Jing Gao, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Purdue University’s Engineering Named Professorship Committee (ENPC) has selected Jing Gao to be a University Faculty Scholar. Gao, associate professor in the Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, was chosen due to her “outstanding accomplishments and contributions to the programs of the College of Engineering.” 

The University Faculty Scholars Program, offered through the Office of the Provost, is intended to recognize outstanding mid-career faculty who are on an accelerated path for academic distinction. Eligibility includes faculty who hold the rank of tenured associate or full professor who have been in rank for no more than five years and new hires at this academic level if appointed with tenure.

Gao’s research is in the area of data and information analysis with a focus on data mining. In particular, the focus is on information veracity analysis, crowdsourcing, knowledge graphs, multi-source data analysis, anomaly detection, transfer learning, text mining, and data stream mining. She is also interested in various data mining applications in health care, bioinformatics, transportation, social science, cyber security and education.

Gao says it’s an honor to be recognized as one of the university faculty scholars is a big honor.

“This shows a recognition of my research team's past work on several topics in data mining, including truth discovery, multi-source data analytics, and application-driven data mining,” she says. “I am very excited about the research that could be supported by this award and plan to work on accelerating the practical deployment of AI models in real-world applications by tackling some emerging challenges such as model efficiency, robustness, transparency and reliability.”

All University Faculty Scholars will be awarded for five years with an annual allocation of $10,000.