ACM SIGMM Rising Star Award 2024

The winner of the ACM SIGMM Rising Star for 2024 is Dr. Jingjing Chen for her significant contributions in multimedia content analysis and multimedia models.

Dr. Chen is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science, Fudan University. Her team is focusing on the research and innovation of robust multimedia content  analysis, vision and language, and multimodal learning.  Prior to joining Fudan University in 2019, she was a Postdoc Research Fellow in National University of Singapore, advertised by Prof. Tat-Seng Chua. Dr. Chen is an active participant of several benchmark evaluations. She completed a Ph.D. in computer science (2018) at City University of Hong Kong, advised by Prof. Chong-Wah Ngo.

Over the past years, Dr. Chen has been engaged in continuous research on multimedia content analysis and its applications, focusing on addressing the challenges faced in multimedia data analysis, including diverse data types, lack of labeled samples, and model vulnerability to abnormal samples.  

Her research works have received recognition from academic organizations in China and beyond, and she has received several accolades, including the Best Student Paper Award at the ACM Multimedia in 2016, the Best Student Paper Award at the Multimedia Modeling conference in 2017, the Best Paper Award at the China Multimedia Conference in 2022, "ACM Shanghai Rising Star Award" in 2020,  and the "AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Nomination Award" in 2021. Moreover, she was also listed on the 2023 Baidu "AI Chinese Women's Young Scholars List". In addition, Dr. Chen has also spent efforts in open academic research resources. She has constructed two large-scale food attribute recognition datasets, including Vireo Food-172 and Vireo Food-251. 

Dr. Chen actively engages in academic services, serving as the editor for ACM SIGMM Records, an editorial board member of the IEEE Trans. on Multimedia, Neurocomputing and a member of the Multimedia Systems & Applications Technical Committee. Besides, she has also served as a organization committee members and area chairs of several renowned international conference, such as the Registration Chair of ACM Multimedia 2021 and the Special Session Chair of ICME 2022, as well as Area Chairs for ACM Multimedia 2024/2020.

Many Congratulations to Jingjing Chen!

Phoebe Chen,
ACM SIGMM Vice-Chair
On Behalf of SIGMM Rising Star Award Committee


November 10, 2024