Chen Chen

Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of Virginia

Office: Rice Hall, Room 308
85 Engineers Way, Charlottesville, VA 22904
Mail: PO Box 400740, Charlottesville VA 22904
Email: zrh6du at virginia dot edu

Short Bio

I am an Assistant Professor at University of Virginia, Department of Computer Science. Before that, I was a Research Assistant Professor at Biocomplexity Institute, and a software engineer at Google. I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science at Arizona State University under the supervision of Professor Hanghang Tong in 2019, my M.Sc degree from New York University in 2013 and B.Eng degree from Beihang University in 2011, both majored in Computer Science.

To prospective students: I am looking for self-motivated students to join my research group starting at 2025 Fall. If you are interested in working with me, please send me an email with your CV along with a brief introduction of yourself. Please kindly start your email’s subject line with “PhD_application_<YourName>”.

Research Interests

Graph Machine Learning
Computational Epidemiology
Network Science

Honors and Awards

2021: WSDM Outstanding Reviewer
2019: EECS Rising Star
2018: KDD Student Travel Award
2017: SBP-BRiMS Doctor Consortium Student Travel Award
2016: Bests of KDD 2016
2016: KDD Student Travel Award
2015: ICDM Student Travel Award
2015: Bests of SDM 2015
2015: SDM Student Travel Award