Chao Chen Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Computer Engineering
Director of Graduate Program, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Office: ET 327D
Phone: (260) 481-6359
Email: chenc[AT]pfw.edu
Biography
Dr. Chao Chen is currently an Associate Professor of
Computer Engineering in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
at Purdue University Fort Wayne, where she has been since 2005.
She received her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Georgia
Institute of Technology in 2003 and 2005, respectively. She also earned
B.E. and M.E. degrees from Shanghai Jiao Tong
University, China in 1998 and 2001, respectively. Prior to joining Purdue
Fort Wayne, she was a graduate research assistant in the Broadband and Wireless
Networking Laboratory at Georgia Institute of Technology.
Research Interests
Dr. Chen's
primary research interests are in the field of wireless networking, edge
computing, and network security. Specifically, she has worked on connecting and
monitoring Internet of Things (IoT) devices,
hardware/software co-design for on-device machine learning, routing and information dissemination
in different types of networked computer systems such as wireless opportunistic
networks, wireless sensor networks, and satellite networks, spectrum monitoring
in cognitive radio networks, and modeling and defending against internet
epidemics. Much of her work has been on improving the understanding, design,
and performance of networked computer systems, mainly through the application
of learning, estimation, optimization, modeling and performance evaluation. Dr.
Chen is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
Student Research Team
Publications (My publications at Google
Scholar)
Honors, Awards, and Grants
Teaching
Service
Please
check the ECE Degree
Programs for information on the Master
of Science in Engineering (MSE) program and the Five-year BS/MSE program.