Kehan Gao

Kehan Gao serves as a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Eastern Connecticut State University, teaching Software Engineering, Databases and Information Management, and Data Structures and Algorithms courses.

Her research focuses on:

• Software Engineering and Reliability
• Software Quality Engineering
• Data Mining & Machine Learning
• Computational Intelligence
• Software Metrics

With over 80 refereed publications, she specializes in software defect prediction using feature selection and data sampling techniques to address class imbalance. Recent work (2014-2025) extends these methodologies to Mars image classification and COVID-19 severity assessment, demonstrating cross-domain applicability of her ensemble learning approaches.

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