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Zheng Chen

Associate Professor

Zheng Chen is an Associate Professor at the Division of Communication Systems, Department of Electrical Engineering, Linköping University, Sweden.

She received her B.Sc. degree in Optoelectronics from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), China, in 2011. Then she received the M.Sc. degree in 2013 and Ph.D. degree in 2016, both from CentraleSupélec, Université Paris-Saclay, France. She has been working at Linköping University since 2017.

Research interests

Her research interests span over a wide range of areas, including stochastic geometry and its applications, distributed machine learning over wireless networks, and information dissemination over complex networks.

Her publications can be found on the Google Scholar page.

Awards and Activities

• She was the recipient of the 2020 IEEE Communications Society Young Author Best Paper Award
• She is currently an Associate Editor at IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Communications, and IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking

Grants and Projects

• Swedish Research Council (VR) starting grant for research on “Next-Generation Communication Design for Distributed Intelligence over Wireless Networks”, 2023-2027.
Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program (WASP) academic PhD student project on “Decentralized Machine Learning over Large-Scale Wireless Device-to-Device Networks”, 2023-2028.
• Zenith project grant for research on “Wireless Network Design for Decentralized Machine Learning”, since 2021.
• Knut and Alice Wallenberg research grant for the project “Turning the air into an AI computer”. The project is led by Erik G. Larsson (LiU).

Teaching

She is currently teaching two Master-level courses as course director and examiner:

TSKS01 Digital Communication
TSIN01 Information Networks

Ph.D. Supervision

She is the main supervisor of:

Adrian Edin
David Nordlund
• Yuhang Deng

and co-supervisor of the following Ph.D. students at the Division of Communication Systems:

Chung-Hsuan Hu
Jianan Bai
Daniel Pérez Herrera
Martin Dahl

Research

Publications

2023

Zheng Chen, Erik G Larsson, Carlo Fischione, Mikael Johansson, Yura Malitsky (2023) Over-the-Air Computation for Distributed Systems: Something Old and Something New IEEE Network, Vol. 37, p. 240-246 Continue to DOI
Chung-Hsuan Hu, Zheng Chen, Erik G Larsson (2023) Scheduling and Aggregation Design for Asynchronous Federated Learning Over Wireless Networks IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 41, p. 874-886 Continue to DOI
Zheng Chen, Yurii Malitskyi (2023) Over-the-Air Computation With Multiple Receivers: A Space-Time Approach IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, Vol. 12, p. 1399-1403 Continue to DOI
Chung-Hsuan Hu, Zheng Chen, Erik G Larsson (2023) DYNAMIC SCHEDULING FOR FEDERATED EDGE LEARNING WITH STREAMING DATA 2023 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ACOUSTICS, SPEECH, AND SIGNAL PROCESSING WORKSHOPS, ICASSPW, Article 6831 Continue to DOI
Daniel Pérez Herrera, Zheng Chen, Erik G Larsson (2023) Distributed Consensus in Wireless Networks With Probabilistic Broadcast Scheduling IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Vol. 30, p. 41-45 Continue to DOI

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