Dian Chen, Ph.D.

Division/Department
Kinsley School of Engineering, Sciences and Technology
Assistant Professor
- Computer Science, Ph.D.
Virginia Tech - Computer Science, M.S.
Northwestern University - Computer Science, B.S.
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
- Chen, D., Wan, Z., Ha, D. S., Shin, S., & Cho, J. H. (2026). Sustainable Smart Farm Networks: A Decision Theory-Guided Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach. ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems.
- Chen, D., Zhang, Q., Kaplan, L., Josang, A., Jeong, D., Chen, F., & Cho, J. H. (2025, November). fair-ldp: Uncertainty-guided fairness and privacy for federated healthcare learning. In 2025 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) (pp. 130-139). IEEE.
- Chen, D., Zhang, Q., Kaplan, L., Josang, A., Jeong, D., Chen, F., & Cho, J. H. (2025, June). Ethical AI for healthcare systems: uncertainty-aware, fair federated learning. In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Connected Health: Applications, Systems and Engineering Technologies (pp. 222-233).
- Chen, D., Yang, P., Ha, D. S., & Cho, J. H. (2024, December). SusFL: Federated learning-based monitoring for sustainable, attack-resistant smart farms. In 2024 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData) (pp. 199-208). IEEE.
- Chen, D., Zhang, Q., Chen, R., Ha, D. S., & Cho, J. H. (2024). Energy-adaptive and robust monitoring for smart farms based on solar-powered wireless sensors. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 11(18), 29781-29797.
- Artificial Intelligence
- Machine Learning
- Trustworthy AI
- AI-based Smart System
- Explainable AI
- ACM Capital Region Celebration of Women in Computing (CAPWIC) for paper ''Interpretable AI for Animal Behavior: Bayesian Networks with Uncertainty-Aware Decision Making'', Mar. 2026
- IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), Nov. 2025
- IEEE/ACM Conference on Connected Health: Applications, Systems and Engineering Technologies (CHASE), Jun. 2025.
- The 2025 Commonwealth Cyber Initiative (CCI) Symposium, Apr. 2025.
- IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData), Dec. 2024.
