I have received my Bachelor's, Master's, and Ph.D. degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science from Wuhan University of Technology, China, in 2010, 2012, and 2015, respectively. I am currently working as a Computational Scientist in the Department of Computer Science, Xavier University of Louisiana, New Orleans, United States.

My research interests include machine learning, image processing, data mining, online learning, convex/non-convex optimization, and deep learning. I have served as ad hoc reviewers for international journals including Technology in Cancer Research & Treatment (IF:2.074), Complexity (IF:2.462), Information Sciences (IF: 5.910), Neurocomputing (IF: 4.438), Cognitive Computation (IF: 4.287), IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (IF: 6.685), ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (IF: 3.290), Frontiers in Oncology (IF:4.848), and Briefings in Bioinformatics (IF: 8.990); and international conferences such as ICDM'16, SDM'17, ICDM'17, ICDM'18, AIKE'18, ICAIS’19, AAAI'19, CIKM'19, ICDM'19, AAAI'20, ICDM'20, and AAAI'21.

My co-authors include Kun Zhang, Zhide Fang, Wei Fan, Victor Sheng, Andrea Edwards, Hongwen Deng, Chindo Hicks, Yongsheng Gao, Qingquan Li, Shengwu Xiong, Zhixiang Fang, Xiangzhen Kong, Qin Zou, ...

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My short Curriculum Vitae is here. Address: 1 Drexel Dr, New Orleans, LA 70125, USA.

Contact: zchen at xula dot edu (or pursuerchen96 at gmail dot com or zchen96 at yahoo dot com). My PGP Key is here.