Xu, Chenren

Associate Professor with Tenure

Research Interests: Wireless Networking, Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing, Embedded System

Web: https://soar.group/chenren/

Email: chenren@pku.edu.cn| chenren.xu@gmail.com

Prof. Chenren Xu is a Boya Young Fellow Associate Professor (with early tenure) and Deputy Director of Institute of Intelligent Networked Computer System in the School of Computer Science at Peking University (PKU) where he directs Software-hardware Orchestrated ARchitecture (SOAR) Lab. His research interests span wireless, networking and system, with a current focus on backscatter communication for low power IoT connectivity, future mobile Internet for high mobility data networking, and collaborative edge intelligence system for mobile and IoT computing. He earned his Ph.D. from WINLAB, Rutgers University, and worked as postdoctoral fellow in Carnegie Mellon University and visiting scholars in AT&T Shannon Labs and Microsoft Research. He is the General Secretary of ACM SIGBED China, Executive Committee of ACM SIGMOBILE and ACM SIGBED, Associate Editor of ACM IMWUT and Communications of the CCF. He published papers and has been serving as organization committee and/or TPC in top venues including SIGCOMM, MobiCom, NSDI, SenSys and INFOCOM. He is a recipient of NSFC Excellent Young Scientists Fund (2020), ACM SIGCOMM China Rising Star (2020), Alibaba DAMO Academy Young Fellow (2018), CCF-Intel Young Faculty (2017) awards. His work has been featured in MIT Technology Review.