Chao Chen

Dr. Chao Chen

Senior Lecturer, Business Analytics & Ai

Details

Open to

  • Masters Research or PhD student supervision

About

Dr Chao Chen is currently a Senior Lecturer in AI and Data Analytics at RMIT University. He received his PhD degree in Information Technology from Deakin University in 2017. From 2016 to 2018, he worked as a Data Scientist at Telstra to create customer value from huge and heterogeneous data sources using advanced analytics and big data techniques. He then worked as a Research Fellow and a Senior Lecturer at Swinburne University of Technology and James Cook University, respectively. He is conducting interdisciplinary research between cybersecurity and artificial intelligence (AI), such as AI for cybersecurity and security issues in AI systems. He has published more than 60 research papers in high quality journals and CORE rank A*/A conferences, such as IJCAI, RAID, ESORICS, etc. One of his papers was the featured article of that issue (IT Professional Mar.-Apr. 2016). His work has been cited more than 2000 times with h-index 23 from Google Scholar. He has secured more than $3M research funding to support his research.

 

Supervisor projects

  • AI driven Risk Management and Monitoring System for Aged Care: Mitigating Biases in Decision Making
  • 1 Dec 2025
  • Exploring the Impact of Digital Transformation on the Overseas Accounting Performance of Chinese Listed Multinational Corporations: The Mediating Effect of ESG Performance and Moderating Role of Stakeholder Engagement and Public Policy Support
  • 6 Nov 2025
  • Based-GAN Multi-Student Model Extraction Attack and Defensive Strategies Utilizing Watermarking
  • 1 Sep 2025
  • Reversible Adversarial Examples for Intellectual Property Protection of Image Datasets
  • 26 Aug 2025
  • Developing policy understanding using Large Language Models to support policy analytical tasks
  • 11 Aug 2025
  • Personalized Care Plans at Baptcare
  • 26 May 2025
  • Advancing Human-aligned AI
  • 6 Feb 2025
  • AI-driven Workforce Roster
  • 5 Feb 2025
  • Securing LLMs for Financial Applicaitons
  • 22 Feb 2024
  • PhD Proposal - Evaluating and Mitigating Cyber Risks in Enterprise AI Systems
  • 1 Dec 2023
  • Security Analysis of ECG-Based Authentication in Wearable Devices
  • 21 Aug 2023
  • Sustainable AI Transformation for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) in the Fashion Ecosystem - An Ambidextrous Approach
  • 4 Aug 2023
  • Build trustworthy and resilient distributed learning system via identifying and resolving threats
  • 25 Jul 2023
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Acknowledgement of Country

RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.

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