Xu Chen is currently an algorithm expert at Alibaba Group, working on developing large-scale image-to-product searching system (i.e. Pailitao or 拍立淘) at Taobao. Pailitao has become one of the largest ranking/visual/multi-modal application scenarios in China, serving hundred of million customers. His research mainly focuses on trustworthy representation learning, information retrieval and knowledge transfer. Before taking the faculty job, he received the PhD degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) in 2021.09. He also received the dual PhD degree from University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) in 2022.05. He has published 15+ top journal and conference papers, with 1500+ google scholar citations. He has also been the PC members of top conferences including ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR, KDD and serves as the reviewer of top journals such as TPAMI, TNNLS, MLJ, TKDE.

Research Interests

· Trustworthy Representation Learning: graph representation learning / self-supervised learning / pretraining
· Information Retrieval: ranking / recommendation / sequential modeling
· Knowledge Transfer: cross-domain knowledge transfer / vLLMs’ knowledge transfer

Job Experience

· Algorithm Expert (May, 2024 – Now)
Taobao, Alibaba Group
· Senior Algorithm Engineer (October, 2021 – April, 2024)
Taobao, Alibaba Group
· Research Intern (September, 2020 – December, 2020)
DAMO Acedemy, Alibaba Group

Education

· Doctor of Philosophy (August, 2019 – May, 2022)
Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Technology Sydney
Supervised by Prof.Ivor W. Tsang
· Doctor of Philosophy (September, 2016 – September, 2021)
Electronic Information and Communication Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Supervised by Prof.Ya Zhang
· Bachelor of Engineering (August, 2012 – July, 2016)
Electronic Information Engineering, XiDian University

Honors and Awards

· 2024 淘天集团–技术坚毅之星(持续为拍立淘业务做出出色的贡献)
· 2021 杭州市顶尖人才(淘天校招SSP或阿里星offer可评选)
· 2019 中国留学基金委CSC公派留学奖学金
· 2017 上海交通大学协同创新中心A等奖学金
· 2016 专业top1 保送上海交通大学直博
· 2014 特等奖学金，国家奖学金
· 2013 特等奖学金，国家奖学金