His research interests include machine learning, data mining, computer vision, bioinformatics, and robotics and control. Dr. Chen serves as an associate editor of Pattern Recognition and is a member of the ACM, the IEEE, the IEEE Computer Society, the IEEE Neural Networks Society,and the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society. Dr. Chen has published more than 100 publications including Journal of Machine Learning Research, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, BMC Bioinformatics, NIPS, ACM SIGMM, CVPR, ICDM, ICIP, ICRA.