C. L. Philip Chen
Also known as Junlong Chen, Philip Chen
Philip Chen is a computer scientist whose machine learning work includes the Broad Learning System, an efficient incremental learning system designed without a deep architecture. He earned an electrical engineering PhD at Purdue in 1988, joined Wright State, and later held department leadership at UT San Antonio and the University of Macau. In 2010, he was elected president-elect of IEEE's Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society; he later edited two IEEE journals through 2021. He became an IAPR Fellow and received the IEEE Norbert Wiener Award in 2018, then received the IEEE Joseph Wohl Lifetime Achievement Award in 2021. As of October 2026, he is dean and chair professor of computer science at South China University of Technology.
- Now at
- South China University of Technology and Ministry of Education
- Works
- 1,412
- Citations
- 67,618
- h-index
- 130
Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 15 October 2026.
Timeline
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1988
An electrical engineering PhD
He earns a PhD in electrical engineering from Purdue in 1988 and joins Wright State University's Department of Computer Science and Engineering.
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By 2010
Department chair in Texas
By 2010, he has served as department chair and associate dean at the University of Texas at San Antonio before becoming dean of the University of Macau's Faculty of Science and Technology.
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2010–2012
An IEEE society election
In 2010, he is elected president-elect of IEEE's Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society, with office scheduled to begin in January 2012.
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2014–2021
Editing two IEEE journals
He edits IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems from 2014 to 2019, then IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics from 2020 to 2021.
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2018
The Broad Learning System
His team publishes a 2018 Broad Learning System paper that describes efficient incremental learning without a deep architecture.
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2018–2021
Wiener and Wohl awards
IAPR elects him a Fellow in 2018 for machine-learning contributions to image processing, security, recognition, and classification. He receives the IEEE Norbert Wiener Award in 2018 and the IEEE Joseph Wohl Lifetime Achievement Award in 2021.
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As of October 2026
Dean and chair professor at SCUT
He is dean and chair professor of the School of Computer Science at South China University of Technology, and he directs the Ministry of Education's Health Intelligence and Digital Parallel Human Engineering Center.
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