Yan Chen

Yan Chen (Senior Member, IEEE) received the bachelor’s degree from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2004, the M.Phil. degree from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2007, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA, in 2011. He was a Founding Principal Technologist with Origin Wireless Inc. From September 2015 to February 2020, he was a Professor with the School of Information and Communication Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. He is currently the Vice Dean and a Professor with the School of Cyber Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China. His research interests include multimodal sensing and imaging, multimedia signal processing, and wireless multimedia. He is the coauthor of Reciprocity, Evolution, and Decision Games in Network and Data Science (Cambridge University Press, 2021) and Behavior and Evolutionary Dynamics in Crowd Networks: An Evolutionary Game Approach (Springer, 2020), and the coauthor of over 200 technical papers, including more than 100 IEEE journal articles. He was a recipient of multiple honors and awards, including an Excellent Editor for IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering in 2021, the Best Paper Award at the APSIPA ASC in 2020, the Best Student Paper Award at the PCM in 2017, the Best Student Paper Award at the IEEE ICASSP in 2016, and the Best Paper Award at the IEEE GLOBECOM in 2013. He is the Chair of APSIPA Signal and Information Processing Theory and Methods (SIPTM) Technical Committee, a Distinguished Lecturer of APSIPA, and the Secretary-General of the CES Young Scientist Network Multimedia Technical Committee. He is an Organizing Co-Chair of PCM 2017, the Special Session Co-Chair of APSIPA ASC 2017, the 10K Best Paper Award Committee Member of ICME 2017, the Multimedia Communications Symposium Lead Chair of WCSP 2019, an Area Chair of ACM Multimedia 2021, and the TPC Co-Chair of APSIPA ASC 2021. He is the Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering and IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks.