Alok Choudhary

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ABOUT ALOK CHOUDHARY

Dr. Alok Choudhary is the Harold Washington chair Professor of ECE and CS at Northwestern University. He has also teaches at the Kellogg School of Management. He was the founder and chairman of 4C insights,(an AI/datascience company for omnichannel marketing and advertising) which was acquired by MediaOcean. He served as the Chief Scientist and Board member of MediaOcean. He is on the board of Kinetiq an AI software company for media measurement and computer vision. He is also the chairmain of Matrice.ai, an AI based company for computer vision applications.He has received numerous prestigious awards including NSF\'s Presidential Young Investigator Award, an IBM Faculty award, and an Intel Research award. He is a fellow of ACM and American Academy of Sciences. In 2017, Dr. Choudhary was listed by AdWeek as a “trailblazer and pioneer” in marketing technology and was awarded with the “Technology Manager of The Year in Chicago” in 2018, at the TIMMYawards. Dr. Choudhary has published more than 500 research papers has graduated 50+ PhD students. He holds several patents. He has given keynotes in almost all major international conferences in his fields of, and given more than 50 invited talks at conferences, businesses and universities. His work has also appeared in main stream media including New York Times, Chicago Tribune, The Telegraph, The Investor Business Daily, ABC, NPR, PBS and others.His research over the last two decades focused on big data science, supercomputing, scalable data mining, Machine Learning and their applications in sciences (e.g. climate understanding, astrophysics, materials etc.), medicine (e.g, disease causes, outcome predictions, drug design, etc.) and business applications (e.g, business intelligence, marketing, advertising). Dr. Choudhary has consulted for many companies including Intel, IBM, SPSS, Teradata, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, Newsbank, Southwest Airlines, Sony, Publicis Group, Portland Group, Lucent, Oliver Weinmen, AT & T, Netezza and many others. In addition, he has advised, consulted and done projects with DARPA, Department of Defense, NASA, NSA, Air Force, NSF, NIH, NIST, and the DOE. He serves on many panels and committees and has advised various governments in US and abroad.