Biao Chen

Biao Chen is a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Syracuse University. for "contributions to decentralized signal processing in sensor networks and interference management of wireless networks".

Early life and education Chen received B.E. and M.E. degrees in electrical engineering from Tsinghua University in 1992 and 1994, respectively. He got an M.S. in statistics and his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Connecticut.

Career After leaving Tsinghua University, Chen worked at AT&T in Beijing. He later did a postdoctoral fellowship at Cornell University. Chen has taught at Syracuse University since 2000, and has been the John E. and Patricia A. Breyer professor of electrical engineering since 2017. He has been area editor for the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing and associate editor for the IEEE Communications Letters, the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, and the EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking. He ran the 2024 Boston Marathon, 2025 Boston Marathon and 2026 Boston Marathon: