Shengchao Chen

Shengchao Chen

Uni. of Technology Sydney

I am a Ph.D. student at Australian AI Intelligence Institute (AAII), University of Technology Sydney, working on Federated Intelligence. I have worked as a Deep Learning Research Intern at Shenzhen Institue of Meteorological Innovation（Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Weather Research Center for Monitoring Warning and Forecasting）. Previously, I completed an MPhil at the Hainan University and a BEng at Jiangxi University of Science and Technology. Now, my research focuses on bridging the gap between academic research and real-world applications. If you have any fun ideas or just want to have a chat, please feel free to drop me an email (shengchao.chen.uts AT gmail DOT com pavelchen@ieee.org).

99% of the research process is frustrating, but refreshing insights may still be gleaned from it.

Fun Fact: My research during my masters was in fiber-optic sensing and I was exposed to ML/DL during my intership, which is the main reason why I have a composite background.

💬 Research Intersts

I primarily focus on building trustworthy AI models in the ever-changing real world to address potentially complex modeling scenarios.

  • Federated Learning: FL for X (e.g., Time Series, Computer Vision, Science, etc.)
  • Computer Vision: Mainly for remote sensing (IEEE TGRS’22,23, KBS’23,24) / Medical imaging (IEEE JBHI’24, MBEC’24, arXiv‘24)
  • Time Series: Time Series Forecasting (IJCAI’23,24, NeurIPS’24, arXiv’23,24)

🔥 News

  • 2024.09: I have one paper about LLMs on Weather Modeling accpted by NeurIPS 2024 with an average rating of 7.
  • 2024.06: I have one paper about Federated Foundaion Model on Weather accpted by AI4CI Workshop @ IJCAI 24 (Highlight).
  • 2024.05: I am honour to be invited to attend and present at the AI4CI Workshop @ IJCAI 24, expect to get more insights.
  • 2024.05: I have one paper about Retinal Disease Recognition accpted by Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing (I mentor). Congratulations to my collaborators!
  • 2024.04: I have one paper about On-device Weather Foundation Model accpted by IJCAI’24，see you on Jeju!
  • 2024.03: I have one paper about Federated Remote Sensing Analysis accepted by Knowledge-Based Systems (Top in Knowledge System, JCR Q1), which is my fourth work during my intership.
  • 2024.02: I have two papers about *Machine Leaning for Fiber-optics Demodulation accpted by Optical Fiber Technology (I mentor). Congratulations to my collaborators!
  • 2023.12: Our survey: Foundation Models for Weather and Climate Data Understanding: A Comprehensive Survey, has appeared on arXiv, which is the first comprehensive and systematic effort to summarize DL-based understanding of weather and climate data, paving the way for the development of foundation models of weather and climate.
  • 2023.08: I have one paper about Weather Image Analysis accepted by Knowledge-Based Systems (Top in Knowledge System, JCR Q1), which is my third work during my intership.
  • 2023.07: I have one paper about Radar Echo Spatio-temporal Predition accepted by IEEE Transaction on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (Top in RS, JCR Q1), which is my second work during my intership.
  • 2023.06: I received my master’s degree from Hainan University with distinguished honors.
  • 2023.04: I have one paper about Federated Prompt for Weather Foundation Model accpted by IJCAI’23.
  • 2023.03: I have three papers about Fiber-optics Demodulation accpted by IEEE Sensors Journal (I mentor). Congratulations to my collaborators!
  • 2023.03: I have one paper about Federated Photonic Reverse Design accpted by IEEE Photonic Letter.
  • 2023.02: I have one paper about Medical Image Analysis accpted by IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (Top in Medical Information).
  • 2022.10: I was honored to be awarded the National Scholarship with the first place overall in Hainan University.
  • 2022.07: I have one paper about Machine Learning-based Photonic Reverse Design accepted by IEEE Photonic Letter.
  • 2022.06: I have one paper about Generative Adversial Network on Radar Iamges accepted by IEEE Transaction on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (Top in Remote Sensing, JCR Q1), which is my first work during my intership.
  • 2022.05: I have one paper about Machine Learning on Fiber-optic Measuring’2 accepted by Optics Express (Top in Optical, JCR Q1).
  • 2022.02: I have one paper about Machine Learning on Fiber-optic Measuring‘1 accpted by Optics Express (Top in Optical, JCR Q1).

📝 Publications

Survey:

Federated Intelligence:

Computer Vision

AI for Science

🎖 Honors and Awards

  • 2023.06 Outstanding Master’s Thesis (1st place), Hainan University, China.
  • 2023.03 Full Scholarship for Ph.D. Student, University of Technology Sydney, Australia.
  • 2023.05 Outstanding Graduates, Hainan University, China.
  • 2022.10 National Scholarship (Top 0.1%, 1/1218), Ministrt of Education, China.
  • 2022.09 Outstanding Graduate Student, Hainan University, China.

📖 Educations

  • 2023.07 - present, Computer Science, University of Technology Sydney, Australia.
  • 2020.09 - 2023.06, Information and Communication Engineering, Hainan University, China. (Outstanding Graduates, 1st)
  • 2016.09 - 2020.06, Communication Engineering, Jiangxi University of Science and Technology, China.

💻 Internships

🧱 Services

Reviewer / Program Committee Member:

Journal

  • IEEE Transactions on Neural Network and Learning Systems
  • IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
  • IEEE Sensors Journal
  • IEEE Information System
  • Knowledge-Based Systems
  • Artificial Intelligence In Medicine
  • Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging & Visualization

Conferece

  • NeurIPS (2023, 2024)
  • ICLR (2024, 2025)
  • ICML (2024)
  • IJCAI (2023, 2024)
  • CVPR (2023, 2024)
  • ECCV (2023, 2024)
  • ICASSP (2025)
  • AISTATS (2025)
  • FL@IJCAI (2023)
  • FL@WWW (2024)

Membership:

  • Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, IEEE (Student Mebmber’21 -> Member’23) (I am no longer a member because I am not renewing my membership.)
  • Optical Society of America, OSA (Member’21) (I am no longer a member because I am not renewing my membership.)