Chih Lai
Graduate Programs in Software
University of Saint Thomas Saint Paul
United States of America
Biography
Dr. Lai is an associate professor with GPS. He has taught courses in Data Mining, Multimedia Information Retrieval, Healthcare Analytics, Real-Time Systems, and Software Engineering. He was also a visiting professor of the Informatics Department at Trier University of Applied Science in Germany in 2010. Dr. Lai also taught an Operating System course at the Computer Science Department of Oregon State University.Before joining University of St. Thomas, Dr. Lai was a principal software engineer, working on a next generation aircraft collision avoidance system (ADS-B) approved by FAA. Dr. Lai received three U.S. patents and three European patents, all related to aircraft collision avoidance algorithms. Dr. Lai also works with Medtronic and has pending patents on monitoring and evaluating Parkinson patients. Other industry experience includes building a network gateway between IBM / Novell networks.
Research Interest
Big Data Analytics, Data Mining, Multimedia Information Retrieval, and Healthcare Analytics.
