Bio

Duen Horng (“Polo”) Chau helps make interactions with computers easier and more secure. He is an assistant professor at the School of Computational Science & Engineering in the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and an associate director of the master’s in analytics degree program. Chau’s research lab bridges data mining and HCI to solve large-scale, real-world problems by developing scalable, interactive, and interpretable tools for big data analytics. The lab’s patented Polonium malware detection technology protects 120 million people worldwide. Its auction fraud detection research was widely covered by media, and its fake review detection research received the “Best Student Paper” award at the 2014 SIAM Data Mining Conference. Chau has been honored with faculty awards from Google, Yahoo, and LexisNexis; a Raytheon Faculty Fellowship; Edenfield Faculty Fellowship, and Outstanding Junior Faculty Award. He is the only two-time Symantec Fellow and an award-winning designer. Chau holds a doctorate in machine learning and a master’s in human-computer interaction (HCI). His doctorate thesis won Carnegie Mellon’s Computer Science Dissertation Award, Honorable Mention.