He is the Director of Lab for Scalable Data Intensive Systems at UTS. He holds a PhD in Information Technology from Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. Dr Chen's research interests include big data, data science, data intensive systems, scalability, cloud computing, software engineering and services, workflow management, privacy and security, and related various research topics. His research results have been published in more than 130 papers in international journals and conferences, including IEEE Transactions on Service Computing, ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems, ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, and IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC).