Jun Chen
Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McMaster University
1280 Main Street West, ITB A221
Hamilton, ON L8S 4K1
Canada
Email: chenjun at mcmaster
dot ca
Phone: (905) 525-9140 Ext. 20163
Fax: (905) 521-2922
Biography:
Jun Chen received the B.S. degree in Electronic Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2001, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Cornell University in 2004 and 2006, respectively. He was a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Coordinated Science Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from September 2005 to July 2006, and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center from July 2006 to August 2007. Since September 2007 he has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at McMaster University, where he is currently a Professor. He held the title of the Barber-Gennum Chair in Information Technology from 2008 to 2013 and the Joseph Ip Distinguished Engineering Fellow from 2016 to 2018. He was a recipient of the Josef Raviv Memorial Postdoctoral Fellowship (2006), the Early Researcher Award from the Province of Ontario (2010), the IBM Faculty Award (2010), the ICC Best Paper Award (2020), and the JSPS Invitational Fellowship (2021). He served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory from 2014 to 2016 and is currently an Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking.
Teaching:
Fall 2020 Network Information
Theory (ECE 735, McMaster)
Fall 2020
Digital Communications Systems (EE 4TK4, McMaster)
Fall 2020 Signals and Systems
(EE 3TP3 McMaster)
Winter 2020 Digital Communications II (EE 4TM4, McMaster)
Fall 2018 Probability and
Random Processes (EE 3TQ3, McMaster)
Winter 2018 Circuits and Systems (EE
2CJ4, McMaster)
Winter 2013 Advanced
Engineering Mathematics (ECE 704, McMaster)
Fall 2009
Fundamentals of Wireless
Communications (ECE 738, McMaster)
Fall 2009
Digital Communication Systems
(EE 4TK4, McMaster)
Fall
2008 Mathematics for Linear Systems (EE 3CK3, McMaster)
Spring 2005 Multiuser Information Theory and Wireless Communications (ECE 795, Cornell)
Students:
Postdoc Qiqi Wang
Ph.D.
Xiaohong Liu, Huan Liu, Siyao Zhou, Kangdi Shi, Zhihao Shi,
Jingjing Qian, Hafez Musavi, Yangyi Liu
M.A.Sc. Linhui Dai, Yanning Li, Zijun Wu, Haoyue Zheng, Yankun Yu, Minghan Fu, Wei Hao, Xiang Song, Zikai Dou, Yuanhang Zhang, Chenqi Li
Alumni: (list)
Recent
News:
August 2020: Our team received a Runner-Up Award in AIM 2020 Challenge on Learned ISP Track 2: Perceptual.
June 2020: Our team ranked in 3rd place in NTIRE 2020 Challenge on Demoireing Track 2: Burst.
May 2020: Xiaohong Liu received a Borealis AI Global Fellowship Award.
April
2020: Xiaohong Liu received an
Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship-Doctoral from
NSERC.
Old News: (list)
Research
Interests:
Information
and Coding Theory Machine Learning Natural Language
Processing Wireless
Communications Multimedia Communications
Signal and Image Processing Data Compression and Storage Networking Optimization
Projects:
Quantum
Extremal Inequalities with Applications (The Margaret Ellen & Kon Max Wong
Quantum Technology Research Fund)
Computer
Vision and Deep Learning for Moderating Visual Content (Mitacs
Accelerate Grant)
Achieving the Performance Limit
of Noncausal Lossy
Compression with the Predictive Coding Architecture (Google Chrome University
Research Program)
Learning-Oriented Data Compression with Applications (NSERC Discovery Grant)
Past
Projects: (list)
Publications:
Patents and Standards Contributions
Professional Activities:
Chair: Joint Chapter of Communications, Information Theory, and Signal Processing Societies - Hamilton Section
Co-chair: Information and Coding Theory Symposium, CHINACOM'08.
TPC Co-chair: Canadian Workshop on Information Theory (CWIT) 2019 (Workshop Webpage).
Organizer: Workshop on Information Theory and Wireless Communications (Technical Program).
Organizer: Bergerfest (Workshop Webpage)