Overview
Background
Rocky Tong Chen is currently a Senior Lecturer and ARC DECRA Fellow with the Data Science Discipline, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, The University of Queensland. His research has been focused on developing accurate, efficient, and trustworthy data mining solutions to discover actionable patterns and intelligence from large-scale user data to facilitate prediction and recommendation in a wide range of domains. To date, he has published 70+ peer-reviewed papers in the most prestigious conferences (e.g., KDD, SIGIR, WWW, ICDM, ICDE, AAAI and IJCAI) and journals (e.g., VLDBJ, IEEE TKDE, IEEE TNNLS, ACM TOIS and WWWJ). His publications have won 3 Best Paper Awards, 1 Best Paper Nomination, and 2 Travel Awards.
Availability
- Dr Rocky Chen is:
- Available for supervision
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Software Engineering, Northwest A&F University (西北农林科技大学)
- Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Queensland
Research interests
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Data Mining
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Recommender Systems
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Predictive Analytics
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Machine Learning
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Health Informatics
Works
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2018
Conference Publication
Call attention to rumors: deep attention based recurrent neural networks for early rumor detection
Chen, Tong, Li, Xue, Yin, Hongzhi and Zhang, Jun (2018). Call attention to rumors: deep attention based recurrent neural networks for early rumor detection. 22nd Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD 2018, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 3 June 2018. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-04503-6_4
2017
Conference Publication
Generating life course trajectory sequences with recurrent neural networks and application to early detection of social disadvantage
Wu, Lin, Haynes, Michele, Smith, Andrew, Chen, Tong and Li, Xue (2017). Generating life course trajectory sequences with recurrent neural networks and application to early detection of social disadvantage. Advanced Data Mining and Applications 13th International Conference, Singapore, November 5–6, 2017. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer . doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-69179-4_16
2017
Conference Publication
People opinion topic model: opinion based user clustering in social networks
Chen, Hongxu, Yin, Hongzhi, Li, Xue, Wang, Meng, Chen, Weitong and Chen, Tong (2017). People opinion topic model: opinion based user clustering in social networks. International Conference on World Wide Web Companion, Perth, Australia, 3-7 April 2017. Geneva, Switzerland: International World Wide Web Conferences Steering Committee. doi: 10.1145/3041021.3051159
Funding
Current funding
Supervision
Availability
- Dr Rocky Chen is:
- Available for supervision
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Supervision history
Current supervision
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Doctor Philosophy
Value Measurement of Data Products
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Shazia Sadiq
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Doctor Philosophy
Causal Analysis for Decision Support in Public Health
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Shazia Sadiq, Professor Hongzhi Yin
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Doctor Philosophy
Lightweight Graph Neural Networks for Recommendation
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Hongzhi Yin
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Doctor Philosophy
Scalable and Lightweight On-Device Recommender Systems
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Hongzhi Yin
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Doctor Philosophy
Scalable and Generalizable Graph Neural Networks
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Hongzhi Yin
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Doctor Philosophy
Data as a Service Architecture
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Shazia Sadiq
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Doctor Philosophy
Sustainable On-Device Recommender Systems
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Hongzhi Yin
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Doctor Philosophy
Scalable and Lightweight On-Device Recommender Systems
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Hongzhi Yin, Dr Junliang Yu
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Doctor Philosophy
Decentralised Collaborative Predictive Analytics on Personal Smart Devices
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Hongzhi Yin
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Doctor Philosophy
Decentralised Collaborative Predictive Analytics on Personal Smart Devices
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Hongzhi Yin
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Doctor Philosophy
Lightweight Embedding Learning for Recommender Systems
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Hongzhi Yin
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Doctor Philosophy
Establishment LCA method coupled with an activated sludge model for sustainable nitrogen management technology evaluation.
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Liu Ye, Dr Shakil Ahmmed
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Doctor Philosophy
Improving Traffic Dynamics Simulation Quality for Enhanced Safety and Efficiency: Evaluation, Modelling, and Application
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Zuduo Zheng
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Doctor Philosophy
LLM-enhanced Recommender System
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Hongzhi Yin
Completed supervision
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2025
Doctor Philosophy
Graph Condensation for Real-World Graph Representation at Scale
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Hongzhi Yin
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2025
Doctor Philosophy
Decentralized Learning for On-device Recommendation
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Hongzhi Yin
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2025
Doctor Philosophy
Decentralized Point-Of-Interest (POI) Recommender Systems
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Hongzhi Yin
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2022
Doctor Philosophy
Neural Attentive Recommender Systems
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Hongzhi Yin, Professor Helen Huang
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