Research

Last Updated - October 14, 2025


Working Papers

* corresponding author

  • Du Chen, Youhua (Frank) Chen*, Geoffrey A. Chua. Design and Analysis of Algorithms for Privacy-Aware Online Allocation under Heterogeneous Privacy Expectations [Preprint]
    Under Review at Operations Research

  • Du Chen, Geoffrey A. Chua, Victor Richmond R. Jose*. Joint Differential Privacy for Resource Allocation: Protection Capability, Price of Privacy, Algorithm Design, and Policy Implications [Preprint]
    Under 2nd-Round Review at Management Science
    🏆 Winner: Singapore Rising Scholars Conference 2025 Best Paper Award
    🏆 Awardee of the IFORS Travelling Fellowship at the APORS Youth Forum 2025

  • Du Chen, Geoffrey A. Chua*. An Algorithmic Approach to Managing Supply Chain Data Security: The Differentially Private Newsvendor [Preprint]
    Under Minor Revision at Operations Research (Pending Code Submission)


Publications

  • Du Chen*, Geoffrey A. Chua. Exploiting Hidden Symmetry to Improve Objective Perturbation for DP Linear Learners with a Nonsmooth L1-Norm [Paper]
    The Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2025)

  • Du Chen*, Geoffrey A. Chua. Noisy Dual Mirror Descent: A Near Optimal Algorithm for Jointly-DP Convex Resource Allocation [Paper]
    The Thirty-eighth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2024)

  • Du Chen*, Geoffrey A. Chua. Differentially Private Stochastic Convex Optimization under a Quantile Loss Function [Paper]
    Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2023)

Publications prior to my Ph.D. can be found here.


Research Grants

I have drafted some research grant proposals on privacy-aware operations

  • Managing Data Security in Supply Chains: Algorithmic Approaches and Economic Implications
    PI: Geoffrey A. Chua
    The Ministry of Education Singapore, Academic Research Fund, Tier 1, Grant No. RG117/23, 2024-2027

Professional Service

Reviewer for:

  • ICLR (2025, 2026)
  • NeurIPS (2025)