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 Systems
Education
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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)
Publications
- Developing Problem-Solving Competency in Data Science: Exploring A Case-Based Approach 2025
- Engaging K-12 Learners in Data Annotation for AI Climate Models 2025
- Affect, Support and Personal Factors: Multimodal Causal Models of One-on-one Coaching
Presentations
- Engaging K-12 Learners in Data Annotation for AI Climate Models 2025
- Affect, Support and Personal Factors: Multimodal Causal Models of One-on-one Coaching 2021
- Student Postures Analysis in Real Classrooms: Building Interpretable Descriptors for Student Posture Analysis in a Physical Classroom 2021
- Do we need to go Deep? Knowledge Tracing with Big Data 2021
Grants and Contracts
- Caselet+: Inclusive Data Science Problem Solving Skills Building at Scale 2021
- Collaborative Research: NRI: FUNstration Bot: a Personal Coach for Perseverance in Mathematical Problem-Solving (2022)
Research in Progress
- Towards Explainable and Safe Conversational Agents for Mental Health: A Survey 2022
Courses Taught
- Foundations of Data Science
- Foundations of Data Science
- Decision Support Systems