Xingran Chen (陈星燃)
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Email: xingranc@ieee.org
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Xingran Chen is a tenure-track Assistant Professor (as of Jul. 2026) in the Engineering Systems and Design (ESD) Pillar at Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). Prior to joining SUTD, he was a postdoc at Rutgers University (Jan. 2025 - Apr. 2026), and an Assistant Professor at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (Sep. 2023 - May 2026). He earned his Ph.D. in Electrical and Systems Engineering (May 2023) from the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Chen's research focuses on learning, information processing and transfer, and security in decentralized networked systems. He received the IEEE Communications Society & Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award in 2023. Dr. Chen is a member of IEEE. He has served the research community through editorial and conference service, including a Guest Editor for China Communications in 2024 and Entropy in 2025, and as a Technical Program Committee Member for WiOpt 2026, IEEE ICC 2024, and IEEE GLOBECOM 2020 Workshop 7. His research is supported by NSF of China and Ministry of Education of China.
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- I am delighted to announce that I will be joining the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) as an Assistant Professor.
- Our paper Random Walk Learning and the Pac-Man Attack has been accepted by IEEE ISIT.
- Delivered a talk Walk For Resiliency & Privacy: A Random Walk Framework for Learning at the Edge at the 4th Resilient & Intelligent NextG Systems (RINGS) program PI meeting.
- Delivered a talk Self-Creating Random Walks for Decentralized Learning under Pac-Man Attacks at ESD Seminar, Singapore University of Technology and Design.
- Delivered a talk Random Walk Learning and the Pac-Man Attack at the Joint Mathematics Meetings (JMM), Washington, D.C.
- Our paper Decentralized Learning Strategies for Estimation Error Minimization with Graph Neural Networks has been accepted by IEEE ICASSP.
- Call for papers: The special issue Goal-Oriented Communication: Freshness, Semantics, and Beyond has been extended until Sep. 2026.
- Delivered a talk Random Walk Learning and the Pac-Man Attack at the Signal and Information Processing (SIP) Seminar Series, Rutgers University.
- Invited as TPC member for WiOpt 2026.
- Our paper Timely Requesting for Time-Critical Content Users in Decentralized F-RANs has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Networking (ToN)
- Our paper Age of Computing: A Metric of Computation Freshness in Communication and Computation Cooperative Networks has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC)
- Call for papers: The special issue Goal-Oriented Communication: Freshness, Semantics, and Beyond has been extended until Nov. 2025.
- I am currently a postdoctoral researcher at Rutgers University and on academic leave from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China.