Dr Mai‘s main research focuses on high performance machine learning and data mining techniques for finding meaningful patterns from big complex data using modern hardware architectures such as multicore CPUs and GPUs. Besides that, he has worked on several other research topics in CS such as computer graphic, computational geometry, optimization techniques, local searches and metaheuristic searches, time series analysis, and constraint satisfactory problems. He is also interested in machine learning and data mining applications in other fields such as neuroscience, medicine, transportation, and public health.