Principal), Gao, Ju (Co-Principal), Chen, Xiao (Co-Principal), Qasem, Apan Muhammad (Co-Principal). II-NEW: Shared High Performance Data Center, NSF CISE CRI Program, Federal, $375756. (Funded: 2013 - 2019). Grant.
  • Ngu, Anne H. (Principal), Percent Contribution: %50, Gao, Ju (Co-Principal), Percent Contribution: %50. REU Site: Research Experiences in New Paradigms of Information Retrieval from Diverse Data, NSF-OCI, Federal, $359827. (Funded: March 1, 2011 - February 28, 2014). Grant.
  • Metsis, Vangelis (Principal), Ngu, Hee Hiong (Co-Principal), Gao, Ju (Co-Principal), Shi, Hongchi (Co-Principal), Guirguis, Mina S (Co-Principal), Gu, Qijun (Co-Principal). Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN), U.S. Department of Education, Federal, $728150. (Submitted: February 2021, Funded: October 1, 2021 - September 30, 2025). Grant.
  • Ngu, Anne H.H. (Principal), Gao, Byron J. (Co-Principal). Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) Supplements, NSF, Federal, $20000. (Funded: June 1, 2016 - May 30, 2017). Grant.
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  • Gao, B. J. (2024). Introducing the Converse k-clustering problem. In IEEE International Conference on Big Data.
  • Gao, B. J. (2023). Introducing the partial clustering problem. In IEEE International Conference on Big Data.
  • Sotelo Jimenez, R. J., Medishetty, B., & Gao, B. J. (2022). COMPA: A Comparative Retrieval and Analytical Engine for Consumer Products. In IEEE International Conference on Big Data.
  • Hui, A., & Gao, J. (2021). When is Nearest Neighbor Meaningful: Sequential Data. In ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM).
  • Gao, B. J. (2020). Pattern Exploration as Keyword Search. In IEEE International Conference on Big Data.
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  • Award / Honor Recipient: Named by one graduate as a person at Texas State University who made a contribution to their academic career. 2019
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Keynote Speech Invitation from ICDS 2019 conference, The Sixth International Conference on Data Science. May 2019
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Named by 2 graduates as a person at Texas State University who made a contribution to their academic career. 2016
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Named by one graduate as a person at Texas State University who made a contribution to their academic career. 2014
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Favorite Professor, Alpha Chi National College Honor Society. 2013
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