Yan Chen

1
Yan Chen ??

• Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical
  Engineering and Computer Science, Northwestern
  University

• Education
• Univ. of California at Berkeley, Ph.D. of
  Computer Science, 2003
• State Univ. of New York at Stony Brook, M.S. of
  Computer Science, 1998
• Zhejiang University, Honored B.E. of Computer
  Engineering, 1995

2
Northwestern Lab for Internet and Security
Technology (LIST)

• Research Interests
• Computer networks and large-scale distributed
  system, in particular, for measurement,
  management and security
• Wireless and ad hoc networks
• Still pretty large technical gap between China
  and US
• Sponsors
• Department of Energy (Early CAREER Award)
• Microsoft Research
• Motorola Inc.

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Collaboration with China

• Experience
• Prof. Xin Li (??), Department of Electrical
  Engineering, Tsinghua Univ. on Internet
  Measurement
• Prof. Bo Li (??) of Hongkong Univ. of Science
  and Technology (HKUST) and Dr. Qian Zhang (??) of
  Microsoft Research Asia (now also at HKUST), on
  wireless and ad hoc networks.

• Enabling more collaborations
• Summer visit program/opportunities (provide help
  on housing, etc.)
• Matching funds for outstanding scholars in China
  to visit and do research in US (like the model of
  Korean Research Foundation)