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Biography

Helen Gu is the founder and CEO of InsightFinder Inc. She is also a professor in the Department of Computer Science at North Carolina State University and leads a research group supported by over $4.2 million in research grants from the NSF, NSA, ARO, Google, IBM, and Credit Suisse. She has published over 80 scientific articles and filed 10 patents (all granted). Her research group’s website is http://dance.csc.ncsu.edu/

Helen was on sabbatical at Google as a visiting scientist in 2015, helping Google evaluate the patented unsupervised behavioral learning (UBL) algorithm, co-invented by her and her doctoral student. Google licensed the UBL technology based on the superior accuracy achieved by UBL on real-world system failure data. She also worked at the IBM TJ Watson research center as a member of the research team from 2004 to 2007, working on IBM’s stream processing system called System S, which later became IBM’s InfoSphere Stream product.

Helen Gu received her PhD in Computer Science from UIUC in 2004 and her bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Peking University in 1999. Her work has been widely publicized in the press, including NSF research highlights, Communications of ACM, and The Register, and has won several best paper awards at prestigious international conferences.