Xingran Chen (陈星燃)
Assistant Professor, Engineering Systems and Design Pillar
Singapore University of Technology and Design
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Email: xingranc@ieee.org or chen_xingran@sutd.edu.sg
Office: 1.702.11, Building 1, 8 Somapah Road, Singapore.
Bio:
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 - Apr. 2026). He earned his Ph.D. in Electrical and Systems Engineering (May 2023) from the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Chen's research focuses on fundamental limits and algorithm design for decentralized learning and decision-making in 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 actively served the research community as a Guest Editor for China Communications and Entropy, and as an Advisory TPC member or TPC member for major international conferences, including IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE ITW, WiOpt, and IEEE ICC. His research is supported by NSF of China and Ministry of Education of China.
Recent News
- Invited as a TPC member for WiOpt 2027.
- Our paper Self-Creating Random Walks for Decentralized Learning under Pac-Man Attacks has been accepted by IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC).
- Invited as a TPC member for IEEE ICC 2027.
- Our paper RW-LoRA: Communication-Efficient Decentralized LoRA Fine-Tuning via Random Walks has been accepted by IEEE ITW.
- Invited as a TPC member for IEEE ITW 2027.
- Delivered a talk Self-Creating Random Walks for Decentralized Learning under Pac-Man Attacks at Sun Yat-sen University - Zhuhai Campus.
- Delivered a talk Resilient and Efficient Random-Walk-Based Decentralized Learning at the School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China.
- Invited as an advisory TPC member for IEEE INFOCOM 2027.
- 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 a 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.