{"id":19,"date":"2021-02-23T11:29:12","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T11:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soar.group\/chenren\/?page_id=19"},"modified":"2025-11-09T10:39:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T10:39:09","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/soar.group\/chenren\/about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Short Bio<\/span><\/h3>\nProf. Chenren Xu is an Endowed Boya Young Fellow Associate Professor (with early tenure), Assitant Dean and Deputy Director of Institute of Networking and Energy-efficient Computing in the School of Computer Science at Peking University (PKU). He directs PKU Software-hardware Orchestrated ARchitecture (SOAR) Lab and enjoys inventing future mobile and embodied AI technologies spaning across wireless sensing and networked system with his students to bring digital intelligence to transportation, logistics, manufacturing and health domains for better efficiency and user experience. He earned his Ph.D. from WINLAB, Rutgers University, and worked as postdoctoral fellow of Carnegie Mellon University, guest professor of Keio University and visiting scholars in AT&T Shannon Labs and Microsoft Research. He serves as an Editor of ACM IMWUT, General Chair of UbiComp\u201926 and MobiSys\u201925, TPC Chair of UbiComp\u201925 and HotMobile\u201924 and General Secretary of ACM SIGBED China. He is a recipient of MobiSys\u201925 Best Paper Award, CCF Technological Invention First Class Award (2025), Okawa Foundation Research Grant (2024), ACM SIGCOMM China Rising Star (2020), Alibaba DAMO Academy Young Fellow (2018) and CCF-Intel Young Faculy Award (2017). His work has been featured in MIT Technology Review.\n<\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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Research Interest<\/span><\/h3>\r\nLow Power IoT Connectivity [MobiCom'17][SPM'18][MobiCom'20][SIGCOMM'20a][SIGCOMM'20b][SenSys'20][MobiCom'21][NSDI'23]<\/span>
\r\n\r\nHigh Mobility Data Networking [MobiCom'19a][ICDCS'19][APNet'19][JSAC'20][SIGMETRICS'22][NSDI'23]<\/span>
\r\n\r\nMobile Edge Computing [UbiComp'14][HotNets'15][INFOCOM'18][MobiCom'19b][INFOCOM'20][TMC'20][MobiCom'22]<\/span>
\r\n\r\nHuman-centric Sensing [IPSN'12][IPSN'13][UbiComp'13][UbiComp'16][TMC'16a][SenSys'17][IPSN'20][UbiComp'21][UbiComp'22]<\/span>
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Selected Honors<\/span><\/h3>\r\n\r\n CCF Technological Invention Award First Class (1\/6), 2025<\/span>
\r\n\r\n ACM MobiSys Best Paper Award, 2025<\/span>
\r\n\r\n Okawa Research Grant, 2024<\/span>
\r\n\r\n CCF Transactions on Pervasive Computing and Interaction Best Paper Award, 2022<\/span>
\r\n\r\nCIE Outstanding Scientific and Technological Worker (\u4e2d\u56fd\u7535\u5b50\u5b66\u4f1a\u4f18\u79c0\u79d1\u6280\u5de5\u4f5c\u8005), 2021<\/span>
\r\n\r\nBeijing Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis Supervisor (\u5317\u4eac\u5e02\u4f18\u79c0\u672c\u79d1\u6bd5\u4e1a\u8bba\u6587\u6307\u5bfc\u6559\u5e08), 2020<\/span>
\r\n\r\nPKU Computer Science Faculty Research Award (\u5317\u4eac\u5927\u5b66\u8ba1\u7b97\u673a\u7cfb\u79d1\u7814\u5de5\u4f5c\u5148\u8fdb\u4e2a\u4eba), 2020<\/span>
\r\n\r\nPKU Computer Science Faculty Service Award (\u5317\u4eac\u5927\u5b66\u8ba1\u7b97\u673a\u7cfb\u670d\u52a1\u5de5\u4f5c\u5148\u8fdb\u4e2a\u4eba), 2020<\/span>
\r\n\r\nNSFC Excellent Young Scientists Fund (\u56fd\u5bb6\u81ea\u7136\u79d1\u5b66\u57fa\u91d1\u4f18\u79c0\u9752\u5e74\u79d1\u5b66\u57fa\u91d1), 2020<\/span>
\r\n\r\nACM SIGCOMM China Rising Star Award, 2020<\/span>
\r\n\r\nMIT Technology Review 35 Innovators Under 35 Competition Finalist, 2020<\/span>
\r\n\r\nMSRA Collaborative Research Grant Award, 2020<\/span>
\r\n\r\nACM MobiCom Student Research Competition Gold Medal (Advisor), 2019<\/span>
\r\n\r\nAppreciation by ACM MobiSys, 2019<\/span>
\r\n\r\nBaosteel Excellence in Teaching Award (\u5b9d\u94a2\u4f18\u79c0\u6559\u5e08\u5956), 2018<\/span>
\r\n\r\nACM SenSys Best Demo Award, 2018<\/span>
\r\n\r\nAlibaba DAMO Academy Young Fellow, 2018<\/span>
\r\n\r\nMicrosoft Research Asia StarTrack Visiting Young Faculty, 2018<\/span>
\r\n\r\nCCF-Intel Young Faculty Award, 2017<\/span>
\r\n\r\nACM MobiCom Student Research Competition Silver\/Bronze Medal (Advisor), 2017<\/span>
\r\n\r\nRutgers ECE Graduate Program Academic Achievement Award, 2015<\/span>
\r\n\r\nSamsung Best Paper Award Gold Medal, 2014<\/span>
\r\n\r\nACM UbiComp Best Paper Nominee, 2014<\/span>
\r\n\r\nACM SenSys Best Poster Award, 2011<\/span>
\r\n\r\nShanghai Outstanding Graduate Award (\u4e0a\u6d77\u5e02\u4f18\u79c0\u6bd5\u4e1a\u751f), 2008<\/span>
\r\n\r\nNational Undergraduate Electronic Design Contest Shanghai Divison First Prize, 2007<\/span>
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<\/span>Talks<\/span><\/h3>\r\n\r\nPassive Communication and Localization System<\/span>
\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u2022\u00a0 APSARA (\u4e91\u6816\u5927\u4f1a)'21 Alibaba Cloud Predictable Network Workshop, Hangzhou, China, October, 2021<\/span>
\r\n\r\nTowards Ubiquitous and Efficient High Mobility Data Networking: from Retro-reflective Roadway to High-speed Railway<\/span>
\r\n\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u2022\u00a0 Keynote at UbiComp'20 CPD Workshop, Cancun (Virtual), Mexico, September, 2020<\/span>
\r\n\r\nAcademic Social: A Retrospective Reflection on Unintentional Networking<\/span>
\r\n\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u2022\u00a0 Keynote at SenSys'20 Ph.D. Forum, Yokohama (Virtual), Japan, November, 2020<\/span>
\r\n\r\nThe Cases of Visible Light Backscatter Communication for Battery-free IoT and V2X Applications<\/span>
\r\n\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u2022\u00a0 Keynote at Embedded AI Summit, Shenzhen, China, December, 2019<\/span>
\r\n\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u2022\u00a0 Keynote at Rising Star Forum of ACM Turing Celebration Conference - China, Chengdu, China, May, 2019<\/span>
\r\n\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u2022\u00a0 MIT CSAIL Seminar, Cambridge, MA, USA, March, 2019<\/span>
\r\n\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u2022\u00a0 The Forum of Turing Centers, Shanghai, China, December, 2018<\/span>
\r\n\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u2022\u00a0 Future Internet Summit, Seoul, Korea, November, 2018<\/span>
\r\n\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u2022\u00a0 Annual PKU-UCLA JRI Symposium, Los Angles, CA, USA, October, 2018<\/span>
\r\n\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u2022\u00a0 Tsinghua-ROHM International Forum of Industry-Academia, Beijing, China, May, 2017<\/span>
\r\n\r\nThe Rise of Augmented Intelligence in Edge Networks<\/span>
\r\n\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u2022\u00a0 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of Rice University, Houston, TX, USA, August, 2018<\/span>
\r\n\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u2022\u00a0 Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar of University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, October, 2017<\/span>
\r\n\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u2022\u00a0 Cyber Physical Systems Group of Oxford University, Oxford, UK, October, 2017<\/span>
\r\n\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u2022\u00a0 Connected Mobility Research Group of Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany, October, 2017<\/span>
\r\n\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u2022\u00a0 Microsoft Research Asia StarTrack Forum, Beijing, China, September, 2017<\/span>
\r\n\r\nLearning Human Context through Unobtrusive Methods<\/span>
\r\n\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u2022\u00a0 Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), Palo Alto, CA, USA, April, 2014<\/span>
\r\n\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u2022\u00a0 FX Palo Alto Laboratory (FXPAL), Palo Alto, CA, USA, March, 2014<\/span>
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Open Source Contribution<\/span><\/h3>\r\nVisible Light Backscatter Network Simulator<\/a><\/span>
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