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), the JSPS Invitational Fellowship (2021), and the ECE Instructor Award (2023). He was an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (2014 - 2016), an Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking (2020 - 2021), and a Guest Editor of the Special Issue on Modern Compression for the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory (2022). He is currently serving as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory and an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Communications.
Teaching:
Fall 2023
Digital Communications Systems (EE 4TK4, McMaster)
Fall
2023 Information
Theory and Coding (ECE 723, McMaster)
Winter
2023 Communication
Systems (EE 3TR4, McMaster)
Fall 2022 Fundamentals of
Machine Learning (COE 4SL4, McMaster)
Fall 2020 Network Information
Theory (ECE 735, 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
Ph.D.
Yangyi Liu, Liangyan Li, Han Zhou
M.A.Sc. Ruibin Li, Zewei Zhang, Seyed Amirreza Mousavi, Yunzhe Li, Yuqiong Tian, Yan Min
Alumni: (list)
Recent
News:
July 2023: Yangyi Liu received a Global Experience Award.
June 2023: Our team received two Winner Awards in NTIRE 2023 HR NonHomogeneous Dehazing Challenge.
December 2022: Liangyan Li received a 3MT presentation prize.
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 Information-Constrained Optimal Transport (NSERC Alliance International Catalyst Quantum Grant)
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)