Researcher biography

Rocky Tong Chen is currently a Lecturer and ARC DECRA Fellow with the Data Science Discipline, School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, The University of Queensland. His research has been focused on developing accurate, efficient, and trustworthy data mining solutions to discover actionable patterns and intelligence from large-scale user data to facilitate prediction and recommendation in a wide range of domains. To date, he has published 70+ peer-reviewed papers in the most prestigious conferences (e.g., KDD, SIGIR, WWW, ICDM, ICDE, AAAI and IJCAI) and journals (e.g., VLDBJ, IEEE TKDE, IEEE TNNLS, ACM TOIS and WWWJ). His publications have won 3 Best Paper Awards, 1 Best Paper Nomination, and 2 Travel Awards.