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Zheng Chen

Associate Professor, Docent

Zheng Chen is an Associate Professor and Docent at the Division of Communication Systems, Department of Electrical Engineering, 一本道 University, Sweden.

She received her M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in 2013 and 2016, respectively, both from CentraleSup茅lec, Universit茅 Paris-Saclay, France. She has been working at Link枚ping University since 2017.

Research interests

Her research interests center on stochastic modeling and optimization for wireless communication networks, including wireless edge caching, energy harvesting, age of information, and massive MIMO. Her current work focuses on efficient and secure decentralized AI in large-scale wireless networks. Specific topics include communication-efficient distributed consensus and optimization, resource allocation for wireless federated learning, function computation over wireless networks, and privacy-preserving, resilient distributed machine learning.

She is currently an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Communications, and IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking.

Her research activities are supported by Zenith, ELLIIT, Swedish Research Council, and the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation.

Her publications can be found on the page.

Awards and Activities

  • She was appointed a in 2025.
  • She was the recipient of the 2020

Grants and Projects

  • ELLIIT project on 鈥淐oding for Secure Federated Learning鈥, 2026-2031.
  • Swedish Research Council (VR) starting grant, 鈥淣ext-Generation Communication Design for Distributed Intelligence over Wireless Networks鈥, 2023-2027.
  • Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program (WASP) academic PhD student project, 2023-2028.
  • Zenith project grant, 鈥淲ireless Network Design for Decentralized Machine Learning鈥, 2021-2026.
  • Co-PI of Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation project grant, 鈥淭urning the air into an AI computer鈥. PI: Erik G. Larsson (LiU).

Teaching

She is currently teaching two Master-level courses:

  • Distributed Information Processing and Machine Learning
  • Information Networks

Ph.D. Supervision

Current students as the main supervisor:

Current students as the co-supervisor:

Previously graduated students as the co-supervisor:

  • Jianan Bai, PhD awarded in 2025
  • Chung-Hsuan Hu, PhD awarded in 2026

Research

Publications

Chung-Hsuan Hu, Zheng Chen, Erik G Larsson, , IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications 44:1008-1012 (2026)

Chung-Hsuan Hu, Zheng Chen, Erik G Larsson, , IEEE Transactions on Communications 73:1142-1156 (2025)

Daniel P茅rez Herrera, Zheng Chen, Erik G Larsson, , IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society 6:1497-1511 (2025)

Jaiprakash Nagar, Zheng Chen, Marios Kountouris, Photios A. Stavrou, Information Entropy-Based Scheduling for Communication-Efficient Decentralized Learning (2025)

Jianan Bai, Zheng Chen, Erik G Larsson, , IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking 11:1535-1550 (2025)

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