Prof. Alok Choudhary
Dever Chair Professor, Electrical and
Computer Engineering
Professor, Computer Science
Professor, Kellogg School of
Management
Director, Center for Ultra-Scale Computing
and Information Security (CUCIS)
Biography:
Dr. Alok Choudhary is a
professor, researcher and an entrepreneur. He is the Henry and Isabel Dever chaired Professor of Electrical
and Computer Engineering, professor of Computer Science and also teaches at
Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Dr. Alok Choudhary is
also the founder, chairman and chief scientist of 4C insights, a data science
software company. 4C was acquired by MediaOcean in
2020.
Dr.
Choudhary serves on the Secretary of Energy’s Advisory Board on Artificial
Intelligence.
Dr. Choudhary
served as the chair of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department
from 2007 to 2011 at Northwestern University.
He is a fellow of the joint Argonne-Northwestern Institute NAISE. From
1989 to 1996, Dr. Choudhary was on the faculty of the Electrical and Computer
Engineering Department at Syracuse University. Dr. Choudhary graduated with a PhD from
University of Illinois, Coordinated Science Lab, Urbana-Champaign in the field
of Supercomputing and Big Data Science. He received an M.S. degree from the
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, his B.E. (Hons.) degree from the Birla
Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India.
Awards
and Recognitions: Dr. Choudhary has received numerous prestigious awards including
National Science Foundation's Presidential Young Investigator Award, IEEE
Engineering Foundation award, an IBM Faculty award, and an Intel Research
Council award. Professor Choudhary is a fellow of the IEEE (Institute of
Electrical and Electronics Engineers), fellow of the ACM (Association of
Computing Machinery) and a fellow of the AAAS (American Academy of Advancement
of Science) - one of a select researcher, who is a fellow of top engineering,
computer science and science societies. He received the distinguished Alumni
award from Birla Institute of Technology and Science and Technology, Pilani, India in 2016.
In 2017, Dr. Choudhary was listed by AdWeek as
a “trailblazer and pioneer” in marketing technology. Prof Choudhary was also
awarded with the “Technology Manager of The Year in Chicago”, at the TIMMY
awards in 2018. In 2006 he received the first award for "Excellence in
Research, Teaching and Service" from the McCormick School of Engineering.
Research and
Innovation: Dr. Alok Choudhary has published more than
450 papers in
various journals and international conferences and has graduated 40+ PhD
students, including 10+ women PhDs, which is one of the highest. He holds
several patents. His papers have received the best paper awards in many
conferences. He has given keynotes in almost all major international
conferences in his fields, and given more than 100 invited talks at
conferences, businesses and universities. Dr. Choudhary’s work has also
appeared in main stream media in print, digital, TV and Radio.
His
research over the last two decades focused on big data science, supercomputing,
scalable data mining, Machine Learning/AI algorithms, software and their
applications in sciences (e.g. climate understanding,
astrophysics, cosmology, designing materials etc.), medicine (e.g, understanding diseases causes, outcome predictions,
drug design, surgeries etc.) and business applications (e.g,
business intelligence, marketing, advertising). Software and algorithms
developed by his group over the years is deployed and used in most
supercomputers in the world.
Consulting,
Advising and Leadership: Dr. Choudhary has consulted for many
companies including Intel, SPSS, Teradata, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, Newsbank, Southwest Airlines, Sony, Publicis Group,
Portland Group, Lucent, Oliver Weinmen, AT&T,
Netezza and many others. His research has been sponsored and supported by
DARPA, Department of Defense, NASA, Air Force, National Science Foundation,
National Institute of Health (NIH), NIST, and the Department of Energy.
He
served on a National Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine roundtable to
develop and recommend post-secondary data science education strategies. Prof.
Choudhary served as a Member of the National Academy of Science's committee on
"Impact of High-End Computing on Sciences", which was formed on
behalf of the Office of Science of the U. S. government and various federal
agencies. He has served and currently serves as board of director for multiple
companies.
He was also the co-founder
of Accelchip, a company that created software and
tools to synthesize FPGA logic configurations and circuits from high-level
languages such as MATLAB for DSP applications. Accelchip
was acquired by Xilinx in early 2006.
A
full list of my research projects can be found in CUCIS center. My research group
currently consists of 2 research professors, Wei-keng
Liao and Ankit
Agrawal, and many doctoral students. Their research projects and
publications can be found in CUCIS
center website. Also, visit the CUCIS website to use various AI models and
data mining and supercomputing software developed by our group over the years.
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Northwestern University |
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2145 Sheridan Rd. #L469 |
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Evanston, IL 60208 |
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(847) 467-4129 |
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a-choudhary AT
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