Jia Chen
Associate Professor of Teaching
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Bourns Hall A, Room 149
Electrical & Computer Engineering Department
University of California, Riverside
900 University Ave Riverside, CA 92521 USA
Associate Professor of Teaching
Email:
Address:
Bourns Hall A, Room 149
Electrical & Computer Engineering Department
University of California, Riverside
900 University Ave Riverside, CA 92521 USA
University of California, Riverside
Associate Professor of Teaching July 2025 – Present
Assistant Professor of Teaching July 2021 – June 2025
University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Sep. 2019 – June 2021
Assistant Professor
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Jan. 2017 – Aug. 2019
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Supervisor: Dr. Georgios B. Giannakis
University of Texas at Arlington May 2016 – Dec. 2016
Research Associate
Supervisor: Dr. Ioannis D. Schizas
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Electrical Engineering Jan. 2013 – May 2016
University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, USA
Master of Science (M.S.) in Electrical Engineering Sep. 2009 – Jun. 2012
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Electrical Engineering Sep. 2005 – Jun. 2009
Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China
August 2025: One paper is accepted by EMNLP, Findings.
August 2025: One paper is accepted by IEEE Signal Processing Magazine.
July 2025: Co-organized a week-long "Data Science High School Summer Camp" for the local high schoolers.
February 2025: Our paper TRAWL: Tensor Reduced and Approximated Weights for Large Language Models has been accepted by 2025 PAKDD Special Sessions: Data Science: Foundations and Applications (DSFA)!
January 2025: Our 2025 NSF REU program on Data Science will accept applications from January 6, 2025 till February 20, 2025 through ETAP platform. Application Link: https://etap.nsf.gov/award/759/opportunity/10371. Please find more details about this program at https://sites.google.com/ucr.edu/ucr-ds-reu.
October 2024: Presented our paper "Project or Factorize? A case study of Multiview CCA and PARAFAC2 tensor factorization" at 2024 Asilomar!
October 2024: Our paper "Automating Data Science Pipelines with Tensor Completion" led by our NSF REU students has been accepted to 2024 IEEE Big Data!
September 2024: Our paper "Adversarial Attacks on Parts of Speech: An Empirical Study in Text-to-Image Generation" has been accepted to 2024 EMNLP Findings!
August 2024: Our project "The Computing Scholars Experience Lab Program" is funded by NSF (my role: senior personnel)!
August 2024: Our project "Trustworthy AI for Transportation Cyber-Physical Systems" led by UTRGV in collaboration with UPenn is funded by NSF!
July 2024: Co-organized a week-long "Data Science High School Summer Camp" for the local high schoolers.
June 2024: Welcome the REU students Teresa Garza, Mario Camarena, and Oziel Sauceda from UTRGV to join us for the 10-week Summer Internship!
May 2024: Our paper "Cross-Task Defense: Instruction-Tuning LLMs for Content Safety" has been accepted to NAACL TrustNLP 2024 workshop.
March 2024: Our IEEE Inland Empire Data Science Workshop has been featured by the IEEE Computer Society
News article: https://www.computer.org/publications/tech-news/insider-membership-news/ie-data-science-workshop
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January 2024: Two papers are accepted by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) 2024 Joint Rail Conference (JRC2024) Proceedings.
December 2023: Our 2024 NSF REU program on Data Science will accept applications from December 26, 2023 till February 15, 2024 through ETAP platform. Application Link: https://etap.nsf.gov/award/759/opportunity/6867. Please find more details about this program at https://sites.google.com/ucr.edu/ucr-ds-reu.
November 2023: Our two-day event IEEE Inland Empire Data Science Workshop attracted 76 student participants from Cal. State U. San Bernardino, Cal. Poly. Pomona, Riverside City College, Cal. State U. San Marcos, Crafton Hills College, Cal. State U. Fullerton, Pasadena City College, San Bernardino Valley College, and UCR!
November 2023: Two paper abstracts "Spectral Clustering in Railway Crossing Accidents Analysis" and "Kernel Ridge Regression in Predicting Railway Crossing Accidents" have been accepted by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) 2024 Joint Rail Conference (JRC2024).
November 2023: Our paper "Can SAM recognize crops? Quantifying the zero-shot performance of a semantic segmentation foundation model on generating crop-maps using satellite imagery for precision agriculture" has accepted by NeurIPS 2023 AI4Science Workshop!
August 2023: Our 8-week NSF REU summer program concluded with 11 student research project presentations!!
May 2023: Welcome the REU students Pablo Santos, Ethan Villalobos, Hector Lugo, and Damian Gomez from UTRGV to join us for the 10-week Summer Internship!
May 2023: Our project "Greater LA Data Science Pathways (GLADS-PATH)" partnering with CSU San Bernardino, Cal Poly Pomona, Riverside CCD, Riverside City College, Moreno Valley College, Norco College, Chaffey College, and Pasadena City College is funded by The California Education Learning Lab!
March 2023: Our undergraduate researcher Het Patel got admitted to the Phd program in CS at UCR. Congratulations to Het!
February 2023: Our project "The US DOT University Transportation Center for Railway Safety, Smart Technologies for Safer Railways" led by University of Texas Rio Grande Valley in collaboration with University of Nebraska Lincoln, University of South Carolina, Texas A&M University, and South Texas College is funded by the Department of Transportation!
January 2023: Our REU Site: Experience the Full Data Science Pipeline through Research and Practice, is funded by NSF!
November 2022: Organized a Data Science and Machine Learning Workshop for Google exploreCSR program!
October 2022: Gave a seminar talk on "Tensor decomposition for graph mining" in Statistics Department at UCR!
October 2022: Our paper SV-Learn: Learning Matrix Singular Values with Neural Networks has been accepted by ICDM OEDM Workshop!
September 2022: Our undergraduate researcher Het Patel has been awarded with Digital Agriculture Fellowship! Congratulations!
September 2022: Our paper TENALIGN: Joint Tensor Alignment and Coupled Factorization has been accepted by ICDM!
August 2022: Gave a seminar talk on "Multiview learning for knowledge discovery" in CS at Texas Tech University!
August 2022: Our paper Unsupervised Multiview Embedding of Node Embeddings has been accepted by Asilomar!
July 2022: Gave a talk on "Machine Learning Applications" in Redlands Unified School District High-school AI summer camp!
July 2022: We have been awarded a Regents Faculty Fellowship [RFF] grant by the Committee on Research of the Riverside Division of the Academic Senate!
June 2022: Our paper titled Graph-Assisted Tensor Disaggregation has been accepted by KDD MLG Workshop!
June 2022: Welcome the REU students Alan Urteaga and Leonel Ramirez from UTRGV to join us for the Summer Internship!
June 2022: Our undergraduate researchers Steven Ryan Leonido, Paul Minh Ullman, Brandon Chea, Boyi Li, and Shaoyu Tu are accepted in the Data Science Challenge program co-hosted by UCR and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)! Congratulations to all of you!
May 2022: Gave a mini-lecture "Machine Learning in Everyday Life" on the BCOE Family weekend!
May 2022: Congratulations to our undergraduate researcher Haruki Miyazaki on his Data Science-Path Summer Fellowship!
May 2022: Our paper "Multimodal Correlations-Based Data Clustering" has been accepted by the AIMS, Foundations of Data Science!
April 2022: Congratulations to our undergraduate researchers Shaoyu (Kevin) Tu and Het Patel on their SIAM SDM Travel awards!