Jerry Gao
- Tuesdays: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
- Thursdays: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Jerry Zeyu Gao is a professor at the Department of Computer Engineering at San Jose State University. Now, he is the director of SJSU research center on Smart Technology, Computing, and Complex Systems. He had over 27 years of academic research and teaching experience and over 10 years of industry working and management experience on software engineering and IT development applications. He has published three technical books and over hundreds (350) publications in IEEE/ACM journals, magazines, international conferences and workshops. His Google Scholar citation is over 10K+ and his ResearchGate reads is over 382K+. His current research areas include machine learning, smart cities, AI test automation, AI clouds and mobile clouds. In 2010, Jerry Gao was recognized by University of Texas at Arlington as a distinguished Alumna for College of Engineering at its 50th anniversary. In 2011, he was awarded as a KSI Fellow in SEKE2011. In 2013, Dr. Gao received the College of Engineering Faculty Award for Excellence in scholarship, Dr. Gao served as an editorial board member and an associate editor for numerous international journals in software engineering, machine learning, and smart cities, such as IEEE Software, Journal of Smart Cities, Energies, and Agriculture. Dr. Gao has been included and listed in Marquis American Who's Who 2020-2022. In the last 10 years, Dr. Gao has played as one of the leaders in organizing many international conferences and workshops as a conference co-chair, program co-chair, and workshop co-chair. Now, he is the steering board chair for IEEE CISOSE congress and IEEE Future Technology Summit, and the steering board member for IEEE Smart World Congress. IEEE CISOSE congress includes IEEE BigDataService, IEEEAITest, IEEE Intelligent Mobile Cloud, IEEE SOSE, and IEEE DAPPS. In addition, he served as a chair for many other conferences, such as IEEE CAI2025, IEEE AITest2025, IEEE BigDataService*, IEEE MobileCloud*, IEEE Smart World Congress 2017, Smart City Innovation 2017, SEKE06-2016, IEEE SOSE2011-2013, ICYCS'05, TQACBS2005-2006, WMCS2004-2010, IEEE EMOBS07-08, TEST'07, and EECC2006. Recently, Dr. Gao has been invited by many international conferences as a keynote speaker to address topics in Ai Test Automation, Smart Cities, UAV AI cloud, Green Energy Ai Cloud, Smart Agricultures, and Intelligent Wildfire Platforms. 2025,
Current Research Interest:
- Smart Cities and Complex Systems
- Agriculture AI Cloud for Crop Farms, Livestock, and Fruit Ranches
- Smart Green Energy AI Cloud Platform and Machine Learning Models
- Smart Emergence AI cloud for wildfire detection, monitor, progression prediction & risk analysis
- Cloud Computing and Services, Software as a Service (SaaS), Mobile Cloud Services
- AI Test Automation and Standardization
- Testing as a Service (TaaS), Test Automation, and Mobile TaaS
- Big Data Computing Service, Engineering, and Applications
Education
9/1992 – 8/1995 Department of Computer Science and Engineering
The University of Texas At Arlington, Texas, USA
Ph.D. in ComputerScienceand Engineering
9/1986 – 12/1989 Department of Computer Science and Engineering
The University of Texas at Arlington
M.S. in Computer Science and Engineering (Thesis)
02/1978 - 02/1981 Studied and graduated from Computer Science
Department Nanjing University and HoHai University
B.S. in Computer Science
Academic Experience
9/2007 – Present San Jose State University, San Jose, USA
Full Professor Computer Engineering Department
Full Professor Applied Data Science Department
9/2002 – 5/2007 San Jose State University, San Jose, USA
Associate Professor Computer Engineering Department
9/1998 – 5/2002 San Jose State University, San Jose, USA
Assistant Professor Dept. of Computer, Information, and
System Engineering
6/1997 – 9/1998 San Jose State University, San Jose, USA.
Adjunct Professor Dept. of Computer, Information, and
System Engineering
9/1994 – 8/1995 The University of Texas at Arlington
Instructor Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering
