Xingran Chen (陈星燃)
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Google Scholar Bio: Xingran Chen is a postdoctoral researcher at Rutgers University. He is also an assistant professor (currently on leave) in the Department of Network Engineering at the School of Information and Communication Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (as of September 2023). He earned his B.S. in Statistics (2015) from Central South University, followed by an M.A. in Applied Mathematics and Computational Science (2018) and a Ph.D. in Electrical and Systems Engineering (2023) from the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on the intersection of information theory, machine learning, and network science. In 2023, he received the IEEE Communications Society & Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award. He also served as a guest editor for China Communications in 2024, and Entropy (Special Issue: Goal-Oriented Communication: Freshness, Semantics, and Beyond) in 2025. |
Academic Positions
Postdoc, Jan. 2025 - present.
Rutgers University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Advisor: Prof. Salim El Rouayheb.
Assistant Professor, Sep. 2023 - present. (currently on leave since Jan. 2025 for family reasons)
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, School of Information and Communication Engineering.
Education
Ph.D. in Electrical and Systems Engineering,University of Pennsylvania, 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, University of Pennsylvania, 2016-2018.
M.S. in Operations Research, Central South University, 2015-2016. [transfer to Upenn]
B.S. in Statistics, Central South University, 2011-2015.