- Dr. Chen's dissertation 'Demystifying Deep Network Architectures: From Theory to Applications' received the INNS 2024 Doctoral Dissertation Award and the iSchools Doctoral Dissertation Award 2024
- Grateful to receive the Google GCP Credit Award (Gemma Academic Program)
- Received the NSERC Discovery Grant
Research Experience
- Served as an area chair at ICLR 2025
- Served as an area chair at NeurIPS 2025
- Involved in several research projects on PDE-Controller
- Delivered talks at multiple international conferences including AAAI 2025, SIAM CSE25, etc.
Background
Research interests include but are not limited to: integrating AI methods with physics knowledge, developing principled deep learning methods, large language models (LLMs), computer vision, model efficiency, self-supervised learning, and automated machine learning (AutoML).
Miscellany
Welcomes self-motivated and proactive students to join his team for research.