Dong Chen

Dong Chen
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science

About

I am a tenure-track Assistant Professor in CS department. 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. Full CV can be found here.

* RA positions available for graduate and undergraduate students. If you are interested in building data-driven CPS/IoT systems, please feel free to contact me.

 

Research Interests

My research aims to build data-driven experimental computer systems to improve user/system security and privacy, system sustainability, and system efficiency of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) and the Internet of Things (IoT).

  • 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

CS Outreach: