Chen, Shu-Ching

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  • Dr. Shu-Ching Chen is a Professor in the Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences, Florida International University (FIU), Miami. He has been a Full Professor since August 2009 in SCIS at FIU. Prior to that, he was an Assistant/Associate Professor in SCIS at FIU from 1999. He is the Director of Distributed Multimedia Information Systems Laboratory (DMIS), Co-Director of the Integrated Computer Augmented Virtual Environment (I-CAVE), and Associate Director of Robotics and Digital Fabrication Lab (RDF). His main research interests include data science, multimedia big data, disaster information management, content-based image/video retrieval, and multimedia systems. Dr. Chen has authored and coauthored more than 360 research papers in journals, refereed conference/symposium/workshop proceedings, book chapters, and four books. Dr. Chen has been the PI/Co-PI of many research grants from NSF, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Department of Homeland Security (DHS), National Institute of Health (NIH), Department of Energy, Army Research Office, Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Florida Office of Insurance Regulation, Florida Department of Transportation, IBM, and Microsoft.

    Dr. Chen was named a 2011 recipient of the ACM Distinguished Scientist Award. He received the best paper awards from 2006 IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia and 2016 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration. He was awarded the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC) Society’s Outstanding Contribution Award in 2005 and was the co-recipient of the IEEE Most Active SMC Technical Committee Award in 2006. He was also awarded the Top Scholar Award from FIU in 2011 and 2012, Inaugural Excellence in Graduate Mentorship Award from FIU in 2006, the University Outstanding Faculty Research Award from FIU in 2004, the Excellence in Mentorship Award from SCIS in 2010, the Outstanding Faculty Service Award from SCIS in 2004, 2014 and 2019, the Outstanding Faculty Research Award from SCIS in 2002, 2012, and 2017, and Director’s Special Recognition Award from SCIS in 2016. He is a fellow of IEEE, AAAS, and SIRI.

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  • Data Science
    Multimedia Big Data
    Disaster Information Management
    Distributed Multimedia Database Systems

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  • Shu-Ching Chen

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