Biography

Jinyuan Chen is an Associate Professor at Louisiana Tech University. Before joining Louisiana Tech, he was a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University from 2014 to 2016. He received the PhD degree from Telecom ParisTech in 2014, the M.Sc. degree from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications in 2010, and the B.Sc. degree from Tianjin University in 2007. His research interests include information theory, distributed consensus, blockchain, and machine learning.

Selected Honours

  • AT&T Endowed Professorship, 2022

  • Winner of the Presentation Contest in 2021 LAMDA Symposium, 2021

  • Louisiana Tech COES award, recognizing the contributions in research and economic impact, 2020

  • Louisiana Research Competitiveness (RCS) award, a CAREER award in Louisiana, 2018

  • Outstanding Graduate award, 2009

  • Tsang Hin Chi scholarship award, 2004 - 2007

  • Second Prize in the Chinese Chemistry Olympiad, Hainan Province, 2002

  • First Prize in the Chinese Physics Olympiad, Hainan Province, 2000

  • Rank First in entrance examination, Hainan Province, 2000