Professor Chow, Ka Ho

Ka-Ho Chow is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Hong Kong. He was named an IBM PhD Fellow in 2022 and a Croucher Scholar in 2021. Before joining HKU, he was a research scientist at IBM Research and received his Ph.D. in Computer Science at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), advised by Prof. Ling Liu.

Ka-Ho's research interests are at the intersection of machine learning, cybersecurity, and systems. The overarching goal is to amplify the real-world impact of artificial intelligence by building trustworthy and scalable technologies. To this end, his recent work focuses on (i) understanding new security and privacy threats to AI systems, (ii) developing attack-resilient solutions, and (iii) strengthening scalability through algorithmic and infrastructure optimization. These efforts span various learning approaches, including centralized and federated learning, and cover a range of applications such as large language models, object detection, and face recognition.

Recruitment: Ka-Ho has several openings for Ph.D. students (Fall 2024). If you are interested, please reach out to him via email.