Dr Fuxiang Chen

Dr Fuxiang Chen is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences of the University of Leicester (UoL), United Kingdom. Prior to joining UoL in 2022, he worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of British Columbia, Canada. He obtained a PhD degree (in Computer Science and Engineering) from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2018 under the supervision of Prof. Sunghun Kim. He also obtained a Master degree from the National University of Singapore. Besides his experiences in academia, he has also worked in the industry (Startups, Big-Tech companies and Government) for multiple years as a Senior Research Scientist, Research Scientist, IT Manager and Software Engineer.

His research focuses on utilising unstructured data with an emphasis on core Natural Language Understanding, Software Engineering, Medical Images and their practical usages. Recently, he is working on multiple projects, including developing efficient parameter fine-tuning techniques for large language models, among others. In the past, he has worked on a myriad of interesting problems such as automated debugging and explanation, code summarization, code generation, analysis of pre-trained language models, paraphrase generation, automated test case generation, rumour detection, summarization of low-resource news, etc.

My broad research interests are in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Software Engineering (SE). For a more fine-grained list of my interests, please see below:

• Machine Learning / Deep Learning for paraphrasing

• Machine Learning / Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing (NLP) application

• Machine Learning / Deep Learning for medical image analysis

• Image generation and translation via Machine Learning / Deep Learning

• Machine Learning / Deep Learning for code summarization, program debugging and test case generation

• Social media analysis and text mining

Selected Publications

I am always looking for self-motivated Postdocs, prospective graduate students, and undergraduate students. If you're interested in working with me, please send me an email introducing yourself with your full Curriculum Vitae and transcript. 

Current MPhil / PhD Students

1st Supervisor

Jia-ji Wang (MPhil - from 2023, to start PhD)
Yiyun Chen, GTA Scholarship Awardee (PhD - from 2024)
Yongyi Ji, CSC Scholarship Awardee (PhD - from 2024)
Zhenyang Li (PhD - from 2019)
Ziquan Zhu, CSC Scholarship Awardee (PhD - from 2021)

2nd Supervisor

Alanoud A.M. Alqahtani, Saudi Arabia Government Scholarship Awardee (PhD - from 2023)

BSc / MSc Students

I supervise a number of final year BSc / MSc students every year. If you are interested to be supervised by me, please contact me via e-mail to introduce yourself and tell me why you want me to supervise your FYP.

Semester 1

Semester 2

Chair

Program Committee Member / Reviewer

Invited Guest Reviewer

External Reviewer