Tingjun Chen
Nortel Networks Assistant Professor at Duke University
Durham, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTingjun Chen is an assistant professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University with a secondary appointment in Computer Science, leading the FuNCtions Lab on next-generation wireless, optical, mobile, and quantum networks as well as edge computing systems. He blends theoretical and hands-on experimental work—building large-scale testbeds, low-power sensor hardware, and convergent spectrum-sharing systems—and co-founded WiLO Networks to productize energy-efficient IoT solutions. His work spans massive MIMO, millimeter-wave, optical/quantum networking, and AI-enabled edge-cloud integration, earning multiple industry and academic awards including Google and IBM research honors and top papers at OFC and ECOC. A Columbia Ph.D. and former Yale postdoc, he is notable for translating circuit- and PHY-level advances into system-scale deployments and commercially funded SBIR projects.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Electrical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Electrical Engineering at Columbia UniversityBachelor's Degree Electronic Engineering, Bachelor's Degree Electronic Engineering at Tsinghua University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (19)
duplex10
ieee10
full-duplex10
connectivity9
802-119
testbed9
wifi9
orbit9
open-access9
wireless8
5g7
gnuradio7
communications5
infiniband5
uhd3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
functions-lab/functions-lab.github.io
Dec 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:50 pushes in 2 months
Wimnet/flexicon_orbit
Oct 2017 - May 2019
Open-Access Full-Duplex Wireless in the ORBIT Testbed
Contributions:58 commits, 23 pushes in 1 year 7 months
connectivity5gopen-accessfull-duplexorbit
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