Scholar
Tianyi Chen
Google Scholar ID: kFwvv38AAAAJ
Associate Professor of ECE, Cornell University; Cornell Tech; RPI
Citations & Impact
Citations
5,023
H-index
34
i10-index
61
Publications
20
Co-authors
0
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Recipient of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Best PhD Dissertation Award (2020); recipient of the NSF CAREER Award (2021); recipient of the Amazon Research Award (2022); co-author of the Best Student Paper Award at the NeurIPS Federated Learning Workshop (2020), the IEEE ICASSP Conference (2021), and the IEEE Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award (2024).
Research Experience
- Currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University; was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) from 2019 to 2025, and was promoted to tenured Associate Professor in 2025; currently working at Cornell Tech.
Education
- Ph.D.: University of Minnesota, supervised by Prof. Georgios B. Giannakis (2019); B.Sc.: Fudan University, graduated with highest honors (2014).
Background
- Research interests: statistical signal processing, wireless communication, and optimization; recent research focuses on bilevel optimization, multi-objective optimization, and their applications in AI and learning problems such as LLM fine-tuning and alignment, meta-learning, and federated learning; emerging computing systems like next-generation wireless systems and analog in-memory computing.
Miscellany
- Looking for determined postdocs and students to join the research group at Cornell Tech, especially those with backgrounds in optimization, advanced computing, and wireless networks.
Co-authors