I am an academic staff member of Machine Learning and Optimization Research Group in School of Computer Science at The University of Manchester. I do research and teaching in computer science and computational cognitive systems. My Research Interests mainly lie in pattern recognition, machine learning, machine perception, computional cognitive modelling and their applications in intelligent system development. I have been in the current post since 2003. I was with The University of Birmingham, Peking University, The Ohio State University, Kyushu Instititue of Technology and Tsinghua University. I was also a visiting researcher at Microsoft Research Asia and a visiting professor at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. At present, I am a senior member of IEEE, a member of IEEE Computional Intelligence Society and a member of International Neural Network Society. For more academic activities I get involved in, see my Academic Activity page.

I am keen to supervise PhD students who have research interests similar to mine (for details, see my Research Interest and Publication pages). For prospective applicants, you are strongly suggested to visit my Research Student page first before contacting me, where you should be able to find a proper academic inquiry procedure and important information including my suggested projects, our PhD application procedure and the current scholarship and funding availability for EU and non-EU applicants. For a young researcher who recently received a PhD in machine learning, pattern recognition, machine perception, computational cognitive systems or related disciplines and wants to visit our lab, you can directly contact me for the further information including possible financial support opportunities.

Ke CHEN
School of Computer Science
The University of Manchester
G10 Killburn Buliding
Manchester M13 9PL
United Kingdom

Tel: +44 161 306 4565
Fax: +44 161 275 6204
Email: chen<@>cs.manchester.ac.uk
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