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Wei-Lun (Harry) Chao is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Ohio State University (OSU), College of Engineering. Promoted to this role in May 2025, he is also an Innovation Scholar and Distinguished Assistant Professor of Engineering Inclusive Excellence. His work spans machine learning, computer vision, and their applications in autonomous driving, healthcare, biology, and natural language processing.
- Research Focus: Machine learning with imperfect data, interpretable and personalized learning, robust perception for autonomous systems, and visual recognition in real-world scenarios.
- Awards: 2025 OSU Early Career Distinguished Scholar Award, CVPR Best Student Paper Award (2024), CSE Faculty Teaching Award (2024), Lumley Research Award (2023).
- Grants: Funded by NSF, NIH, ONR, Cisco, AWS, and Google.
Notable Research Trends: The 15 most recent articles highlight his work on vision foundation models, federated learning, diffusion models for biological species generation, interpretable vision transformers, and robust perception systems for autonomous driving. Key subfields include sparse autoencoders, 3D object detection, semi-supervised learning, and anomaly detection in scientific domains.
- Scientific Awards:
- 2025 Early Career Distinguished Scholar Award (OSU)
- CVPR Best Student Paper Award (2024)
- CSE Faculty Teaching Award (2024)
- Lumley Research Award (2023)
Mentoring & Grants: As an advisor for the OSU Buckeye AutoDrive Team and AI Club, he mentors graduate and undergraduate students. His research is supported by major grants from NSF, NIH, ONR, and industry partners like Cisco and Google.
