Jun-Cheng Chen is an Associate Research Fellow at the Research Center for Information Technology Innovation (CITI), Academia Sinica. He joined CITI as an assistant research fellow in 2019. He received the BS and MS degrees advised by Prof. Ja-Ling Wu in Computer Science and Information Engineering from National Taiwan University, Taiwan (R.O.C), in 2004 and 2006, respectively, where he received the PhD degree advised by Prof. Rama Chellappa in Computer Science from University of Maryland, College Park, USA, in 2016. From 2017 to 2019, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies. His research interests include computer vision, machine learning, deep learning and their applications to biometrics, such as face recognition/facial analytics, activity recognition/detection in the visual surveillance domain, etc. His works have been recognized in prestigious journals and conferences in the field, including PNAS, TBIOM, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICLR, WACV, etc. He was a recipient of the ACM Multimedia Best Technical Full Paper Award in 2006, APSIPA ASC Best Paper Award in 2023, and IEEE CE Magazine Best Paper Award in 2025.