Tianyi Chen

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Tianyi Chen

Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Office: Room 6036, Jonsson Engineering Center
Address: 110 8th Street, Troy, New York, 12180-3590
Tel: 518-276-3173
E-mail: chent18 [@] rpi.edu;  chentianyi19 [@] gmail.com (preferred)

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About me

Tianyi Chen has been with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) as an assistant professor since August 2019. In RPI, I am also an active member in the Rensselaer-IBM Artificial Intelligence Research Collaboration (AIRC). Prior to joining RPI, he received the doctoral degree from the University of Minnesota under the supervision of Prof. Georgios B. Giannakis.

Dr. Chen is the inaugural recipient of IEEE Signal Processing Society Best PhD Dissertation Award in 2020, a recipient of NSF CAREER Award in 2021 and a recipient of Amazon Research Award in 2022. He is also a co-author of the Best Student Paper Award at the NeurIPS Federated Learning Workshop in 2020 and at IEEE ICASSP in 2021.

Research interests: theoretical foundations of bilevel/multi-objective optimization and machine learning, with a focus on their applications to

  • Emerging learning problems: federated learning, meta-learning (now ICL), LLMs fine-tuning and alignment;

  • Emerging computing systems: analog in-memory computing, and NextG wireless systems.

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