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Dr. Tao Hou is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oregon. Before joining UO in Sep 2024, he was an Assistant Professor in the School of Computing at DePaul University since Jun 2022. He obtained his doctoral degree in May 2022 from the Department of Computer Science at Purdue University. His PhD thesis is on 'Homological Representatives in Topological Persistence'. He got his Master's degree in Software Engineering from Tsinghua University (China) in 2013 and his Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering from Beijing Institute of Technology (China) in 2010. After obtaining his master's degree, he worked in the industry as a software engineer in China for three years for companies such as VMware Inc. and Baidu Inc.