His research interests include distributed multimedia database management systems and multimedia data mining. Chen received the best paper award from the 2006 IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia. He was awarded the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society's Outstanding Contribution Award in 2005 and was corecipient of the IEEE Most Active Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Technical Committee Award in 2006. He is the editor in chief of International Journal of Multimedia Data Engineering and Management. Contact him at chens@cs.fiu.edu.