Yiran Chen

Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Yiran Chen received B.S and M.S. from Tsinghua University and Ph.D. from Purdue University in 2005. After five years in industry, he joined University of Pittsburgh in 2010 as Assistant Professor and then promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2014, held Bicentennial Alumni Faculty Fellow. He now is a tenured Associate Professor of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University and serving as the director of NSF Industry–University Cooperative Research Center (IUCRC) for Alternative Sustainable and Intelligent Computing (ASIC) and co-director of Duke Center for Evolutionary Intelligence (CEI), focusing on the research of new memory and storage systems, machine learning and neuromorphic computing, and mobile computing systems. Dr. Chen has published one book and more than 350 technical publications and has been granted 93 US patents. He serves or served the associate editor of several IEEE and ACM transactions/journals and served on the technical and organization committees of more than 50 international conferences. He received 6 best paper awards and 12 best paper nominations from international conferences. He is the recipient of NSF CAREER award and ACM SIGDA outstanding new faculty award. He is the Fellow of IEEE and Distinguished Member of ACM, a distinguished lecturer of IEEE CEDA, and the recipient of the Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers.

Appointments and Affiliations

• Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Professor of Computer Science

Contact Information

• Office Location: 429 Belle Gate Pl, Cary, NC 27519
• Office Phone: (612) 703-9849
• Email Address: yiran.chen@duke.edu
• Websites:
  • Duke University Center for Computational Evolutionary Intelligence
  • NSF IUCRC for Alternative Sustainable and Intelligent Computing

Education

• Ph.D. Purdue University, 2005

Research Interests

Nonvolatile memory and storage systems, neuromorphic computing, and mobile applications.

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

• IEEE Fellow. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. 2018

Courses Taught

• COMPSCI 391: Independent Study
• ECE 392: Projects in Electrical and Computer Engineering
• ECE 590: Advanced Topics in Electrical and Computer Engineering
• ECE 891: Internship
• ECE 899: Special Readings in Electrical Engineering

In the News

• Yiran Chen: Integrating Tomorrows Technology into Todays Devices (Jan 3, 2017)

Representative Publications

• Liang, F; Tian, Z; Dong, M; Cheng, S; Sun, L; Li, H; Chen, Y; Zhang, G, Efficient neural network using pointwise convolution kernels with linear phase constraint, Neurocomputing, vol 423 (2021), pp. 572-579 [10.1016/j.neucom.2020.10.067] [abs].
• Xie, Z; Liang, R; Xu, X; Hu, J; Duan, Y; Chen, Y, Net2: A Graph Attention Network Method Customized for Pre-Placement Net Length Estimation, Proceedings of the Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference, Asp Dac (2021), pp. 671-677 [10.1145/3394885.3431562] [abs].
• Liu, X; Mao, M; Bi, X; Li, H; Chen, Y, Exploring Applications of STT-RAM in GPU Architectures, Ieee Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, vol 68 no. 1 (2021), pp. 238-249 [10.1109/TCSI.2020.3031895] [abs].
• Lan, Y; Nixon, KW; Guo, Q; Zhang, G; Xu, Y; Li, H; Chen, Y, FCDM: A Methodology Based on Sensor Pattern Noise Fingerprinting for Fast Confidence Detection to Adversarial Attacks, Ieee Transactions on Computer Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, vol 39 no. 12 (2020), pp. 4791-4804 [10.1109/TCAD.2020.2969982] [abs].
• Li, B; Wang, Y; Chen, Y, HitM: High-Throughput ReRAM-based PIM for Multi-Modal Neural Networks, Ieee/Acm International Conference on Computer Aided Design, Digest of Technical Papers, Iccad, vol 2020-November (2020) [10.1145/3400302.3415663] [abs].