Wei-Lun (Harry) Chao, PhD
Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Wei-Lun (Harry) Chao is an Associate Professor in Electrical & Computer Engineering at Boston University. His research focuses on machine learning and computer vision, with applications spanning visual recognition, autonomous driving, Imageomics (biodiversity & ecology), and healthcare. He aims to develop fundamental understandings and robust, widely applicable algorithms to tackle real-world challenges. He is particularly interested in learning from imperfect data, including limited, noisy, heterogeneous, distribution-shifting, and inaccessible data. He has published more than 70 papers in first-tier conferences on computer vision, machine learning, artificial intelligence, robotics, and natural language processing. His contributions have been recognized by several awards and honors, including the BU Peter J. Levine Career Development Professorship (2025), the OSU Early Career Distinguished Scholar Award (2025), and the CVPR Best Student Paper Award (2024).
Chao’s research areas include: computer vision and machine learning, with applications spanning visual recognition, autonomous driving, imageomics (biodiversity & ecology), and healthcare.
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