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Tingting Chen

Professor, Computer Science
College of Science

Expertise:

Big Data Security & Privacy, AI Applications in Medical Systems, Artificial Intelligence Research, Privacy Preservation, Security Extensions on Mobility Scooters

Tingting Chen specializes in big data security, data privacy, health informatics and AI applications in medical systems. Past work has included mobile payments in global networks, privacy preservation in the aggregation of data, and data privacy and accuracy in digitized medical records.

 

In the last few years, Chen has focused on improving the safety of mobility scooters for people with disabilities and ways to enhance the security and privacy features of those scooters. She and her team recently developed ScooterID, the first framework authenticating rider posture data from cameras on mobility scooters enhancing user/rider safety. Current one-time authentication methods fail to provide user comfort, have high deployment costs and have failed to provide protection against the rising number of scooter thefts. The continuous authentication method of ScooterID would replace the use of physical keys and traditional password one-time security methods, providing easier access for senior citizens with issues with memory recall, issuing a seamless authentication approach against takeovers of unauthorized user access.

 

Building on that project, Chen’s research team is building a driving safety assessment system that can be used in home or clinical settings to assist doctors and rehabilitation experts.

 

Chen is also the founder of the award-winning non-profit Code the Spectrum; a non-profit organization focused on providing technical training for neurodivergent people and connecting them to information technology-related job opportunities.

 

Recent Grants and Fellowships:

  • National Science Foundation, Collaborative Research: “Computer Information and Science Engineering-MSI: DP: Computer and Network Systems: Multi-Modal User-Centric Mobility Scooter Driving Safety Assessment System,” $474,229 (2023-2026) 
  • Co-PI, Computing Alliance of Hispanic-Serving Institution- Google Institutional Research Program Award, “Adversarial Robustness Auditing for Lightweight Mobility Scooter Rider Evaluation Systems,” $80,000 (2025-2026)  
  • Co-PI, California Education Learning Lab, “Greater LA Data Science Pathways,” (GLADS-PATH), $1,275,000, (2023-2027) 
  • Google Research Explore Computer Science Research, “Explore Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Research Pathways, $39,000 (2022-2023) & $18,000 (2023-2024) 
  • National Science Foundation Computer and Network Systems, Research Experience for Undergraduates Site: Undergraduate Research Experience in Big Data Security and Privacy, $434,930 (supplement of $30,000 in 2021) (2021-2024) 
  • Co-PI, U.S. Department of Education Title III, Hispanic Serving Institution Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Program, “STARS: Student Success and Transfer Articulation through Research and Support Services—An HSI STEM Transformation Project,” $4,950,000 (2021-2026)
     

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Education:

B.S., M.S., Computer Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology 

Ph.D., Computer Science and Engineering, State University of New York at Buffalo 

Languages:

English, Mandarin

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