Xia Hu

Dr. Xia “Ben” Hu is an associate professor at Rice University in the department of computer science. Dr. Hu has published more than 100 papers in several major academic venues, including NeurIPS, ICLR, KDD, WWW, IJCAI, and AAAI. An open source package developed by his group, namely AutoKeras, has become the most-used automated deep learning system on GitHub (with over 8,000 stars and 1,000 forks). Also, his work on deep collaborative filtering, anomaly detection, and knowledge graphs has been included in the TensorFlow package, Apple production system, and Bing production system, respectively. His papers have received several Best Paper (Candidate) awards from venues such as WWW, WSDM, and ICDM. He is the recipient of an NSF CAREER Award and the ACM SIGKDD Rising Star Award. His work has been cited more than 10,000 times with an h-index of 43. He was the conference general co-chair for WSDM 2020.

books by Xia Hu

Automated Machine Learning in Action
  • March 2022
  • ISBN 9781617298059
  • 336 pages
Included with a Manning Online subscription
  • printed in black & white
  • Available translations: Korean, Simplified Chinese
catalog / Data Science / Machine Learning / Automated Machine Learning

Automated Machine Learning in Action shows you how to save time and get better results using AutoML. As you go, you’ll learn how each component of an ML pipeline can be automated with AutoKeras and KerasTuner. The book is packed with techniques for automating classification, regression, data augmentation, and more. The payoff: Your ML systems will be able to tune themselves with little manual work.