His research interests include graph machine learning and collective intelligence. Dr. Chen’s work on sampling theory of graph data received the 2018 IEEE Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award. His co-authored paper on structural health monitoring received ASME SHM/NDE 2020 Best Journal Paper Runner-Up Award and another paper on 3D point cloud processing received the Best Student Paper Award at 2018 IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing. His technique on joint perception and prediction was applied on all the UBER’s autonomous cars. Dr. Chen also contributed to the project of scene-aware interaction, winning MERL President’s Award. He also serves as the associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks.