Dr. Shu-Ching Chen is the inaugural Executive Director of Data Science and Analytics Innovation Center (dSAIC). dSAIC is a University of Missouri System-wide Center based at the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC). He provides the expertise and leadership to ensure the Center's overarching aspiration to become Missouri's hub for innovative research and expertise in data science, analytics, data protection (cybersecurity), artificial intelligence, and machine learning solving critical societal problems, being a state-of-the-art resource for industry and the UM universities, producing a skilled workforce to meet growing industry demands and spurring economic development becomes a reality. He received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 1998, and Master's degrees in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Civil Engineering in 1992, 1995, and 1996, respectively, all from Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA. His main research interests include data science, multimedia big data, disaster information management, content-based image/video retrieval, and multimedia systems. Dr. Chen has authored and co-authored more than 390 research papers in journals, refereed conference/symposium/workshop proceedings, book chapters, and four books.
Dr. Chen was named a 2011 recipient of the ACM Distinguished Scientist. He received the best paper awards from 2006 IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia and 2016 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration. He also received the best student paper award from 2022 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval. He received the 2019 Service Award from IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Multimedia Computing. He was awarded the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC) Society's Outstanding Contribution Award in 2005 and was the co-recipient of the IEEE Most Active SMC Technical Committee Award in 2006. He is a fellow of IEEE, AAAS, AIMBE, AAIA, and SIRI.
He has been a General Chair and Program Chair for more than 60 conferences, symposiums, and workshops. He serves/served founding Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Multimedia Data Engineering and Management, the past Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Multimedia Magazine, the steering committee member of the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, the steering committee member and past chair of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Multimedia Computing, and the Co-Chair of IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society's Technical Committee on Knowledge Acquisition in Intelligent Systems. He also serves/served as a member of technical program committee for more than 400 professional meetings.