Min Chen

Dr. Min Chen is a Professor in Computing and Software Systems at the University of Washington Bothell (UWB). Prior to joining UWB, she was an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Montana. She earned her BS in Electrical Engineering from Zhejiang University, China, and her MS and PhD in Computer Science from Florida International University, USA. Her research focuses on multimedia big data analytics, multimedia data mining, and machine learning, with interdisciplinary applications. She has published over 90 papers in leading journals and peer-reviewed conferences and has received multiple honors, including the 2022 UWB Distinguished Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity Award (the highest award available for UWB faculty), the Best Paper Award at the 15th IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration, the Best Demo Award at the 2021 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval, and the 2015 IGI Global Annual Excellence in Research Journal Award.

Dr. Chen currently serves as the Chair of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Community on Multimedia Computing (TCMC), a Member-at-Large on the IEEE Computer Society Technical Activities Committee (TAC), and an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM) and the International Journal of Multimedia Data Engineering and Management (IJMDEM). She has served as Technical Program Co-Chair for 12 international conferences (3 ongoing, 9 completed), including 8 IEEE-sponsored events; as a Steering Committee member for 2 IEEE conferences; and as a key organizer for 12 additional conferences, 9 of which were IEEE-sponsored. She has received five service awards from IEEE conferences, including the 2024 IEEE MIPR Service Award and the 2023 IEEE IRI Outstanding Service Award.