Dong Chen

Dong Chen
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science

About

I am a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Colorado School of Mines (Ranking facts are here). 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 Data-driven Cyber-Physical Systems (D2CPS) Laboratory, which focuses on designing data-driven computer systems with an emphasis on improving Cybersecurity, User Privacy and Sustainability  of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) and the Internet of Things (IoT). 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 member of ACM and IEEE. I also worked as Unix Software Engineer in industry for two years.

I am always interested in doing research with self-motivated graduate and undergraduate students and postdocs. If you are interesting in building data-driven CPS/IoT security and privacy improving systems, please feel free to contact me!

I will be teaching a new course – IoT Security and Privacy in Fall’23!

EDUCATION

  • Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering , University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2018
  • Ph.D. in Computer Science, Northeastern University, China, 2014

Research Interests

My research aims to build data-driven experimental computer systems to improve Cybersecurity, User Privacy, and Sustainability of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) and the Internet of Things (IoT).

  • My work has also been spanning multiple technical fields, including 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 246L
Colorado School of Mines
Golden, CO 80401
303-384-2765
dongchen@mines.edu
Office Hours:
Email for Appointment 

CS Outreach:

CS@Mines OnTour
DECtech
C-START
Cyber-REACH
CS Intern
High School CS/Cyber Advisory Board