Biography
Chen is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Computer Science at Nottingham Trent University since 2025. Between 2022 to 2025, he was a postdoctoral researcher with the System Research Group advised by Prof. Richard Mortier, Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge. Chen is also a Senior Member at St Edmunds College.
Prior to that, Chen received his PhD in Computer Science from Loughborough Univeristy (LU). Chen received his BEng from Xidian University, Xi’an, China.
His research interests are broadly in areas of Serverless Computing, Cloud/Edge Computing, Network Resource Orchestration, In-network Computing, Distributed System and IoTs. His latest work focuses on resource orchestration in serverless edge computing, aiming to optimize the overall performance for the system, including latency, energy consumption and system cost. Chen has extensive experience collaborating with industries such as Siemens, Infineon, EMS-UK, National Physical Lab and many others. Chen’s research is mostly funded by UKRI and EU Horizon.
Also, Chen is actively serving as a TPC member and reviewer for many conferences and journals such as ICDCS 2024, IFIP NPC 2024, IEEE MSN 2023, IEEE TSC, Computer Networks, JNCA and etc.
Chen also holds an Associate Fellowship of Higher Education Academy.
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Research Interest
- LLM Scheduling
- Serverless computing
- Edge AI
- Systems for AI
- Edge computing
- Resource orchestration
- Distributed computing
Potential PhD application
I am accepting motivated and talented PhD applications, topics include but not limited to system for LLM, Edge AI. Please email me your CV and transcripts.
News
2026 April I’m giving a talk at tenth Annual [UK System Research Workshop] (https://uksystems.org/workshop/2026/)!
2026 April Three papers accepted at IEEE ISCC 2026!
2026 Jan New paper published in Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems 2026.
2026 Jan Design and implementation of a platform for stateful agents at the edge published by Pervasive and Mobile Computing!
2025 I’m actively recruiting PhD students, drop me an email if interested.
2025 Sep Invited to serve as TPC for IEEE CCNC 2026!
2025 Aug Invited to serve as TPC for IFIP NPC 2025!
2025 April A Learning Probabilistic Boolean Network Model of a Manufacturing Process with Applications in System Asset Maintenance published by MDPI Entropy.
2025 April Two papers accepted by IEEE ISCC 2025!
2025 April A short paper accepted by IEEE ICDCS 2025!
2025 Jan New paper “Cost Optimization for Serverless Edge Computing with Budget Constraints using Deep Reinforcement Learning” has been accepted by ICC 2025.
Contact Info
Mary Ann Evans Building, Department of Computer Science, Clifton Campus, College Dr, Clifton, Nottingham NG11 8NS
Email: chen.chen04 (at) ntu.ac.uk