Honors, Awards, and Grants

• "Designing and Implementing a Real-Time Water Body Monitoring System Using Machine Learning," Z. Chen (PI) and D. Chen (PI), Purdue University Fort Wayne IRSC Collaborative Research Grants, 2019 - 2020
• Z. Chen (faculty advisor), Jimmy Nguyen, "Machine Learning for a Real-Time Water Body Monitoring System," Purdue University Fort Wayne Undergraduate Summer Research Support Grant for 2019 Summer
• Z. Chen (PI), "Integration System for Amazon Customers," Purdue University Technical Assistance Program, 4/1/2019 - 5/31/2019
• Z. Chen (PI), "(IN-MaC) Data Warehouse and Business Analytics Tools for Amazon's Retailers," Indiana Next Generation Manufacturing Competitiveness Center (IN-MaC), 6/4/2018 - 11/30/2018
• Z. Chen (PI) and D. Chen (co-PI), "AI for Earth/Esri: A Real-TimeWater Body Monitoring System," AI for Earth Microsoft Azure Grant, 5/8/2018 - 5/5/2019
• Z. Chen (faculty advisor), C. Cook, E. Biazo, and A. Dills, "Water Kiosk," a senior design project won the CS Senior Design Project Competition, 2018
• IPFW IRSC Faculty Course Release Grant, 2018
• IPFW ETCS Excellence in Research Award, 2018
• IPFW Chapter Sigma Xi Researcher of the Year Award, 2018
• "Internet of Things in Space," Z. Chen (PI), Indiana Space Grant Consortium, 2017
• "Designing and Implementing a Smart Home Based on Internet of Things," Z. Chen (PI) and G. Wang (PI), IPFW IRSC Collaborative Research Grants, 2017
• IPFW IRSC Faculty Conference Travel Grant, 2017
• "IPFW and Harris Signal Processing Initiative," A. Eroglu (PI), G. Wang (co-PI), C. Chen (co-PI), and Z. Chen (co-PI), Harris, 2017
• Elected to the grade of Senior Member of IEEE, 2016
• "A Simulation Comparison of Epidemic Spread in Complex Networks," Z. Chen (faculty advisor), Kurtis Taylor, IPFW Undergraduate Summer Research Support Grant for 2016 Summer
• IEEE Standards Education Grant for the project "Redundant Failover Seamless-IP-Stack (RFSIS)," 2016
• Summer Faculty Grant from the Purdue Research Foundation (PRF), 2016
• IEEE Standards Education Grant for the project "Audio Reading Service Listener Web and Mobile Interface," 2015
• Outstanding Leadership Award in the HPCC 2009 conference, 2009
• Best Paper Award in the IPCCC 2008 conference, 2008
• Outstanding ECE Graduate Teaching Assistant Award, 2006
• Invited Articles for National Mathematics Awareness Month on Internet Security, 2006
• Colonel Oscar P. Cleaver Award (outstanding graduate students in ECE of Georgia Institute of Technology as determined by scores made on the doctoral preliminary examinations), 2003