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Yawen (Wendy) Chen - Welcome!

Senior Lecturer

The University of New South Wales, UNSW Canberra

UNSW Email: wendy.chen1@unsw.edu.au

Previous Otago University email: yawen.chen@otago.ac.nz

I am currently a Senior Lecturer at the University of New South Wales in UNSW Canberra. I obtained my PhD degree in Computer Science from the University of Adelaide in Australia in 2008. From 2012 to 2023, I was working as a Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in School of Computing at Otago University in New Zealand. My research interests include computer networks/systems, parallel/distributed computing, artificial intelligence acceleration, photonic computing/communication, wired/wireless networking, graph theory etc. I have published extensively in leading journals and prestigious international conferences, such as IEEE Transactions on Computers, IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communication, ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, INFOCOM, IPDPS, ICPP, etc.

I received a Marsden Research Grant assessed by the Mathematical and Information Sciences panel from the Royal Society of New Zealand as the principal investigator in 2016, which is the most prestigious and competitive research fund in New Zealand (successful rate 10%). This project funding success was mentioned in the NZ News (No. 9).

I am co-leading the Computer System/Network Research Group collaborated with other staff at Australian National University and Otago University. My research interests include

AI Acceleration with Photonic Computing and Communication (AI accelerators, Optimization, Chiplet)

Resource Optimization in Computer Systems/Networks/Architectures

Parallel and Distributed Computing (IoT, parallel model, multicore computers)

Wired/Wireless Networks (Optical Network-on-Chips, Sensor Networks, Data Center Networks)

High Performance Computing (Optical Computing/ Communication, Green/Cloud Computing)

Energy-related Research (Energy-efficient Design/Energy Modeling)

Graph Theory and its Applications (Geometric Embedding)

Current Student Supervision

Name	Level of Study	Research Title / Representative publications	Supervision Type
Hao Zhang	PhD (2020-)	On-chip photonics on multicore systems Parallel Computing, ICPP 2023	Principal Supervisor
Chenpeng Xia	PhD (2021-)	Photonic computing and communication for neural network accelerators ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems	Principal Supervisor
Fei Gao	PhD (2022-)	Efficient neural network accelerators with optical computing The Journal of Supercomputing, Optical Switching and Networking	Principal Supervisor

Completed Student Supervision

Name	Level of Study	Representative publications	Supervision Type
Abbas Arghavani	PhD	IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems	Co-Supervisor
Wen Yang	PhD	IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems	Principal Supervisor
Feiyang Liu	PhD	IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing, INFOCOM	Co-Supervisor
Waqas Ahmad	PhD (2018-2023)	IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, ICC	Co-Supervisor
Fei Dai	PhD (2019-2023)	PPoPP 2023, ICC 2023, ICPP 2023	Principal Supervisor

NEWS at UNSW

[2024] I am looking for PhD students who has background in photonic computing/communication, computer networks/systems, parallel/distributed computing, artificial intelligence acceleration, wired/wireless networking etc. ***Scholarships of $37,684 (AUD)/per year are available for Ph.D. students ***
[2024] I joined School of Systems and Computing at The University of New South Wales, UNSW Canberra.

NEWS at Otago

[2023] Congratulations to Phd student Chengpeng on his paper accepted by ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS).
[2023] Congratulations to Phd students Travis and Hao on their papers accepted by The 52nd International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP), a prestigious A-rank conference, i.e. we got two papers accepted by ICPP at the same time!
[2023] Congratulations to former Phd student Wen Yang who got one piece of her PhD work accepted by IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems .
[2023] Invited as co-editor for a special issue of "Understanding Genetic Complexity Through Deep Neural Network Applications in Systems Biology Research” by Frontiers in Systems Biology.
[2023] Congratulations to Phd student Fei Dai (Travis) who submitted his Phd thesis, and got a faculty position Lecturer at EIT (one of New Zealand's top-rated institutes of technology).
[2023] Congratulations to Phd graduate Luming who got a researcher position in Tsinghua University, Top 1 university in China.
[2023] Congratulations to Phd student Travis who got his work accepted by ICC23 and PPoPP23.
[2023] Congratulations to Phd student Waqas who submitted his Phd thesis and got a permanent job in Dunedin City Council.
[2022] Congratulations to Phd student Waqas who got his paper accepted by IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.
[2021] Invited as Lead Guest Editor of the journal [Electronics] Special Issue: Advanced Applications of Sensor Network and Wireless Communication.
[2021.11] Invited as Lead Guest Editor of the journal [Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing] Special Issue: Intelligent defense in the ubiquitous network environment: 1models, technologies, and applications.
[2021] Congratulations to former Phd student Abbas who got another piece of his PhD work paper accepted by IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.
[2021] Congratulations to former visiting student Furong Fang, who got his piece of work accepted by IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.
[2019.02] Congratulations to Phd student Abbas who got one piece of his PhD work accepted by ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems.
[2019] Congratulations to Phd student Aleksei who got a job offer as Research Fellow in a leading research group in the area of MIMO at Lund University in Sweden.
[2017] Promotion to Senior Lecturer is granted. Effective from Feb.2018.
[2017] co-authored papers accepted by ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing, LCN 2017, Globcom 2017.
[2016] Got Marsden Fund as PI.
[2016] Serve as Web Chair of ITNAC 2016 and Workshop co-Chair of PICom 2016.
[2015.06.05] Group news: 1) Welcome Abbas Arghavani taking on board as a PhD student in System Research group! 2) Congratulations to Adeel on submitting his Phd thesis.

[2015.01.30] Attended ACSW 2015 conference and presented paper in Sydney.
[2014.11.27] Congratulations to Feiyang, who got his first Phd research paper accepted by INFOCOM 2015 (A+ ranking, acceptance rate 19%, received 2 reviewers' strong acceptances).

Systems Research Group Farewell to Xiaoxin and Welcome to Xuanzhang

[2014.10.1] Got UORG2015 Fund.
[2014.09.30] Jason submitted his Phd thesis and is employed as a postdoc researcher funded by UORG 2014.