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Prof. Li CHEN (陳黎) Associate Head (Research) and Professor, Department of Computer Science Professor (Affiliate), Academy of Wellness and Human Development Hong Kong Baptist University, China

Education:

• PhD in Computer Science (Nominee for Best PhD Thesis Award), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
• Master in Computer Software and Theory, Peking University (北京大學), China
• Bachelor in Computer Science, Peking University (北京大學), China

Google scholar profile: h-index 52, i10-index 115, citations 11,488 (till June 2025)

Short bio:

Professor Chen’s recent research focus has mainly been on personalized conversational and explainable AI, with applications covering various domains including entertainment, digital media, education, e-commerce, and psychological well-being. She has authored and co-authored over 150 publications, most of which appear in high-impact journals (such as IJHCS, CSCW, TOCHI, TOIS, UMUAI, TIST, TIIS, KNOSYS, Behavior & Information Technology, AI Magazine, and IEEE Intelligent Systems), and key conferences in the areas of data mining (SIGKDD, WSDM, SDM), artificial intelligence (IJCAI, AAAI), information retrieval (SIGIR), recommender systems (RecSys), user modeling (UMAP), and intelligent user interfaces (CHI, IUI, Interact).

Her co-authored papers have received several awards, such as the RecSys’24 Best Student Paper Award, CHI’22 Honourable Mention Award, UMAP’20 Best Student Paper Award, UMUAI 2018 Best Paper Award, and UMAP’15 Best Student Paper Award. She received the President’s Award for Outstanding Performance in Teaching (Individual) 2024/25, the President’s Award for Outstanding Performance in Research Supervision 2022/23, and has been included in the list of the world’s top 2% most-cited scientists by Stanford University since 2021. She is now an ACM senior member, co-editor-in-chief of ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems (TORS), executive committee member of ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys), editorial board member of User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction Journal (UMUAI), and associate editor of ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS). She also served as the general co-chair of ACM RecSys’23, the program co-chair of ACM RecSys’20, and the program co-chair of ACM UMAP’18.