Xia Hu
Professor at AI POW LLC
College Station, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolXia "Ben" Hu is a professor and founding director of the DATA Lab whose work bridges theoretical machine learning and practical, open-source systems for large-scale, networked, and sparse data. He led development of widely used tools such as Auto-Keras and NeuralCF—projects that earned broad adoption and citations, and helped translate academic advances into production-ready recommender and automated deep learning systems. With over 120 peer-reviewed publications, three best paper awards, and more than 10,000 citations (h-index 41), he combines rigorous theory with measurable impact across AI, healthcare, cybersecurity, and materials science. He has secured over $12M in research funding, leads multiple DARPA and NSF projects, and co-founded AI POW to commercialize research. Mentoring a large, multidisciplinary lab, he has graduated multiple PhD and MS students while maintaining editorial and conference leadership roles. Notably, his career blends sustained industry collaboration and open-source influence—Auto-Keras’ GitHub popularity is a rare sign of academic software reaching widespread practitioner use.
7 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at Arizona State UniversityMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Beihang UniversityVisit Student Computer Science, Visit Student Computer Science at National University of Singapore
Github Skills (20)
pytorch10
python10
machine-learning10
keras10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
automl10
automated-machine-learning10
neural-architecture-search10
ranking7
science6
react6
computer-science5
xai5
robustness4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
xiabenhu/autokeras
Aug 2018 - Aug 2018
This is a automated machine learning (AutoML) package based on Keras.
Contributions:3 commits, 3 pushes in 1 day
pythondata-sciencedeep-learningautomated-machineautomated-machine-learning
keras-team/autokeras
Aug 2018 - Jun 2019
AutoML library for deep learning
Contributions:10 commits, 2 PRs, 7 pushes in 10 months
pytorchpythondeep-learningautomated-machine-learningneural-architecture-search
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