Dong Chen is a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science, Colorado School of Mines (Mines). He received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst) in 2018, and Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2014 from Northeastern University, China. His research lies at the intersection of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), the Internet of Things (IoT), AI@Edge, Distributed Machine Learning, and Security and User privacy. He directs Cyber-Physical Systems Laboratory (CPSLab) at Mines, where he conducts experimental CPS system research with a focus on improving Cybersecurity, User Privacy and Sustainability of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) and the Internet of Things (IoT) at different system scales. His research has been published in top-tier CPS/IoT conferences and journals, including IPSN, BuildSys, ICDCS, PerCom, IoTDI, CNS, BigData, SECON, MASS, ICCCN, etc. He is the recipient of the Best Paper Award at ACM BuildSys’20. Specially, on his recent CPS/IoT privacy systems research, he received the NSF CAREER Award from the Computer Systems Research (CSR) program in the Division of Computer and Network Systems in 2023. He also has served as the organizing committee and technical program committee member for multiple ACM/IEEE CPS/IoT leading conferences and the organizing chair for two IEEE CPS workshops. His recent research has been supported by NSF CSR Program, NSA, Cyber Florida Seed Program, NSF RET Program, Google Education, NOAA, and NEXUS Seed Grants.
