Faculty Profiles

Colleges and Departments
Portrait of Dr. Byron Gao

Dr. Byron Gao

  • Associate Professor at Computer Science, College of Science & Engineering

Service Activities

Ongoing

  • Chair, Search Committee. September 1, 2021 - Present.
  • Member, Search Committee. September 2013 - Present.
  • Member, Scholarship Committee. 2012 - Present.
  • Member, Graduate Committee. 2009 - Present.

2024

  • Reviewer / Referee, SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM). 2024.
  • Reviewer / Referee, IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM). 2024.
  • Reviewer / Referee, National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). 2024.
  • Reviewer / Referee, ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD). 2024.
  • Reviewer / Referee, IEEE Transactions on Services Computing. 2024.

2023

  • Reviewer / Referee, SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM). 2023.
  • Reviewer / Referee, IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM). 2023.
  • Reviewer / Referee, National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). 2023.
  • Member, Graduate Comprehensive Exams. 2008 - January 1, 2023.

2022

  • Reviewer / Referee, SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM). 2022.
  • Reviewer / Referee, ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD). 2022.
  • Reviewer / Referee, IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM). 2022.
  • Reviewer / Referee, National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). 2022.
  • Member, Data Science Minor Workgroup. October 2021 - 2022.
  • Member, Ph.D Committee. January 2017 - January 2022.

2021

  • Reviewer / Referee, SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM). 2021.
  • Reviewer / Referee, ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD). 2021.
  • Reviewer / Referee, IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM). 2021.

2020

  • Reviewer / Referee, SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM). 2020.
  • Reviewer / Referee, ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD). 2020.

2019

  • Reviewer / Referee, ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD). 2019.
  • Reviewer / Referee, European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML/PKDD). 2019.
  • Reviewer / Referee, International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM). 2019.
  • Reviewer / Referee, SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM). 2019.

2018

  • Reviewer / Referee, European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML/PKDD). 2018.
  • Reviewer / Referee, International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM). 2018.
  • Reviewer / Referee, IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM). 2018.
  • Award Committee, Graduate College's Master's Thesis Award Committee for the Physical Sciences, Math, and Engineering. 2018.
  • Reviewer / Referee, International World Wide Web Conference (WWW). 2018.
  • Reviewer / Referee, ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD). 2018.
  • Reviewer / Referee, SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM). 2018.
  • Local Chair, 2018 ACM SIGMOD/PODS Conference. 2017 - 2018.
  • University Mentor, Faculty Mentor for SPARK Scholars Program. 2014 - 2018.
  • University Mentor, H-LSAMP (Houston-Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation Scholar’s Program). 2009 - 2018.

2017

  • Reviewer / Referee, ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD). 2017.
  • Reviewer / Referee, IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM). 2017.
  • Reviewer / Referee, European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML/PKDD). 2017.
  • Reviewer / Referee, International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM). 2017.
  • Reviewer / Referee, SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM). 2017.
  • Reviewer / Referee, ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD). 2017.
  • Reviewer / Referee, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE). 2008 - 2017.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Applied Intelligence. 2008 - 2017.

2016

  • Reviewer / Referee, ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD). 2016.
  • Reviewer / Referee, IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM). 2016.
  • Reviewer / Referee, European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML/PKDD). 2016.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (DMKD). 2008 - 2016.
  • Reviewer / Referee, ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD). 2008 - 2016.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Knowledge and Information Systems: An International Journal (KAIS). 2008 - 2016.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Data and Knowledge Engineering (DKE). 2008 - 2016.
  • Reviewer / Referee, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation (TEVC). 2008 - 2016.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Discrete Applied Mathematics. 2008 - 2016.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Computational Intelligence. 2008 - 2016.
  • Reviewer / Referee, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B (TSMCB). 2008 - 2016.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Expert Systems with Applications. 2008 - 2016.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Journal of Computer Science and Technology. 2008 - 2016.

2015

  • Invited Speaker, Discrete Mathematics Seminar. 2015.
  • Proposal Reviewer, NSF BigData Panelist. 2015.
  • Reviewer / Referee, ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD). 2015.
  • Reviewer / Referee, IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM). 2015.
  • Reviewer / Referee, European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML/PKDD). 2015.

2014

  • Representative, Department REP. 2014.
  • NSF BigData Panelist. 2014.
  • Reviewer / Referee, European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML/PKDD). 2014.
  • Reviewer / Referee, IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM). 2014.
  • Reviewer / Referee, International World Wide Web (WWW demo track). 2014.

2013

  • Member, Search Committee. 2013.
  • Reviewer / Referee, IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM). 2013.
  • Co-Chair, The 1st International Workshop on Internet of Things. 2013.
  • Judge, Travis Elementary Science Fair. December 10, 2013.

2012

  • Invited Speaker, Math Awareness month: Mathematics, Statistics, and the Data Deluge. 2012.
  • Proposal Reviewer, NSF III (Information Integration and Informatics) proposal review. 2012.
  • Reviewer / Referee, IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM). 2012.
  • Reviewer / Referee, SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM). 2012.

2011

  • Reviewer / Referee, IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM). 2011.
  • Reviewer / Referee, European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML/PKDD). 2011.
  • Reviewer / Referee, ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD). 2011.
  • Reviewer / Referee, SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM). 2011.
  • Co-Chair, The 23rd IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI), Special Session on Stream Data Mining (SDM). 2011.

2010

  • Reviewer / Referee, ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD). 2010.
  • Reviewer / Referee, International Conferences on Web-Age Information Management (WAIM). 2010.
  • Reviewer / Referee, International Conference on Web Information Systems and Mining (WISM). 2010.

2009

  • Invited Speaker, WISE (Women in Science and Engineering Conference) organized by Texas State University College of Science and Engineering. 2009.
  • External Reviewer, COMAD. 2009.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Joint International Conferences on Asia-Pacific Web Conference (APWeb) and Web-Age Information Management (WAIM). 2009.
  • Reviewer / Referee, International Conference on Web Information Systems and Mining (WISM). 2009.

2008

  • Invited Speaker, Discrete Mathematics Seminar. 2008.

2006

  • External Reviewer, KDD. 2006.

2005

  • External Reviewer, KDD. 2005.
  • External Reviewer, ICDM. 2005.
  • External Reviewer, ICML. 2005.