Dong Chen

Dong Chen
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science

About

I am a tenure-track Assistant Professor in CS @Mines. I received my Ph.D. from University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst) in 2018 under the supervision of Professor David Irwin.  At Mines, I lead the Cyber-Physical Systems Laboratory (CPSLab), which focuses on building data-driven, open-sourced, experimental computer systems at different scales to address important problems in CPS/IoT systems.

I have conducted pioneering research in many areas, including user/system security and privacy, system sustainability, and system efficiency in the applications of smart/edge devices, smart homes, smart buildings, smart data centers, and smart grids. On my recent CPS/IoT privacy systems research, I received the NSF CAREER Award from the Computer Systems Research (CSR) program in the Division of Computer and Network Systems in 2023. I am a full member of Sigma Xi, and a member of ACM, AAAI and IEEE. I also worked as Unix Software Engineer in industry for two years. 

 

Research Interests

My research is in the intersection of computer systems and other areas such as AI, data management, security and privacy, and sustainability.

  • My work has also been spanning multiple technical fields, including AI Sustainability, AI Security, AI@Edge, Tiny Machine Learning, Federated/Split Learning, and Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning.

  • Recently, I have been looking into  research problems spanning different scales, from the IoT and Edge Computing devices ⇨ smart homes/buildings ⇨ renewable energy systems ⇨ smart grids ⇨ smart cities.

  • My research has been applied into multiple CPS/IoT application domains, including Smart and Connected Communities, Maritime Transportation System, Underwater Cyberinfrastructure, and Personal Home Health Monitoring.

  • I open-source all the systems (including their evaluation datasets) I build.

Contact

Office:  CTLM 214D
Colorado School of Mines
Golden, CO 80401
303-384-2765
dongchen523@gmail.com
Office Hours:

Tu: 3-4 pm or Email.
CPSLab

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