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George H. Chen

Postdoc, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT

MIT

Areas of expertise

  • - - Machine learning
  • - - Social data analytics
  • - - Medical image computing

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About me

George H. Chen (SM/EE/PhD from MIT, BS from UC Berkeley) is a postdoc at MIT in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and will start as an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz College of Public Policy and Information Systems in January 2017. He teaches, develops, studies, and applies machine learning and data analysis tools. His work has spanned a diverse range of applications such as forecasting trends on Twitter, recommending products to people in systems like Netflix, finding human organs in medical images, and detecting buildings in massive satellite images to help plan electrification projects in rural India. George enjoys teaching and has taught at the high school, undergraduate, and graduate levels.