Zhengxing Chen
czxttkl@gmail.com
PhD Student, RA Computer Science Northeastern Univ.
PhD Student, RA Computer Science Northeastern Univ.
My PhD research topic is building personalized recommendation systems in video games. I am interested in player modeling, play style clustering and virtual behavior prediction in video games using machine learning, data mining and statistical tests.
Oct. 2018 - Present
Research Scientist on Applied Reinforcement Learning
- Jason Gauci, Edoardo Conti, Yitao Liang, Kittipat Virochsiri, Yuchen He, Zachary Kaden, Vivek Narayanan, Xiaohui Ye, Zhengxing Chen. Horizon: Facebook's Open Source Applied Reinforcement Learning Platform. In ICML RL4Real Workshop, 2019. Best Paper.
Sept. 2013 - Oct. 2018
PhD, Computer Science
Research Topic
Personalized Recommendation Systems in Video Games- Zhengxing Chen, Truong-Huy D. Nguyen, Yuyu Xu, Chris Amato, Seth Cooper, Yizhou Sun, and Magy Seif El-Nasr. The Art of Drafting: A Team-Oriented Hero Recommendation System for Multiplayer Online Battle Arena Games. In ACM Conference on Recommnder System (RecSys), 2018.
- Zhengxing Chen, Chris Amato, Truong-Huy D. Nguyen, Seth Cooper, Yizhou Sun, and Magy Seif El-Nasr. Q-DeckRec: A Fast Deck Recommendation System for Collectible Card Games. In IEEE Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG), 2018.
- Zhengxing Chen, Su Xue, John Kolen, Navid Aghdaie, Kazi A. Zaman, Yizhou Sun, and Magy Seif El-Nasr. EOMM: An Engagement Optimized Matchmaking Framework. In International Conference on World Wide Web (WWW), 2017.
- Zhengxing Chen, Yizhou Sun, Magy Seif El-Nasr, and Truong-Huy D. Nguyen. Player Skill Decomposition in Multiplayer Online Battle Arenas. In Meaningful Play, 2016. (Link: NEU CCIS paper requirement page)
- Zhengxing Chen, Magy Seif El-Nasr, Alessandro Canossa, Jeremy Badler, Stefanie Tignor, and Randy Colvin. Modeling Individual Differences through Frequent Pattern Mining on Role-Playing Game Actions. In AIIDE-2015 Player Modeling Workshop, 2015.
- Truong-Huy D. Nguyen, Zhengxing Chen, and Magy Seif El-Nasr. Analytics-based AI Techniques for Better Gaming Experience. In Game AI Pro 2, 2015.
- Edward Melcer, Truong-Huy D. Nguyen, Zhengxing Chen, Alessandro Canossa, Magy Seif El-Nasr, and Katherine Isbister. Games Research Today: Analyzing the Academic Landscape 2000-2014. In Foundation of Digital Games, 2015. Best Paper.