Short Biography Professor Yi-Ping Phoebe Chen
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Professor Phoebe Chen is
Professor and Chair at the
Department of Computer Science and
Computer Engineering,
School of Engineering
and Mathematical Sciences,
Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering,
La Trobe University, Melbourne Australia. She was Head of Department from
Sep 2010 to April 2012.
Professor Phoebe Chen hosts the ARC Centre of
Excellence in Bioinformatics from 2008 - present and ARC Centre in Bioinformatics from
2003 to 2007.
Phoebe
finished her Bachelor of Information Technology degree in School of
Information Technology and Electrical Engineering of the
University of Queensland (UQ), in
Brisbane, Australia. After that she finished Honours (First Class) in
Information Technology in UQ. Phoebe received her Ph.D. degree in the area
of Computer Science (Bioinformatics) in University of Queensland. Phoebe
also finished Graduate Certificate in Higher Education from
Queensland University of Technology (QUT). Phoebe has been awarded 30
research
grants around 8 millions (include
13 prestigious Australia Research Council (ARC) Grants) so far. Recently, Phoebe just received one ARC
Discovery project from 2013 -2015. Phoebe received one
ARC Centre of
Excellence
in Bioinformatics as project leader and chief
investigator from 2008-2010; 2003-2007, ARC Discovery
- Exploiting Database Technologies for the Visualization and Analysis of
Measured and Simulated Plant Structures in Bioinformatics as a sole Chief
Investigator (CI) and one ARC
Linkage-International - Development of Knowledge Discovery for High
Dimensional Biomedical Data 2004 round
and from 2005-2007. Phoebe is also the Principal Chief
Investigator (CI) and Project Leader for an ARC large Discovery Grant
(Previous ARC Large) on Integrating Database Technologies and Visual
Analysis in Bioinformatics for Genome Data. Phoebe is also CI and QUT
Manager of an ARC Large Linkage-Infrastructure grant on Computational
infrastructure for high-throughput genome bioinformatics. She is a sole CI
of ARC Linkage Project Grant on Design and Development of a Web-based
Intelligent Multimedia Mining System. She is also a CI of successful ARC
Centre in Bioinformatics. Prof. Chen is also three ARC Network Seeding
Grants CIs. Most of them are in Bioinformatics and Multimedia field. Her
research interests include bioinformatics, multimedia technologies, and
Information Systems. She presented her research results at various
international and national conferences, and has published more than
200
refereed
publications
since 1999. They appear in high standing publications, such as Nucleic Acids Research, BMC
Genomics,
BMC Bioinformatics, Current Drug Metabolism,
Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, IEEE
Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering,
Information Systems, IEEE Multimedia,
ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications
etc. Phoebe is an editor for several journal issues and proceedings,
such as IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Current Bioinformatics,
BMC Genomics
(2012-2015),
BMC Bioinformatics
(2009-2011, 2013-2015),
BMC Systems Biology
(2013-2015),
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
(2013-2015),
Asia-Pacific Bioinformatics Conference
(since 2003),
International Multimedia Modelling Conference
(since 2003). She is the
author of the book Bioinformatics Technologies (Springer) that was published in Jan 2005. She also participates in various professional
activities for the above research areas. Phoebe is ACM SIG MM Vice Chair
from 2021-2023. She is a founder of
the
Asia-Pacific Bioinformatics Conference (and
the Chair of the steering
committee). She is
also a steering committee Chair for
International Multimedia Modelling
Conference (MMM).
Phoebe is the area Chair
in the ACM
Multimedia conference 2015 (ACM
MM2015), the program Chair of
the Ninth Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Conference (APBC2011),
and conference co-chair of the
Third International Workshop on Conceptual
Modelling for Life Sciences Applications (CMLSA
2010), and the
16th International Conference on Multimedia Modelling (MMM2010).
She is the guest editor for a number of journals, including BMC Genomics
(2012-2015), BMC Bioinformatics, (2009-2011, 2013-2015), BMC Systems Biology
(2013-2015), IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and
Bioinformatics (2013-2015), Computational Biology and Chemistry (2013-2015),
BBA - Proteins and Proteomics (2013), etc. She is also the editorial board
member of IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (T-MM), Current Bioinformatics,
International Journal of Intelligent Computing in Medical Sciences and Image
Processing, Journal of Research and Practice in Information Technology (JRPIT),
etc. She is also a program committee member for many international/national
conferences, such as PAKDD2015, DEXA2015, PAKDD2014, RECOMB2014, SDM2014,
DEXA2014, PAKDD2013, APBC2013, RECOMB2013, ISMB2012, ICDM2011. Phoebe is a regular reviewer
for a number of international journals and conferences, including Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids
Research, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Information Sciences, Journal of Internet Technology, IEEE
Transactions on Multimedia, Multimedia Tools and Applications, Asia-Pacific BioTech
News, Journal of Visualization Language and Computing, ISMB, PAKDD, etc. Before Phoebe joined
La Trobe University, Phoebe was an Associate Professor (Reader) at the School of Information
Technology,
Faculty of Science and Technology,
Deakin University
Melbourne Campus Australia from Dec 2003
to April 2010. Phoebe was the Group Leader of
Bioinformatics Research
and Multimedia Information Retrieval group leader.
Phoebe was the
Director of Research (Associate Head of Research)
of School of Information Technology Deakin University from 2004-2005 and was head of Multimedia Stream
from 2004 to 2006. Phoebe
has been a Associate Lecturer, Lecturer and Senior Lecturer at the School of
Information Systems, Faculty of Information Technology at
Queensland
University of Technology
from Jul 1999 to Nov 2003. In this position, she has
been a unit coordinator and lecturer in Interactivity Design, Multimedia
Systems, and Advanced Multimedia Technologies. Dr. Chen
was a Postgraduate
Project Coordinator including honours and master. She was involved in the
Cooperative Information Systems Research Centre in the Faculty of
Information Technology as an operation manager, researcher/investigator and
as its web administrator/master. She has been an active researcher in the
Centre for Information Technology Innovation. She has supervised PhD, Master
by Research, Honours and other projects students. She was also a web
administrator/master for the School of Information Systems.
She has
established Advanced Bioinformatics Research Lab in QUT.
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