Dr. Lujie Karen Chen
Assistant Professor · Tenure-Track
Department of Information Systems
College of Engineering and Information Technology
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About
Lujie Karen Chen is an Assistant Professor with Information Systems Department. She works at the interaction of data science/statistics, machine learning, AI, and applications in healthcare and education. She is interested in many aspects of the data-driven and human-centered approaches to optimize human flourishing for patients and students, as well as service providers such as healthcare workers and teachers. She holds degrees in Information Systems (MISM, Ph.D.) and Statistics (M.S.), all from Carnegie Mellon University. During her Ph.D. career, she was an Interdisciplinary Educational Research Fellow funded by the US Department of Education.Research interests
I am an applied data science and machine learning researcher interested in solving real-world problems using data-driven, human-centric and inclusive approaches. I am especially interested in domains where human flourishing plays a central role, such as healthcare and education. I am interested in not only solutions that can directly improve patients or students’ outcomes, but also those that could leverage machine intelligence to support human service providers (such as healthcare workers, teachers, social workers, or parents) by augmenting their cognitive functions to improve job performance and maximize their own wellbeing. To this end, I often rely on fine-grained data describing the complex human physiological and psychological processes and interaction in the naturalistic environment.Teaching interests
Data science, Data mining, Decision Support SystemsEducation
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Ph D, Information Systems
— Carnegie Mellon University (2020) Augmenting Human Perceptual and Reasoning Capabilities: From Healthcare to Education
- MS, Statistics — Carnegie Mellon University (2012)
- MS, Information Systems — Carnegie Mellon University (2004)
- BS, International Business & Computer Science — Shanghai Jiaotong University (1998)