Jerry Gao

Jerry Gao is a Professor at San Jose State University, where he leads research at the intersection of data science, systems engineering, and applied machine learning. His work focuses on intelligent systems for smart cities and sustainable environments, with recent breakthroughs in deep reinforcement learning for autonomous vehicle audio intelligence, UAV-based transport management, and AI-driven testing for intelligent chatbots. He has also advanced smart green energy management for campuses and communities, integrating machine learning with renewable electricity cloud systems, and has applied remote sensing and reinforcement learning for early disease diagnosis in maize crops and carbon monitoring in agriculture. His research spans software testing, mobile computing, and big data analytics, supported by extensive international collaborations.