Chen Chen
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Ph.D., Associate Professor |
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Prospective Students
I am always looking for highly motivated students for research. Please read this Ph.D. opening document for detailed research topics and requirements.
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Research Interests
Computer Vision
Generative AI
Image and Video Processing
News
- 04/2025, I’m honored to receive the Excellence in Faculty Academic Advising Award. [Award]
- 02/2025, 3 papers accepted by CVPR 2025.
- 01/2025, 2 papers accepted by ICLR 2025.
- 12/2024, We will organize the 4th Workshop on Federated Learning for Computer Vision (FedVision-2025), in conjunction with CVPR 2025. [Workshop Website]
- 12/2024, We will organize a tutorial on "Cross-View Geo-Localization: Current Challenges and Future Frontiers with GenAI", in conjunction with WACV 2025. [Tutorial Website]
- 11/2024, We will organize the 2nd CV4Smalls Workshop - Computer Vision with Small Data: A Focus on Infants, Toddlers, and the Elderly, in conjunction with WACV 2025. [Workshop Website]
- 10/2024, I received the 2024 Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine of Florida (ASEMFL) Rising Star Award in Engineering. [News article]
- 10/2024, 3 papers accepted by WACV 2025.
- 09/2024, 3 papers accepted by NeurIPS 2024.
- 07/2024, Our BiomedGPT paper has been accepted by Nature Medicine. Congratulations to all the authors!
- 07/2024, 5 papers accepted by ACM Multimedia 2024.
- 06/2024, 7 papers accepted by ECCV 2024.
- 02/2024, My Ph.D. student Ce Zheng received the 2023-2024 university award for the Outstanding Dissertation in the Engineering, Physical, Mathematical, and Life Sciences category at UCF. Congratulations to Ce! His dissertation title: "Reconstructing 3D Humans from Visual Data".
- 01/2024, Our project of AI Research for Novel Agricultural Engineering Applications (in partnership with the NSF AI Institute - AgAID (Agricultural AI for Transforming Workforce and Decision Support)) was funded by NIFA. [News article]
- 01/2024, I was honored to deliver a presentation titled "AI in Healthcare: From Image Analysis to Generative Models in Biomedicine" at the Mayo Clinic Florida, as part of the Cancer Biology Seminar Series. Thanks Dr. Sherman for the invitation. [Presentation Slide]
- 01/2024, 1 paper accepted by ICLR 2024 (Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning in Deep Metric Learning).
- 12/2023, We were selected as a finalist for the MICCAI 2023 Young Scientist Publication Impact Award for our paper titled "TransBTS: Multimodal Brain Tumor Segmentation Using Transformer", originally presented at MICCAI 2021. [Acknowledgement Letter]
- 12/2023, 3 papers accepted by AAAI 2024 (1 Few Shot Segmentation, 1 Deep Metric Learning, 1 Human Motion Prediction).
- 11/2023, Ce Zheng has successfully completed his PhD defense. Congratulations Dr. Zheng! He also won the Outstanding Dissertation Award of CECS. He will join Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) as a Postdoc Associate in Feb. 2024. [Defense Presentation]
Awards and Honors
- 2015, University of Texas at Dallas Graduate Research Travel Award.
- 2016, David Daniel Fellowship Award (Best Doctoral Dissertation Award), University of Texas at Dallas.
- 2019, ACM Multimedia Travel Grant.
- 2019, UNC-Charlotte Faculty Research Award.
- 2022, CVPR Best Paper Finalists. [Paper: "Local Learning Matters: Rethinking Data Heterogeneity in Federated Learning"].
- 2022 - 2024, Recognized among "World’s top 2% scientists" by Stanford University/Elsevier.
- 2023, Finalist for the MICCAI Young Scientist Publication Impact Award. [Recognition letter]
- 2023,
Winner of the Affordance-Centric Question-driven Task Completion Challenge at the CVPR 2023 Long-form Video Understanding and Generation Workshop
[Certificate] [Technical Report] [Code] - 2024, The Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine of Florida (ASEMFL) Rising Stars Award. [Citation for award] [News report]
- 2025, Excellence in Faculty Academic Advising Award at University of Central Florida. [Award]
