Biography
Dr. Weijia Xu is a research scientist and the group
manager for Data Mining & Statistics group at the Texas
Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at the University of
Texas at Austin. He has a doctoral degree in computer
science and a Master of Science degree in Life Science
from The University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Xu's main
research interest is to enable data-driven discoveries
through developing new computational methods and
applications. His work has been funded through various
local and federal agencies including The University of
Texas, TXDoT, NSF, NIH and NIFA. Dr. Xu has over 50
peer-reviewed conference and journal publications in
similarity-based data retrieval, data analysis, and
information visualization with data from various
scientific domains. He has served on program committees
for several workshops and conferences in big data and high
performance computing area, such as co-chair for IEEE
Conference on Big Data in 2015 and 2016.
Presentations
