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Dr. Xiao Chen

  • Associate Professor - Computer Science

Education

Doctorate Degree

PhD in Computer Engineering

Florida Atlantic University, 1999

Master's Degree

MENG in Computer Science

Shanghai University, 1995

Bachelor's Degree

BENG in Computer Science

Shanghai University, 1992

  • Metsis, Vangelis (Principal), Guirguis, Mina (Co-Principal), Chen, Xiao (Supporting). Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Smart & Connected Communities, NSF, $379812. (Funded: May 15, 2019 - April 30, 2022). Grant.
  • Lu, Yijuan (Principal), Ngu, Anne H. (Co-Principal), Gao, Ju (Co-Principal), Chen, Xiao (Co-Principal), Qasem, Apan Muhammad (Co-Principal). II-NEW: Shared High Performance Data Center, NSF CISE CRI Program, Federal, $375756. (Funded: 2013 - 2019). Grant.
  • Yang, Kecheng (Principal), Ngu, Hee Hiong (Co-Principal), Chen, Xiao (Supporting), Islam, Tanzima Z (Supporting), Metsis, Vangelis (Supporting), Hou, Tao (Supporting), Rathore, Heena (Supporting), Wang, Lu (Supporting), Queiroz de Farias, Mylene Christine (Supporting), Qasem, Apan Muhammad (Supporting). REU Site: Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Edge Computing, National Science Foundation (NSF), Federal, $389995. (Submitted: August 2021, Funded: March 1, 2022 - February 28, 2026). Grant.
  • Chen, Xiao (Principal). Travel grant for attending the CRA-W career mentoring workshops, NSF and CRA, Federal. (Funded: 2016). Grant.
  • Chen, Xiao (Principal). NSF/IEEE-TCPP Curriculum Initiative on Parallel and Distributed Computing (G) Early Adopter Award, NSF, Federal, $2000. (Funded: 2015 - 2016). Grant.
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  • Chen, X. (2026). Diverse Embedding Graph Attention Networks for Personalized Federated Learning. In IEEE International Conference on High Performance and Smart Computing.
  • Chen, X. (2025). Fair and Quality-Aware Task Assignment in Crowdsensing Networks. In IEEE International Conference on Edge Computing and Scalable Cloud.
  • Chen, X. (2025). Multi-Objective Task Assignment in Crowdsourcing. In IEEE International Conference on High Performance and Smart Computing.
  • Chen, X. (2024). Optimization Algorithm Balancing Output and Fairness in Crowdsourcing. In IEEE Virtual Conference on Communications.
  • Rahman, M. M. M., Biswas, D., Chen, X., & Tesic, J. (2024). Image deduplication using efficient visual indexing and retrieval: optimizing storage, time and energy for deep neural network training. Signal, Image and Video Processing, 18(12), 9495–9503. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11760-024-03562-x
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  • Award / Honor Recipient: IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing Best Paper Award, IEEE Computer Society. August 1, 2019 - August 3, 2019
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Silver contribution award, IEEE International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications. February 17, 2020 - February 20, 2020
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Faculty development leave with one year payment. September 2013 - August 2014
  • Award / Honor Recipient: College of Science Runner-up for the Presidential Award for Excellence in Scholarly/Creative Activities. 2006
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Faculty development leave. August 2006 - December 2006
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  1. Participant

    providing qualifying exam questions

  2. Chair

    comprehensive examination committee

  3. Chair

    library committee

  4. Member

    personnel committee

  5. Board Member

    Chinese American Semiconductor Professional Association Austin Chapter

  6. Member

    graduate committee

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