Xingran Chen

 

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Email: xingranc@ieee.org
Office: 218B, Research Building B, UESTC, 2006 West Yuan Avenue, High-tech Zone, Chengdu.

Bio: Xingran Chen is an assistant professor in the Department of Network Engineering at the School of Information and Communication Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (as of Sep. 2023). He received his B.S. (Statistics, 2015) degree from Central South University, M.A. (Applied Mathematics and Computational Science, 2018) and Ph.D. (Electrical and System Engineering, 2023) degrees from the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests are in the intersection of information theory, machine learning, and network science. He was a recipient of the IEEE Communications Society & Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award in 2023. He served as a guest editor for China Communications in 2024.

Academic Positions

University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
     Assistant Professor, Department of Network Engineering, School of Information and Communication Engineering, Sep. 2023- present.

Education

University of Pennsylvania
     Ph.D. in Electrical and Systems Engineering, 2018-2023.
         Advisor: Prof. Shirin Saeedi-Bidokhti
         Thesis Committee: Prof. Shirin Saeedi-Bidokhti, Prof. Saswati Sarkar, Prof. Hamed Hassani, Prof. Eytan Modiano, Prof. Aylin Yener
     M.A. in Applied Mathematics and Computational Science, 2016-2018.

Central South University
     M.S. in Operations Research, 2015-2016. [transfer to Upenn]
     B.S. in Statistics, 2011-2015.