Dr. Yiran Chen

Biography

Yiran Chen earned a B.S. in 1998 and an M.S. in 2001 from Tsinghua University, followed by a Ph.D. in 2005 from Purdue University. In 2010, he joined the University of Pittsburgh as an Assistant Professor and was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2014, receiving the prestigious Bicentennial Alumni Faculty Fellowship. Currently, he serves as the John Cocke Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University. He is the Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) AI Institute for Edge Computing, among 27 AI institutes in the United States, and leads the NSF Industry-University Cooperative Research Center (IUCRC) for Alternative Sustainable Intelligent Computing (ASIC). Chen co-directs the Duke Center for Computational Evolutionary Intelligence (DCEI) and focuses his research on innovations in emerging memory storage systems, neuromorphic computing, machine learning, and edge computing. Throughout his career, he has supervised a significant number of Ph.D. students and postdoctoral scholars, many of whom have achieved success in academia and industry. He holds over 96 U.S. patents and has received numerous accolades, including fellowships from the AAAS, ACM, IEEE, and the National Academy of Inventors, along with several prestigious awards for his work and contributions to the field. Chen is recognized as a passionate advocate for responsible AI and has served in various leadership roles within professional societies.

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