Karen(Lujie) Chen
Research Analyst
Biography
I got my master degree in Information System Management from Carnegie Mellon University in December 2004 where I got the chance to work on several data mining/business intelligence projects in application domains of machinery, commercial product, biomedical and medical information system etc. Before that, I spent around 4 years in the business world as financial analyst with Coca-Cola China and as an auditor with Big 4 accounting firm. During that period of time, I tried out the taste of the journalism by being involved in a Chinese Entrepreneurship research project sponsored by Forbes magazine. I was born and spent most of time in Shanghai, a costal city in mainland China. I had my undergraduate education in Shanghai Jiaotong University there, majored in international business and computer technology.
Research Interests
I am interested in every aspect of machine learning/data mining that would make it practically useful and finally make the life easier in the real world. I am always ready to appreciate the beauty and elegance of the algorithms and/or new technology in this area; meanwhile, I am very aware that the real world problems are never as easy as “plug and play”. They have every property that exact science won’t like: ambiguous, ill-formulated, rough, confusing …… and sometimes (overly) ambitious, which are exactly the things I’d love to deal with. It’s my goal to craft solution which would indeed address and solve the real problems, thus make end users feel comfortable, convinced and happy…