ProfLing Chen

Research Director

Australian Artifical Intelligence Institute

FUNDED RESEARCH

Machine Learning

 

Data Analytics


Outlier/Anomaly Detection

 

Reinforcement Learning

 

LLM Agents in Interactive Systems


Graph representation, hashing and embedding


Social media (text) mining

Recommendation and information retrieval

FUNDED RESEARCH

  • GRANT
    Large Language Model-based Client Agents for Psychotherapy Simulation
    Australian Research Council1 Oct 2026 - 30 Sep 2029
    People funded by this grant:
    • Chen L,
    • Student 1 S1,
    • STUDENT 2 S2,
    • Hussain F,
    • Wang MY
    ARC Linkage Projects - (LP240200698)
  • GRANT
    ARC Research Hub in Responsible AI for a Sustainable Grain Industry (gRAIn)
    Australian Research Council1 Aug 2026 - 31 Jul 2031
    People funded by this grant:
    ARC Industrial Transformation Research Hubs - (IH250100003)
  • SCHOLARSHIP
    Knowledge Extraction from Images: A Hybrid Approach for Vehicle Metadata Analysis
    NSW Police Force30 Mar 2026 - 30 Jun 2026
    People funded by this grant:
    • Chen L,
    • Li M
    NSW Police Force
  • SCHOLARSHIP
    Data-Driven Property Investment Intelligence: Developing Martin 2.0, Purcey, and Gino for Forecasting, Selection, and Portfolio Optimisation
    MILK BAR AI PTY LTD2 Mar 2026 - 1 Sep 2029
    People funded by this grant:
    • Student 1 S1,
    • Chen L
    MILK BAR AI PTY LTD
  • SCHOLARSHIP
    Adaptive Training Guidance through LLM-Powered Geospatial and Motion Analysis
    FOLLOW ME AI PTY LTD1 Oct 2025 - 30 Sep 2027
    People funded by this grant:
    • Zheng S,
    • Chen L
    FOLLOW ME AI PTY LTD
  • SCHOLARSHIP
    INT - 1420 Agentic AI-Powered Code Migration and Modernisation at Zurich Insurance Australia
    ZURICH AUSTRALIA LIMITED29 Sep 2025 - 20 Mar 2026
    People funded by this grant:
    • Chen L,
    • Li M
    Zurich Financial Services Australia Ltd - (INT - 1420)
  • GRANT
    Situated Anomaly Detection in an Open Environment
    Australian Research Council1 Jan 2025 - 31 Dec 2028
    People funded by this grant:
    • Chen L
    ARC Future Fellowships - (FT230100121)
  • GRANT
    Dynamic model assisted fault diagnostics of wind turbine gearbox
    Australian Research Council10 Sep 2024 - 9 Sep 2027
    People funded by this grant:
    • Ji J,
    • Zhao M,
    • Chen L,
    • Song C
    ARC Linkage Projects - (LP230100456)
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Anti Cheat System for chess
    TL ESPORTS PTY LTD5 Feb 2024 - 5 Oct 2024
    People funded by this grant:
    TL ESPORTS PTY LTD
  • GRANT
    Toward Human-Centred Safe Reinforcement Learning in the Real World
    Australian Research Council1 Jan 2024 - 30 Jun 2027
    People funded by this grant:
    • Chen L
    ARC Discovery Projects - (DP240102349)
  • GRANT
    A sentinel network for vibration-based termite control
    Australian Research Council1 Jul 2022 - 30 Jun 2027
    People funded by this grant:
    • Oberst S,
    • Lai J,
    • Chen L,
    • Canning J,
    • Brodzeli Z
    ARC Linkage Projects - (LP200301196)
  • SCHOLARSHIP
    Software Analysis of transactional Interoperability between Blockchain ledgers
    Digital Finance CRC Limited1 Jan 2022 - 25 Mar 2025
    People funded by this grant:
    • Chen L,
    • Xu P
    Digital Finance CRC
  • SCHOLARSHIP
    Graph Neural Networks for Analysing Network Performance and Geospatial Data from Mobility Intelligence
    TPG Telecom Limited31 Aug 2021 - 31 Aug 2024
    People funded by this grant:
    • Chen L,
    • Weng H,
    • Lu J
    TPG Telecom Limited
  • SCHOLARSHIP
    User behavioural analtyics for smart mobile network service optimisation
    TPG Telecom Limited1 Feb 2021 - 29 Mar 2021
    People funded by this grant:
    TPG Telecom Limited project terminated
  • SCHOLARSHIP
    Knowledge Lake using the Social Data Analytics
    TPG Telecom Limited1 Jan 2021 - 31 Dec 2023
    People funded by this grant:
    TPG Telecom Limited
  • GRANT
    Learning to Pinpoint Emerging Software Vulnerabilities
    Australian Research Council1 Jan 2021 - 31 Dec 2023
    People funded by this grant:
    • Chen L,
    • Sui Y
    ARC Discovery Projects - (DP210101348)
  • GRANT
    Targeted Graph Embedding for Anomaly Detection in Large-scale Networks
    Australian Research Council1 Jan 2021 - 31 Dec 2024
    People funded by this grant:
    ARC Discovery Projects - (DP210101347)
  • SCHOLARSHIP
    PHD Programme with Southern University of Science and Technology - Research on Complex Event Detection Based on Multiple Modalities and Skip-Gram Model - Student: Xin Zheng
    Southern University of Science and Technology1 Jul 2017 - 31 Jul 2021
    People funded by this grant:
    • Chen L
    Southern University of Science and Technology
  • GRANT
    Deep Learning Smart Systems for Educational Management
    Science and Industry Endowment Fund11 Mar 2017 - 21 Dec 2018
    People funded by this grant:
    • Yang Y,
    • Chen L,
    • Chen L,
    • Zheng L
    Science and Industry Endowment Fund - SIEF Research Projects - (CSIRO)
  • GRANT
    Deep Pattern Mining for National Health System's Response to Patient Demand
    Australian Research Council30 Sep 2015 - 21 Oct 2015
    People funded by this grant:
    ARC Linkage Projects - (LP140100569) deep pattern mining, pricing analysis, probabilistic graphical modeling
  • GRANT
    Flashlite: A High Performance Machine for Data Intensive Science ARC LIEF LE140100061 (RES13/967)
    Australian Research Council1 Jan 2014 - 31 Dec 2014
    People funded by this grant:
    ARC Linkage Infrastructure - (LE140100061) data intensive science, high performance computing
  • GRANT
    FlashLite: A High Performance Machine for Data Intensive Science, Lead UQ
    Australian Research Council1 Jan 2014 - 31 Dec 2014
  • GRANT
    Location-aware Frequent Pattern Mining from Uncertain Spatial Transaction Data
    Australian Research Council1 Jan 2014 - 30 Sep 2017
    People funded by this grant:
    ARC Discovery Projects - (DP140100545) Data Mining
  • GRANT
    Smart Text Understanding from Street View Images for Mobile Platforms
    University of Technology Sydney1 Jul 2012 - 31 Dec 2013
    People funded by this grant:
    FEIT Industry and Innovation Project Scheme
  • GRANT
    Early detection of hazardous social events through automatic social media data analysis
    University of Technology Sydney1 Jan 2012 - 31 Dec 2013
    People funded by this grant:
    UTS ECR Research Capabilities Development Initiative - (UTSECRG12)