Yiran Chen
Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Yiran Chen received B.S. (1998) and M.S. (2001) from Tsinghua University and Ph.D. (2005) from Purdue University. After five years in the industry, he joined the University of Pittsburgh in 2010 as Assistant Professor and was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2014, holding Bicentennial Alumni Faculty Fellow. He is now the John Cocke Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University and serving as the director of the NSF AI Institute for Edge Computing Leveraging the Next-generation Networks (Athena), the NSF Industry-University Cooperative Research Center (IUCRC) for Alternative Sustainable and Intelligent Computing (ASIC), and the co-director of Duke Center for Computational Evolutionary Intelligence (DCEI). His group focuses on the research of new memory and storage systems, machine learning and neuromorphic computing, and mobile computing systems. Dr. Chen has published 1 book and about 600 technical publications and has been granted 96 US patents. He has served as the associate editor of more than a dozen international academic periodicals and served on the technical and organization committees of about 70 international conferences. He is now serving as the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine. He received 9 best paper awards, 1 best poster award, and 15 best paper nominations from international conferences and workshops. He received numerous awards for his technical contributions and professional services such as the IEEE CASS Charles A. Desoer Technical Achievement Award, the IEEE Computer Society Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award, etc. He has been the distinguished lecturer of IEEE CEDA and CAS. He is a Fellow of the AAAS, ACM, and IEEE, and now serves as the chair of ACM SIGDA.

Current Research Interests

Emerging memory and storage technologies

Embedded systems, CPS, edge computing, and mobile applications

Neuromorphic computing, deep learning and system security

Low power circuit and system

Office Hours

Appointment only.

Current Appointments & Affiliations

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