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Tingjun Chen

Nortel Networks Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Current Appointments & Affiliations


Nortel Networks Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering · 2025 - Present Electrical and Computer Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering
Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering · 2021 - Present Electrical and Computer Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering
Assistant Professor of Computer Science · 2022 - Present Computer Science, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences

In the News


Published December 3, 2024
Research & Innovation Seed Grants Total Nearly $2 Million
Published February 2, 2024
Engineers Develop Hack to Make Cars Hallucinate
Published May 1, 2023
COSMOS comes to Duke and Durham

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Recent Publications


Disaggregated machine learning via in-physics computing at radio frequency.

Journal Article Science advances · January 2026 Modern edge devices, such as cameras, drones, and internet-of-things nodes, rely on machine learning to enable a wide range of intelligent applications. However, deploying machine learning models directly on the often resource-constrained edge devices dema ... Full text Cite

Scalable ML models and cascaded learning for efficient multi-span OSNR and GSNR prediction

Journal Article Journal of Optical Communications and Networking · January 1, 2026 Scalable and efficient methods for predicting optical transmission performance using machine learning (ML) and cascaded learning (CL) are investigated in metro multi-span optical networks. We extend the CL framework beyond multi-span power spectrum predict ... Full text Cite
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Recent Grants


CAREER: Toward Efficient and Scalable Mobile Fronthaul Empowered by Analog Radio-over-Fiber

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2025 - 2030

CIRC: ENS/Grand: COSMOS^3: Enhancing and Sustaining the COSMOS Platform

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey · 2025 - 2029

Machine Intelligence on Wireless Edge Networks (MIWEN)

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Army Research Office · 2025 - 2028

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Education, Training & Certifications


Columbia University · 2020 Ph.D.
Columbia University · 2018 M.S.
Tsinghua University (China) · 2014 B.S.