Eddy Keming Chen is an Associate Professor of Philosophy and Data Science at UC San Diego. He earned his Ph.D. in philosophy, an M.Sc. in mathematics, and a graduate certificate in cognitive science from Rutgers University, New Brunswick, in 2019. His primary research interests are the foundations of artificial intelligence, philosophy of physics, philosophy of science, and metaphysics, including the foundations of quantum mechanics and statistical mechanics, the arrow of time, probability, and laws of nature. His recent research interests concern the philosophical and conceptual foundations of artificial intelligence, including questions about the nature of intelligence, randomness, and simplicity.

His work has appeared in venues including Nature, The Philosophical Review, and the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, and has been featured in New Scientist and Scientific American. He received the Popper Prize and an American Philosophical Association Public Philosophy Op-Ed Prize, and is Co-PI of a Templeton grant on quantum foundations.