Prof Yi-Ping Phoebe Chen
Department of Computer Science and Information Technology, La Trobe University, Melbourne Australia

Professor Yi-Ping Phoebe Chen is Professor and Chair at the Department of Computer Science and Information Technology, La Trobe University, Melbourne Australia. She was Head of Department of Department of Computer Science and Computer Engineering, La Trobe University from Sep 2010 to April 2012. Prof Chen is the Chief Investigator of ARC Centre of Excellence in Bioinformatics. Phoebe received her BInfTech degree with First Class Honours and PhD in Computer Science (Bioinformatics) from the University of Queensland. Professor Chen has been doing multi-discipline researches for more than 18 years. Her research focus is to find effective solutions for visualizing, integrating, analyzing and mining big data, complex structures and functions for scientific and biomedical applications. She has been working in many emerging areas such as bioinformatics, multimedia, scientific visualization, pattern recognition, health informatics, data mining, deep learning and databases. She has published over 220 research papers, many of them appeared in top journals and conferences such as IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Pattern Recognition, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, Molecular Systems Biology, Aging Cell, Nucleic Acids Research, Journal of Medical Genetics, RNA, BMC Genomics, BMC Bioinformatics, Current Drug Metabolism, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Information Systems, SIGMOD, etc . She is steering committee chair of Asia-Pacific Bioinformatics Conference (founder) and International conference on Multimedia Modelling. She has been on the program committees of over 100 international conferences, including top ranking conferences such as ICDE, ICPR, ISMB, CIKM etc.