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Tingjun Chen

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

Research Interests


Wireless networking, next-generation wireless and optical networks, edge cloud and computing, Internet-of-Things (IoT), mobile and embedded systems, platforms and testbeds

Selected 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

Center for Ubiquitous Connectivity (CUbiC)

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Columbia University · 2023 - 2027

CC* Integration-Large: Scaling Scientific Workloads on Distributed Commodity GPUs and Storage through Campus-level RDMA Networking

ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2025 - 2027

AI Institute: Athena: AI-Driven Next-generation Networks at the Edge

ResearchSenior Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2021 - 2027

EAGER: An Integrated Fiber Sensing and Communication Living Lab in the Research Triangle

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2023 - 2026

Collaborative Research: CNS Core: Medium: Softwarizing Millimeter-wave Radio Access Networks (RANs) at the Edge

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2022 - 2026

Open Optical Transport System for Data Center Applications

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by NEC Laboratories America, Inc. · 2025 - 2025

Newberry DAS Interrogator and PFI Nodal Seismic Sensor Deployment

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Enegis, LLC · 2025 - 2025

Machine Learning Technology for Resilient Optical Network

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) · 2025 - 2025

Autonomous WDM Optical Link Control

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation · 2024 - 2024

Joint Experiment Agreement On Autonomous WDM optical link control

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation · 2023 - 2023

Facilitating Open-Access Millimeter-wave and Massive MIMO Research in the COSMOS and ORBIT Testbeds

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Association for Computing Machinery · 2021 - 2023

External Relationships


  • Etronium AI, Inc.
  • WiLO Networks Inc.

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