Qi Chen received the B.E. degree in Automation from the University of South China, Hunan, China in 2005 and the M.E. degree in Software Engineering from Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China in 2007, and the PhD degree in Computer Science in 2018 at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Since 2014, she has joined the Evolutionary Computation Research Group at Victoria University of Wellington (VUW). Currently, she is a Senior Lecturer in School of Engineering and Computer Science at Victoria University of Wellington.

Her current research mainly focus on genetic programming, symbolic regression, mathematical modelling, and statistical learning theory. Her research interests including machine learning, evolutionary computation, feature selection, feature construction, transfer learning, domain adaptation.