Scholar
Tingjun Chen
Google Scholar ID: RPmhP24AAAAJ
Nortel Networks Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University
Citations & Impact
Citations
1,434
H-index
20
i10-index
47
Publications
20
Co-authors
121
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Recognized by an NSF CAREER Award (2025), two NVIDIA Academic Awards (2025, 2024), two IBM Academic Awards (2023, 2021), a Google Research Scholar Award (2021), the Columbia Engineering Morton B. Friedman Memorial Prize for Excellence (2021), the Columbia University Eli Jury Award (2021), a Facebook Fellowship (2019), and a Wei Family Private Foundation (WFPF) Fellowship (2014). Received multiple paper awards from IEEE/Optica OFC’24 (Top-Scored Paper), IEEE/Optica OFC’23 (Top-Scored Paper), ECOC’23 (Best Paper Award), ACM CoNEXT’16 (Best Paper Award), ACM MobiHoc’19 (Best Paper Finalist), and IEEE MTT-S IMS’19 (Advanced Practice Paper Finalist). Ph.D. thesis received the ACM SIGMOBILE Dissertation Award Runner-up. WiLO Networks Inc. has been supported by NSF SBIR Phase I and Phase II Awards (TI-2108012 and TI-2345381).
Research Experience
- Nortel Networks assistant professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering with a secondary appointment in Computer Science at Duke University. Directs the FuNCtions Lab, working with a group of talented students on various projects cutting across the networking, communication, sensing, and energy-efficient computing aspects of wireless, mobile, optical, and quantum networked systems. Also a co-founder and advisor of WiLO Networks Inc., a start-up focusing on low-power sensor hardware and end-to-end systems.
Education
- Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University in 2020 (advisor: Prof. Gil Zussman); B.Eng. in Electronic Engineering from Tsinghua University in 2014 (advisors: Prof. Zhisheng Niu and Prof. Sheng Zhou). Postdoc in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Yale University in 2020–2021, working with Prof. Leandros Tassiulas and Prof. Lin Zhong.
Background
- Interests include future wireless, mobile, optical, and quantum networks as well as intelligent IoT systems. Recent research focuses on both theoretical and experimental aspects of massive antenna systems and millimeter-wave networks, optical and quantum networks, and spectrum sharing systems, and their convergence with edge cloud, energy-efficient computing, and AI/ML. Also enjoys building efficient hardware-software systems and experimental testbeds at scale.
Miscellany
- Always looking for motivated and creative B.S., M.S., Ph.D. students, and Postdocs to join the group in Duke ECE.
