Jieen Chen, PhD

Dr. Jieen Chen is the academic director and lecturer of the cybersecurity master’s program at Kepha Institute of Columbia International University (CIU). He works as an AI software engineer at Gargantua Group, where he designs AI solutions leveraging Large Language Models, multimodal models, and knowledge graphs.

At CIU, Dr. Chen serves on the academic administrative team and lectures in computer networks and coding, while conducting research at the intersection of AI and cybersecurity.

Jieen earned his doctoral degree in computer science from the University of Tübingen, Germany, after completing a master’s degree in photonics. His doctoral research focused on machine‑learning approaches to the design of computational photography systems.