Dr. Chao Chen's Research Team
Project: Efficient and Secure Speaker Verification on IoT Devices
Sponsored by: PFW ETCS Faculty Research Seed Grant:
Fostering Innovation and Collaboration
Presentation:
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“Efficient Speech Recognition on IoT Devices,” poster presentation at the
28th PFW Annual Student Research and Creative Endeavor
Symposium (March 2025)
Thesis: “Privacy-Preserving Medical Data Classification using
Homomorphic Encryption”
Presentation:
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“Enhancing Privacy in Medical Data Classification with
Homomorphic Encryption,” poster presentation at the 28th PFW Annual
Student Research and Creative Endeavor Symposium (March 2025)
Thesis: “Understanding Empathetic Responses: Are Mental Health
Chatbots Truly Supportive?”
Presentation:
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“Perceived Empathy in AI: Investigating Human Values in
Mental Health Chatbot,” poster presentation at the 28th PFW Annual
Student Research and Creative Endeavor Symposium (March 2025)
Thesis: “Hardware/Software Co-Design for Keyword Spotting on Edge Devices,” April 2023. [link]
Sponsored by: PFW Office of Graduate
Studies Graduate Research Assistantship and Google Cloud Research Credits
Program
Publication and presentation:
o
J.
Bushur and C. Chen, "Neural Network Exploration
for Keyword Spotting on Edge Devices," Future Internet, vol. 15, no. 6: 219, 2023. [link]
o
Jacob Bushur’s poster presentation
“Hardware/Software Co-Design for Keyword
Spotting on Edge Devices” at the 26th PFW Annual Student Research and
Creative Endeavor Symposium (April 2023) won the Dean’s Choice Award, placed 1st
in the Graduate category, and won the PFW
Sigma Xi Graduate Student Research Award.
Thesis: “Impact of Noise
and Nonlinearity on Analog Self-Interference Cancellation in In-Band
Full-Duplex Communications,” December 2021. [link]
Sponsored by: PFW
2021 Post COVID JumpStart Tenured Faculty Grant
Publications:
o
J.
Shilling and C. Chen, "Evaluating Analog
Self-Interference Cancellation for In-Band Full-Duplex Wireless
Communication," Journal of Communications, vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 256-266,
April 2023. [link]
o J. Shilling and C. Chen, "Impact of Noise and Nonlinearity on Analog Self-Interference Cancellation in In-Band Full-Duplex Communications," in Proceedings of 11th International Conference on Communications, Circuits and Systems (ICCCAS 2022), pp. 75-82, May 13-15, 2022, Singapore. [link] (awarded Excellent Oral Presentation of the ICCCAS 2022 virtual conference)
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Project:
Advanced
Embedded Systems for Autonomous Robot Car (ECE 49600: Computer
Engineering Projects – Honors course, Spring 2025, sponsored by Honors
Research and Creative Endeavors Scholarship for both Saideep Kotasthane and
Sankalp Sinha)
This
project develops an autonomous robot car with precise navigation and control
capabilities. This is achieved through the integration of multiple sensor
inputs, custom control algorithms, sensor fusion techniques, voice command
recognition, and basic object recognition.
Presentation:
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“CARSS – Controlled Autonomous Robot by Saideep and
Sankalp,”
poster presentation at the 28th PFW Annual Student
Research and Creative Endeavor Symposium (March 2025)
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Project:
Exploring
the Scalability of Distributed Computing Network (Chapman Scholar Senior Capstone Project,
2021-2022)
There
are two main goals for this project: First, explore the power of distributed
computing networks in computationally intensive problems. Second, create a
distributed computing network through HTCondor using
the computer labs in the ETCS building. This network is also configured with
BOINC allowing it to contribute to the World Community Grid.
Publication and Presentation:
o
J.
Bushur and C. Chen, “Exploiting Raspberry Pi Clusters and Campus Lab Computers
for Distributed Computing,” International Journal
of Computer Science and Information Technology, vol. 14, no. 3, pp.
41-54, June 2022. [link]
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Jacob Bushur’s poster presentation
“Exploring the Scalability of Distributed
Computing Networks” at the 25th PFW Annual Student Research and
Creative Endeavor Symposium (April 2022) placed 3rd in the Undergraduate category.
· Project: Guardian IoT Monitoring System (Sponsored by Purdue
University Technical Assistant Program Small Business Innovation Voucher
Program, 2021)
In
this project, we worked with Guardian Machine Protection, LLC, to design,
implement, and test a hardware and software prototype of the Guardian Internet
of Things (IoT) remote machine monitoring system, with the goal of achieving
streamlined data sampling, display and analysis.
(Read
a summary of the project in the Office
of Sponsored Programs 2020-2021 Annual Report)