Rate My Professor Yong Pei

Yong Pei is Professor of Computer Science at Kennesaw State University in Marietta, Georgia, and serves as Chair of the Department of Computer Science from July 1, 2022, to June 30, 2026. Prior to his appointment at KSU in 2022, he was the LexisNexis Ohio Eminent Scholar, Professor, and Graduate Program Director of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, where he joined as an assistant professor in 2003. From 2002 to 2003, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida. He has been responsible for teaching and research in computer science, data science, and systems engineering.

Yong Pei earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2002, M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1999, and B.S. in Electrical Power Engineering from Tsinghua University in 1996. He also received a Certificate of Technology Commercialization from The Ohio State University and The Ohio Department of Higher Education through the I-Corps@Ohio program in 2017. His specific research interests include both basic and applied research in Human-AI Teaming, distributed collaborations, AIOps, AI/ML/NLP/CV, AR/VR/XR, HCI, IUX, serious games, mobile and sensory technologies. His interdisciplinary researches have been sponsored by over 30 grants from federal and state agencies as well as industry partners. His researches receive recognitions and coverages in American Inno, NPR, The New York Times, RAND Corp., U.S. News & World Report. In 2017, he led a Wright State University team to the Ohio Collegiate Venture Showcase. In 2018, he was awarded the top prize in the Ohio Opioid Technology Challenge, a worldwide competition for innovative ideas and technologies to fight the opioid crisis.