I am Zheng Chen (陈峥), a specially appointed assistant professor at SANKEN, Osaka University, in Sakurai&Matsubara Lab, leading AIBIC group (AI for Bio Informatics and Care). I received Ph.D. degree from NAIST, advised by Prof. Shigehiko Kanaya in March 2022. While AI methods have shown promising performance, their recognition and adoption in healthcare and industry remain limited. My research aims to explore reasonable, reliable forms of automated biomedical systems designed on top of prior knowledge and practical considerations. I have a deep-rooted interest in bio-signals, time series data, and biological networks.

Feel free to contact me via chenz@sanken.osaka-u.ac.jp.

Work Experience

• 2022.12.01 - now: Specially Appointed Assistant Professor, ISIR, Osaka University, Japan
• 2022.02.16 - 2022.11.30: Postdoctoral Researcher, Osaka University, Japan
• 2021.10.01 - 2022.03.31: Research Trainee, RIKEN R-CCS, Japan

News

• [2025/05/21]: Our No-Coding Genomic Data Management System has been accepted accepted by ISMB/ECCB 2025.
• [2025/05/19]: Our MLOmics has been accepted accepted by Nature Scientific Data.
• [2025/03/22]: Congrats to Zihang for receiving 2025-2028 JST BOOST Fellowship!
• [2025/03/11]: Congrats to Koki for receiving 2025-2027 Humanware Innovation Fellowship!
• [2025/02/14]: One paper accepted by PAKDD-25.
• [2025/01/23]: Congrats to Ziwei and Rikuto! Our work, GeSubNet, has been accepted at ICLR-25 as an Oral Presentation (top 1.8%)!
• [2025/01/22]: One paper accepted by Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine.
• [2025/01/13]: Serving as the Area Chair of KDD 2025 ADS Track February.
• [2025/01/02]: Our ICLR 2025 Workshop on AI for Children (AI4CHL) has been accepted.
• [2024/12/10]: Our work, SODor, has been accepted as an Oral Presentation at AAAI-25! Acceptance rate: 4.6% (600/12,957 submissions).
• [2024/09/06]: Congrats to Rikuto for his first work, SplitSEE, accepted by ICDM-24!
• [2024/08/07]: One paper accepted by IEEE Transactions on on NanoBioscience.
• [2024/06/28]: Congrats to Paku for receiving 2024-2027 JST SPRING Fellowship!
• [2024/06/17]: Congrats to Rikuto for receiving 2024-2027 JST BOOST Fellowship!
• [2024/06/03]: Congrats to Ziwei for receiving 2024-2026 JST SPRING Fellowship!
• [2024/05/17]: Congrats to Xihao for his first work, Fredformer, accepted by KDD-24 Research Track! [Paper] [Code] [Presentation]
• [2024/02/20]: One paper accepted by IEEE PES General Meeting.
• [2024/01/03]: One paper accepted by IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation.

My Group

– Ziwei Yang, Ph.D student, Kyoto University, 2023.4 - (multi-omics data, bio-network)

– Kotoge Rikuto, Ph.D student, Osaka University, 2024.4 - (EEG, brain dynamic modeling)

– Xihao Piao (Paku), Ph.D student, Osaka University, 2024.4 - (time series, fairness)

– Zihang Wang (Alex), Ph.D student, Waseda University, 2024.10 - (neuromorphic computing)

– Koki Yoshida, M.Sc student, Osaka University, 2025.4 - (EEG, biosignal foundation model)

– Yiming Wu, M.Sc student, Osaka University, 2025.4 - (LLM/Agent for bioinformatics)

– Adil Gafarli, M.Sc student, Osaka University, 2023.4 - 2025.3 (arrhythmias prediction)