Dr Chao Wu is a Research Professor at School of Public Affairs, Zhejiang University. He is now the director of Computational Social Science Research Center (ZJUCCS). He is also an Honorary Research Fellow of Data Science Institute and Department of Computing, Imperial College London, the Director of Big Data Research Center – ZJPTCC, and an Adjunct Professor of Shanghai Institute for Advanced Study of Zhejiang University (SIAS).

His main research interests are distributed machine learning, privacy protection, and computable social analytics. He is also the creator of  Mo, which is web-based platform for both AI modelling and education.

In detail, his research covers:

Distributed AI (Galaxy Learning): A decentralized machine learning methodology based on Federated Learning. The research focuses on joint modelling for non-IID data, privacy protection, and data pricing. He is also developing an open source framework for it.

Computable Social Analytics: Datadriven methodology for social science research, including intelligent transportation, smart cites, and neuro-management, etc.