Cen CHEN, Associate Professor, at School of Data Science and Engineering, East China Normal University
I'm currently an Associate Professor at East China Normal University. Before that, I worked at Ant Group from Aug 2017 to Aug 2021 (selected as Alistar 2017). I obtained a Ph.D. degree in Singapore Management University under the supervision of Professor Lau Hoong Chuin and Associate Professor Cheng Shih-fen from Jan 2013 to Jun 2017. From Aug 2015 to June 2016, I was visiting the Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, working with Professor Stephen F. Smith and Dr. Zack Rubinstein.
My recent works focus on trustworthy LLMs, privacy & AI security, and AIGC.
She led a number of research projects and established collaboration with the industry including Alibaba, Ant group, Tencent and etc.
Google scholar: https://scholar.google.com.sg/citations?hl=en&user=3Mn4S9UAAAAJ
I am looking for highly self-motivated master and Ph.D. students.
If you are interested in joining us, please drop me an email with your CV&transcript.
Email: cenchen@dase.ecnu.edu.cn or cecilia.cenchen@gmail.com
Patent
More than 30 patents are filed ( 30+ China Patents , 3 World Patents, 1 US patent); more than 10 patents are granted.
Funding
Jun. 2024 - Jun. 2025: Research and Implementation of GC-based SHA256 and AES Protocols
Joint Research Program with Ant Group, Principal Investigator
May. 2024 - May. 2025: Research on Intelligent, Controllable, and Secure Long Video Generation
Alibaba Innovative Research Program, Principal Investigator
May. 2024 - Apr. 2025: Key Technologies for Efficient and Secure Federated System
Open Research Fund of the State Key Laboratory of Blockchain and Data Security, Principal Investigator
Oct. 2023 - Oct. 2024: Video image data desensitization platform
Shanghai Motor Vehicle Inspection and Certification Technology Research Center, Principal Investigator
Jan. 2023 - Dec. 2025: Privacy Preserving Cross-silo Question-Answering Systems
National Natural Science Foundation, Principal Investigator
Nov. 2022 - Jan. 2024: Research on Privacy Protection Techniques for Pretrained Models
Joint Research Program with Ant Group, Principal InvestigatorOct. 2022 - Oct. 2025: Joint Lab for Financial Big Data Mining and Analytics
Joint Lab with Seek Data Inc., Principal InvestigatorJun. 2022 - Dec. 2023: Efficient, Controllable, and Secure Multimodal Pretraining
Alibaba Innovative Research Program, Principal InvestigatorMay. 2022 - Apr. 2024: Federated Learning for Multi-source Heterogeneous Scenarios
Open Research Fund of KLATASDS-MOE, Principal Investigator
Journal & Conference
### Accepted papers (* denotes corresponding author)
2025
Comprehensive Assessment and Analysis for NSFW Content Erasure in Text-to-Image Diffusion Models, arXiv.
LSSF: Safety Alignment for Large Language Models through Low-Rank Safety Subspace Fusion, arXiv.
LFH-DM: Long-Form Hallucination Detection and Mitigation Based on Knowledge Mastery-Level and Intrinsic Representation Feedback, arXiv.
CCJA: Context-Coherent Jailbreak Attack for Aligned Large Language Models, arXiv.
On the Trustworthiness Landscape of State-of-the-art Generative Models: A Survey and Outlook, IJCV 2025 (CCF-A).
Mingyuan Fan, Chengyu Wang, Cen Chen*, Yang Liu, Jun Huang
A Review and Experimental Evaluation on Split Learning, Future Internet 2024.
Zhanyi Hu, Tianchen Zhou, Bingzhe Wu, Cen Chen*, Yanhao Wang.
Bad-PFL: Exploiting Backdoor Attacks against Personalized Federated Learning. ICLR 2025.
Mingyuan Fan, Zhanyi Hu, Fuyi Wang, Cen Chen*
Growth Inhibitors for Suppressing Inappropriate Image Concepts in Diffusion Models. ICLR 2025.
Die Chen, Zhiwen Li, Mingyuan Fan, Cen Chen*, Wenmeng Zhou, Yanhao Wang, Yaliang Li
Responsible Diffusion Models via Constraining Text Embeddings within Safe Regions. TheWebConf 2025 (CCF-A).
Zhiwen Li, Die Chen, Mingyuan Fan, Cen Chen*, Yaliang Li, Yanhao Wang, Wenmeng Zhou
Transferable Adversarial Examples with Bayesian Approach. AsiaCCS 2025.
Mingyuan Fan, Cen Chen*, Wenmeng Zhou, Yinggui Wang
2024
Transferability Bound Theory: Exploring Relationship between Adversarial Transferability and Flatness. NeurIPS 2024 (CCF-A).
Mingyuan Fan, Xiaodan Li, Cen Chen*, Wenmeng Zhou, Yaliang Li
Privacy Evaluation Benchmarks for NLP Models. EMNLP Findings 2024 (CCF-B).
Wei Huang, Yinggui Wang, Cen Chen
Predicting stock market trends with self-supervised learning. Neurocomputing 2024 (SCI).
Zelin Ying, Dawei Cheng, Cen Chen, Xiang Li, Peng Zhu, Yifeng Luo, Yuqi Liang
FedMCP: Parameter-Efficient Federated Learning with Model-Contrastive Personalization. ICPADS 2024.
Qianyi Zhao, Chen Qu, Cen Chen*, Mingyuan Fan, Yanhao Wang.
FedPAB: Federated Medical Image Segmentation with Personalized Attention and Boundary-oriented Learning, BIBM 2024 (CCF-B)
Xinyv Li, Cen Chen*, and Jamie Cui
LST2A: Lexical-Syntactic Targeted Adversarial Attack for Texts, CIKM 2024 (CCF-B).
Guanghao Zhou, Panjia Qiu, Mingyan Fan, Cen Chen*, Yaliang Li and Wenmeng Zhou
SGFL-Attack: A Similarity-Guidance Strategy for Hard-Label Textual Adversarial Attack Based on Feedback Learning, CIKM 2024 (CCF-B).
Panjia Qiu, Guanghao Zhou, Mingyuan Fan, Cen Chen*, Yaliang Li and Wenming Zhou
Exploiting Pre-Trained Models and Low-Frequency Preference for Cost-Effective Transfer-based Attack, TKDD 2024 (CCF-B, SCI I区).
Mingyuan Fan, Cen Chen*, Chengyu Wang, Jun Huang
PAI-Diffusion: Constructing and Serving a Family of Open Chinese Diffusion Models for Text-to-image Synthesis on the Cloud, ACL 2024 (CCF-A)
Chengyu Wang, Zhongjie Duan, Bingyan Liu, Xinyi Zou, Cen Chen, Kui Jia, Jun Huang
DiffSynth: Latent In-Iteration Deflickering for Realistic Video Synthesis, ECML PKDD(CCF-B).
Zhongjie Duan, Lizhou You, Chengyu Wang, Cen Chen*, Ziheng Wu, Weining Qian, Jun Huang
DPSW-Sketch: A Differentially Private Sketch Framework for Frequency Estimation over Sliding Windows, KDD 2024(CCF-A).
Yiping Wang, Yanhao Wang, Cen Chen
Approximate Kernel Density Estimation under Metric-based Local Differential Privacy, UAI 2024(CCF-B).
Yi Zhou, Yanhao Wang, Long Teng, Qiang Huang, Cen Chen
Diffutoon: High-Resolution Editable Toon Shading via Diffusion Models, IJCAI 2024(CCF-A).
Zhongjie Duan, Chengyu Wang, Cen Chen*, Weining Qian, Jun Huang
TaiChi: Improving the Robustness of NLP Models by Seeking Common Ground While Reserving Differences, COLING 2024 (CCF-B).
Huimin Chen, Chengyu Wang, Yanhao Wang, Cen Chen*, Yinggui Wang
BapFL: You can Backdoor Personalized Federated Learning, TKDD 2024 (CCF-B, SCI I区).
Tiandi Ye, Cen Chen*, Yinggui Wang, Xiang Li, Ming Gao
DualToken-ViT: Position-aware Efficient Vision Transformer with Dual Token Fusion, SDM 2024 (CCF-B).
Zhenzhen Chu, Jiayu Chen, Cen Chen*, Chengyu Wang, Ziheng Wu, Jun Huang, Weining Qian
UPFL: Unsupervised Personalized Federated Learning towards New Clients, SDM 2024 (CCF-B).
Tiandi Ye, Cen Chen*, Yinggui Wang, Xiang Li, Ming Gao
Guardian: Guarding against Gradient Leakage with Provable Defense for Federated Learning, WSDM 2024 (CCF-B).
Mingyuan Fan, Yang Liu, Cen Chen*, Chengyu Wang, Minghui Qiu, Wenmeng Zhou
Accelerating BERT inference with GPU-efficient exit prediction, Frontiers of Computer Science (SCI, CCF-B ).
Lei Li , Chengyu Wang , Minghui Qui , Cen Chen*, Ming Gao, and Aoying Zhou
2023
Federated Submodular Maximization with Differential Privacy, IEEE Internet of Things Journal (SCI I区).
Yanhao Wang, Tianchen Zhou, Cen Chen*, and Yinggui Wang
Learning Knowledge-Enhanced Contextual Language Representations for Domain Natural Language Understanding, EMNLP 2023 (CCF-B).
Taolin Zhang, Ruyao Xu, Chengyu Wang, Zhongjie Duan, Cen Chen*, Minghui Qiu, Dawei Cheng, Xiaofeng He, Weining Qian
DocAsRef: A Pilot Empirical Study on Repurposing Reference-based Summary Quality Metrics as Reference-free Metrics, Findings of EMNLP 2023 (CCF-B).
Forrest Sheng Bao, Ruixuan Tu, Ge Luo, Yinfei Yang, Hebi Li, Minghui Qiu, Youbiao He, and Cen Chen
Optimal Linear Subspace Search: Learning to Construct Fast and High-Quality Schedulers for Diffusion Models, CIKM 2023 (CCF-B).
Zhongjie Duan, Chengyu Wang, Cen Chen*, Jun Huang, and Weining Qian
Online Efficient Secure Logistic Regression based on Function Secret Sharing, CIKM 2023 (CCF-B).
Jing Liu, Jamie Cui, and Cen Chen*
Learning Invariant Representations for New Product Sales Forecasting via Multi-Granularity Adversarial Learning, CIKM 2023 (CCF-B).
Zhenzhen Chu, Chengyu Wang, Cen Chen*, Yuqi Liang, Dawei Cheng, and Weining Qian
On the Robustness of Split Learning against Adversarial Attacks, ECAI 2023 (CCF-B).
Mingyuan Fan, Cen Chen*, Chengyu Wang, Wenmeng Zhou, and Jun Huang
SLPerf: a Unified Framework for Benchmarking Split Learning, FL-IJCAI 2023.
Tianchen Zhou, Zhanyi Hu, Bingzhe Wu, and Cen Chen*
Rapid Diffusion: Building Domain-Specific Text-to-Image Synthesizers with Fast Inference Speed, ACL 2023 (CCF-A).
Bingyan Liu, Weifeng Lin, Zhongjie Duan, Chengyu Wang, Wu Ziheng, Zhang Zipeng, Kui Jia, Lianwen Jin, Cen Chen, and Jun Huang
Customized Text Sanitization Mechanism with Differential Privacy, Findings of ACL 2023 (CCF-A).
Huimin Chen, Fengran Mo, Yanhao Wang, Cen Chen*, Jian-Yun Nie, Chengyu Wang, and Jamie Cui
XtremeCLIP: Extremely Parameter-efficient Tuning for Low-resource Vision Language Understanding, Findings of ACL 2023 (CCF-A).
Moming Tang, Chengyu Wang, Jianing Wang, Cen Chen*, and Weining Qian
ParaSum: Contrastive Paraphrasing for Low-resource Extractive Text Summarization, KSME 2023.
Moming Tang, Chengyu Wang, Jianing Wang, Cen Chen*, Ming Gao, and Weining Qian
Resizing Codebook of Vector Quantization Without Retraining, Multimedia Systems (SCI ).
Lei Li, Tingting Liu, Chengyu Wang, Minghui Qiu, Cen Chen*, Ming Gao, and Aoying Zhou
Match4Match: Enhancing Text-Video Retrieval by Maximum Flow with Minimum Cost, WWW 2023 (CCF-A).
Zhongjie Duan, Chengyu Wang, Cen Chen*, Wenmeng Zhou, Jun Huang, and Weining Qian
Robust Clustered Federated Learning, DASFAA 2023 (CCF-B).
Tiandi Ye, Senhui Wei, Jamie Cui, Cen Chen*, Yingnan Fu, and Ming Gao
Communication Efficient Federated Learning via Channel-wise Dynamic Pruning, IEEE WCNC 2023.
Bo Tao, Cen Chen*, and Huimin Chen
2022
A Weakly Supervised Approach to Evaluating Single-Document Summarization via Negative Sampling, NAACL 2022(CCF-B).
Forrest Bao, Ge Luo, Hebi Li, Minghui Qiu, Yinfei Yang, Youbiao He, and Cen Chen
Optimal Action Space Search: An Effective Deep Reinforcement Learning Method for Algorithmic Trading, CIKM 2022 (CCF-B).
Zhongjie Duan, Cen Chen*, Dawei Cheng, Yuqi Liang, and Weining Qian,
Learning to Generalize in Heterogeneous Federated Networks, CIKM 2022 (CCF-B).
Cen Chen, Tiandi Ye, Li Wang, and Ming Gao
FedFAIM: A Model Performance-based Fair Incentive Mechanism for Federated Learning, Transactions on Big Data (SCI).
Zhuan Shi, Lan Zhang, Zhenyu Yao, Lingjuan Lyu, Cen Chen, Li Wang, Junhao Wang, and Xiang-Yang Li
Understanding Long Programming Languages with Structure-Aware Sparse Attention, SIGIR 2022 (CCF-A)
Tingting Liu, Chengyu Wang, Cen Chen*, Ming Gao, and Aoying Zhou
Combating False Sense of Security: Breaking the Defense of Adversarial Training via Non-Gradient Adversarial Attack, ICASSP 2022(CCF-B).
Mingyuan Fan, Yang Liu, Cen Chen, Shengxing Yu, Wenzhong Guo, and Ximeng Liu
TaskSum: Task-Driven Extractive Text Summarization for Long News Documents Based on Reinforcement Learning, DASFAA 2022 (CCF-B).
Moming Tang, Dawei Cheng, Cen Chen*, Yuqi Liang, Yifeng Luo, and Weining Qian
Multi-scale Time Based Stock Appreciation Ranking Prediction via Price Co-movement Discrimination, DASFAA 2022 (CCF-B).
Ruyao Xu, Dawei Cheng, Cen Chen*, Siqiang Luo, Yifeng Luo, and Weining Qian
Towards Evaluating the Reliability of Deep Neural Networks based IoT Devices, IEEE Internet of Things Journal (SCI I区).
Mingyuan Fan, Yang Liu, Cen Chen, Shengxing Yu, Wenzhong Guo, Li Wang, and Ximeng Liu
Backdoor Defense with Machine Unlearning, INFOCOM 2022 (CCF-A).
Yang Liu, Mingyuan Fan, Cen Chen, Ximeng Liu, Zhuo Ma, Li Wang, and Jianfeng Ma
Towards Scalable and Privacy-Preserving Deep Neural Network via Algorithmic-Cryptographic Co-design. ACM TIST 2022.
Jun Zhou, Longfei Zheng, Chaochao Chen, Yan Wang, Xiaolin Zheng, Bingzhe Wu, Cen Chen, Li Wang, and Jianwei Yin
2021
Learning to Expand: Reinforced Response Expansion for Information-seeking Conversations. CIKM 2021 (CCF-B).
Haojie Pan, Cen Chen* , Chengyu Wang, Minghui Qiu, Liu Yang, Feng Ji, and Jun Huang.
EasyTransfer -- A Simple and Scalable Deep Transfer Learning Platform for NLP Applications. CIKM 2021 (CCF-B).
Minghui Qiu , Peng Li , Chengyu Wang , Haojie Pan , Ang Wang , Cen Chen , Xianyan Jia , Yaliang Li , Jun Huang , Deng Cai , Wei Lin
Weakly-Supervised Open-Retrieval Conversational Question Answering, ECIR 2021.
Chen Qu, Liu Yang, Cen Chen, W. Bruce Croft, Kalpesh Krishna, Mohit Iyyer.
Cross-domain Knowledge Distillation for Retrieval-based Question Answering Systems, WWW 2021 (CCF-A) .
Cen Chen, Chengyu Wang, Minghui Qiu, Dehong Gao, Linbo Jin, and Wang Li.
Privacy-preserving Optimal Insulin Dosing Decision, ICASSP 2021 (CCF-B).
Zuobin Ying, Shuanglong Cao, Shengmin Xu, Ximeng Liu, Lingjuan Lyu, Cen Chen, Li Wang.
Reinforced History Backtracking for Conversational Question Answering, AAAI 2021 (CCF-A).
Minghui Qiu, Xinjing Huang, Cen Chen* , Feng Ji, Chen Qu, Wei Wei, Jun Huang, and Yin Zhang.
CAT-BERT: A Context-Aware Transferable BERT Model for Multi-Turn MRC, DASFAA 2021 (CCF-B).
Cen Chen , Xinjing Huang, Feng Ji, Chengyu Wang, Minghui Qiu, Jun Huang, and Yin Zhang.
2020
Nebula: A Scalable Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning System in Ant Financial (Demo), CIKM 2020 (CCF-B).
Cen Chen, Bingzhe Wu, Li Wang, Chaochao Chen, Jin Tan, Lei Wang, Jun Zhou, and Benyu Zhang.
aDMSCN: an Novel Perspective for User Intent Prediction in Customer Service Bots. CIKM 2020 (CCF-B).
Xu, Kuan, Chilin Fu, Xiaolu Zhang, Cen Chen, Ya-Lin Zhang, Wenge Rong, Zujie Wen, Jun Zhou, Xiaolong Li, and Yu Qiao.
Nebula: an Industrial-purpose Privacy-preserving Machine Learning System. S&P 2020 Poster (CCF-A).
Bingzhe Wu, Cen Chen, Li Wang, Lei Wang, Jin Tan, Chaochao Chen, Jun Zhou, and Guangyu Sun.
Open-Retrieval Conversational Question Answering. SIGIR 2020 (CCF-A).
Chen Qu, Liu Yang, Cen Chen, Minghui Qiu, W. Bruce Croft, and Mohit Iyyer.
AutoTransNet: Automatic Knowledge Fusion in Transferrable Networks for Semantic Text Matching(Poster). The Web Conference 2020 (WWW 2020, CCF-A), Taipei, China, April 20-24, 2020.
Cen Chen, Ya-Lin Zhang, Minghui Qiu, Bingzhe Wu, Li Wang, Longfei Li, and Jun Zhou.
IART: Intent-aware Response Ranking with Transformers in Information-seeking Conversation Systems. The Web Conference 2020 (WWW 2020, CCF-A), Taipei, China, April 20-24, 2020.
Liu Yang, Minghui Qiu, Chen Qu, Cen Chen, Jiafeng Guo, Yongfeng Zhang, W. Bruce Croft, and Haiqing Chen.
Characterizing Membership Privacy in Stochastic Gradient Langevin Dynamics, AAAI 2020 (CCF-A).
Bingzhe Wu, Chaochao Chen, Shiwan Zhao, Cen Chen, Yuan Yao, Guangyu Sun, Li Wang, Xiaolu Zhang, and Jun Zhou.
2019
InfDetect: a Large Scale Graph-based Fraud Detection System for E-Commerce Insurance, IEEE Big Data 2019.
Cen Chen, Chen Liang, Jianbin Lin, Li Wang, Ziqi Liu, Xinxing Yang, Jun Zhou, Yang Shuang, and Yuan Qi.
Cross-domain Attention Network with Wasserstein Regularizers for E-commerce Search, The 28th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2019, CCF-B).
Minghui Qiu, Bo Wang, Cen Chen*, Xiaoyi Zeng, Jun Huang, Deng Cai, Jingren Zhou, and Forrest Sheng Bao.
Attentive History Selection for Conversational Question Answering, The 28th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2019, CCF-B).
Chen Qu, Liu Yang, Minghui Qiu, Yongfeng Zhang, Cen Chen, W. Bruce Croft and Mohit Iyyer.
Multi-domain Attention Network with Wasserstein Regularizers for E-commerce Search, 28th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-19 workshop).
Minghui Qiu, Bo Wang, Cen Chen, Xiaoyi Zeng, Jun Huang, Deng Cai, Jingren Zhou, and Forrest Sheng Bao.
AntProphet: an Intention Mining System behind Alipay's Intelligent Customer Service Bot. 28th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-19 demo).
Cen Chen , Xiaolu Zhang, Sheng Ju, Chilin Fu, Caizhi Tang, Jun Zhou, and Xiaolong Li.
TitAnt: Online Real-time Transaction Fraud Detection in Ant Financial. 45th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB-19, CCF-A).
Shaosheng Cao, Xinxing Yang, Cen Chen, Jun Zhou, Xiaolong Li, Yuan Alan Qi.
Reinforcement Learning for User Intent Prediction in Customer Service Bots. The 42nd International ACM Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR-19, CCF-A), Paris, France, July.
Cen Chen, Chilin Fu, Xu Hu, Xiaolu Zhang, Jun Zhou, Xiaolong Li, and Forrest Sheng Bao.
Multi-Domain Gated CNN for Review Helpfulness Prediction. The The World Wide Web Conference (WWW-19, CCF-A), San Francisco, USA, May.
Cen Chen, Minghui Qiu, Yinfei Yang, Jun Zhou, Jun Huang, Xiaolong Li, and Forrest Sheng Bao.
2018
Cross-Domain Review Helpfulness Prediction Based on Convolutional Neural Networks with Auxiliary Domain Discriminators. The 16th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics(NAACL-18), USA, Jun.
Cen Chen, Yinfei Yang, Jun Zhou, Forrest Sheng Bao and Xiaolong Li.
A Local Online Learning Approach for Non-linear Data.The 22nd Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD -18), Australia.
XinXing Yang, Jun Zhou, Peilin Zhao, Cen Chen, Chaochao Chen.
2017
Scalable Urban Mobile Crowdsourcing: Handling Uncertainty in Worker Movement. ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST-17), 2017.
Shih-fen Cheng, Cen Chen*, Thivya Kandappu, Hoong Chuin Lau, Archan Misra, Nikita Jaiman, Randy Tandriansyah, Desmond Koh.
Tackling Large-scale Home Health Care Delivery Problem with Uncertainty. International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS-17, CCF-B), Pittsburgh, USA, June 2017.
Cen Chen, Zachary B. Rubinstein, Stephen F. Smith and Hoong Chuin Lau.
Cen Chen. Recommending Personalized Schedules in Urban Environments, International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS-17, CCF-B) Doctoral Consortium, Pittsburgh, USA, June 2017.
Locally Connected Deep Learning Framework for Industrial-scale Recommender Systems (Poster), 26th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW-17, CCF-A), Perth, April 2017.
Cen Chen, Peilin Zhao, Longfei Li, Jun Zhou, Xiaolong Li, and Minghui Qiu.
Achieving Near-optimal Solutions for Large-scale Home Health Care Scheduling Problem. The Thirty-First AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-17) Workshop on AI and OR for Social Good, San Francisco, February 2017.
Cen Chen, Zachary B. Rubinstein, Stephen F. Smith, Hoong Chuin Lau.
Aspect Extraction from Product Reviews Using Category Hierarchy Information(Short), European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL-17), Valencia, April 2017.
Yinfei Yang, Cen Chen, Minghui Qiu, and Forrest Bao.
2016
Aspect-Based Helpfulness Prediction for Online Product Reviews, 28th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI-16), San Jose, 2016.
Yinfei Yang, Cen Chen, and Forrest S. Bao.
An Experimental Investigation of Product Competition and Marketing in Social Networks, The 10th China Summer Workshop on Information Management (CSWIM-16), Dalian, China, 2016. (Best paper nomination)
Cen Chen, Zhiling Guo, Shih-fen Cheng, and Hoong Chuin Lau.
TASKer: Behavioral insights via campus-based experimental mobile crowd-sourcing, 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp-16, CCF-A), Heidelberg, Germany, 2016.
Thivya Kandappu, Nikita Jaiman, Randy Tandriansyah, Archan Misra, Shih-Fen Cheng, Cen Chen, Hoong Chuin Lau, Deepthi Chander, and Koustuv Dasgupta.
Campus-scale mobile crowd-tasking: Deployment and behavioral insights, Nineteenth ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW-16, CCF-A), San Francisco, CA, USA, February 2016. (Best paper nomination)
Thivya Kandappu, Archan Misra, Shih-Fen Cheng, Hoong Chuin Lau, Cen Chen, Nikita Jaiman, Randy Tandriansyah, Koustuv Dasgupta, and Deepthi Chander.
2015 & before
Towards city-scale mobile crowdsourcing: Task recommendations under trajectory uncertainties, Twenty-Fourth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-15, CCF-A), Beunos Aires, Argentina, July 2015.
Cen Chen, Shih-Fen Cheng, Hoong Chuin Lau, and Archan Misra.
Space-Time Aware Behavioral Topic Modeling for Microblog Posts, IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin, 2015.
Qiang Qu, Cen Chen, Christian S. Jensen, Anders Skovsgaard.
Multi-agent task assignment for mobile crowdsourcing under trajectory uncertainties(Extended Abstract), Fourteenth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS-15), Istanbul, Turkey, May 2015.
Cen Chen, Shih-Fen Cheng, Archan Misra, and Hoong Chuin Lau.
Multi-agent orienteering problem with time-dependent capacity constraints, Web Intelligence and Agent Systems (WIAS-14), 2014.
Cen Chen, Shih-Fen Cheng, and Hoong Chuin Lau.
TRACCS: A Framework for Trajectory-Aware Coordinated Urban Crowd-Sourcing, Second AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (HCOMP-14), Pittsburgh, USA, November 2014.
Cen Chen, Shih-Fen Cheng, Aldy Gunawan, Archan Misra, Koustuv Dasgupta, and Deepthi Chander.
The multi-agent orienteering problem (Extended Abstract), 10th Metaheuristics International Conference (MIC-13), Singapore, August 2013.
Cen Chen, Shih-Fen Cheng, and Hoong Chuin Lau.