EXPERIENCE
PhD Student & Research Assistant August 2008 – August 2011
Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, Tennessee, USA
Worked on cognitive radio and cognitive radio networks: system architecture, algorithms, and network testbed. – Have published 15 papers on cognitive radio since 2009 (including 11 first-author papers) – Proposed algorithms for cognitive radio on spectrum sensing, cooperative spectrum sensing, channel state prediction, cooperative channel state prediction, spectrum auction, etc – Proposed architectures for cognitive radio and cognitive radio network testbed, and proposed the design of an FPGA motherboard for the nodes of cognitive radio network testbeds – Contributed to applying cognitive radio to smart grid Selected original contributions to cognitive radio: – Proposed an architecture for cognitive radio systems – Proposed an algorithm, named “FAR,” for real-time spectrum sensing, and evaluated it on hardware platform – Demonstrated real-time spectrum sensing (To our best knowledge, this is the first time that real-time spectrum sensing on hardware platform with controllable primary users is demonstrated.) – Proposed an approach for quickest spectrum detection and recognition for cognitive radio, and evaluated it experimentally – Proposed an approach for cooperative spectrum sensing, and evaluated it experimentally – Defined the response delay, and measured the minimum responses on hardware platforms – Introduced channel state prediction to cognitive radio – Proposed an approach for single-SU channel state prediction using modified HMM, and evaluated it experimentally – Proposed a soft-combining decision rule for cooperative channel state prediction, and evaluated it experimentally – Proposed an approach for channel state prediction using higher-order HMM, and evaluated it experimentally – Proposed a bidding algorithm for spectrum auction, and evaluated it by simulations – Proposed an architecture for cognitive radio network testbeds – Proposed an architecture of the FPGA motherboard for the nodes of cognitive radio network testbeds – Proposed a design for the FPGA motherboard Contributed to research proposals: – Composed most part of the proposal for Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) 2009 (this proposal has been funded with $396,000) – Organized and contributed to the composition of technical proposal for 2010 Defensive Earmark Project (this proposal has been funded with $1,000,000) – Contributed to the composition of other research proposals: Department of Defense Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (DEPSCoR) 2009, Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) 2010, and National Science Foundation (NSF) 2010, 2011 Working on funded projects: – Office of Naval Research Earmark project, N00014-11-1-0006, $1,000,000, "Cognitive Radio Institute" – Office of Naval Research DURIP, N00010-10-1-0810, $396,000, "Cognitive Radio Network Testbed" – National Science Foundation, ECCS-0901420, $170,000, "Collaborative Research: Wideband Cognitive Radio Communication: Modeling, Algorithm and Testbed" – National Science Foundation, ECCS-0821658, $196,000, "MRI: Acquisition of Research and Education Equipment for Ultra-Wideband Wireless Sensor Network and Radar Sensing Integration" Senior System Engineer April 2008 – June 2008
Huaya Microelectronics Inc., Shanghai, China Worked on video codec and video processing drivers in the System Group. Project #1: AVS (Chinese Audio Video coding Standard) and MPEG-2 based set-top box (STB) system development. Project #2: Next-generation, high performance, high definition and multiple standard video decoding IC chip development for STB / digital TV (DTV) applications. Office Manager & Senior Technical Sales Engineer July 2007 – March 2008
LSD Science & Technology (Lierda), Shenyang, China Took charge of Shenyang office. Developed the market and sold MSP430 microcontroller units (MCUs) of TI (Texas Instruments) in the northeast of China.
– Developed potential customers. Visited customers and maintained the relationship. – Made sales plans. Coordinated as the bridge between customers and the company. – Supervised and coordinated other engineers and staffs in the office. Research Engineer February 2004 – July 2007 STMicroelectronics, Shanghai, China Contributed to and managed research projects for the AST (advanced system technology) division of STMicroelectronics. Project #1: View Point project. Project #2: DVB-H project (Mobile-TV). Project #3: AVS-M video codec project. Project #4 and #5: AVS video decoder projects. Project #6: MEMS (micro electromechanical system) application project.
Worked with marketing engineers on promoting ST 3-axis accelerometer chips. – Developed application software for ST 3-axis accelerometer chips. – Demonstrated ST 3-axis accelerometer chips to customer, e.g., Lenovo. Algorithm Engineer January 2003 – January 2004 UTStarcom, Shanghai, China Worked for the algorithm group in the IC design division of UTStarcom. Contributed to the project of designing a PHS (personal handset system) base-band IC for PHS mobile phone. This is the first PHS base-band IC in China.
– Simulated physical layer algorithms using MATLAB. Tuned the parameters of the algorithms. Built C++ models, and simulated RX-link performance. Designed unit testing plans, and generated testing vectors. Performed conformance testing. – Implemented the physical layer algorithms on ZSP400 DSP processor. Wrote DSP code in assembler, and optimized the code. Performed unit testing and conformance testing. EDUCATION Doctor of Philosophy August 2008 – August 2011
Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, Tennessee, USA Majored in Electrical and Computer Engineering in the College of Engineering.Dissertation title: "Cognitive radio network: Architecture, algorithms, and testbed." GPA: 4.0/4.0.
Master of Science September 2000 – March 2003 Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China Majored in Signal and Information Processing in the College of Communications Engineering.
Thesis title: "Study and implementation of speech recognition system for mobile communication terminals." (WanfangData, PDF in Chinese) Bachelor of Science September 1996 – July 2000 Northeastern University, Shenyang, Liaoning, China Majored in Telecommunications Engineering in the College of Information Science and Engineering.
Thesis title: "Design of communications and graphics software for public intelligence IC card telephone." PUBLICATIONS [1] Zhe Chen, C. Zhang, F. Lin, J. Yu, X. Li, Y. Song, R. Ranganathan, N. Guo, and R. C. Qiu, "Towards a large-scale cognitive radio network: Testbed, intensive computing, frequency agility, and security," (invited paper) to appear in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC 2012), Maui, HI, January 2012. (PDF) [2] Zhe Chen and R. C. Qiu, “Cooperative spectrum sensing using Q-learning with experimental validation,” in Proceedings of IEEE SoutheastCon, Nashville, TN, March 2011. (IEEE Xplore, PDF, PPT) [3] Zhe Chen and R. C. Qiu, “Q-Learning Based Bidding Algorithm for Spectrum Auction in Cognitive Radio,” in Proceedings of IEEE SoutheastCon, Nashville, TN, March 2011. (IEEE Xplore, PDF, PPT) [4] Zhe Chen, N. Guo, and R. C. Qiu, “Building a cognitive radio network testbed,” in Proceedings of IEEE SoutheastCon, Nashville, TN, March 2011. (IEEE Xplore, PDF, PPT) [5] Zhe Chen, N. Guo, Z. Hu, and R. C. Qiu, “Channel state prediction in cognitive radio, part I: Response delays in practical hardware platforms,” in Proceedings of IEEE SoutheastCon, Nashville, TN, March 2011. (IEEE Xplore, PDF, PPT) [6] Zhe Chen, N. Guo, Z. Hu, and R. C. Qiu, “Channel state prediction in cognitive radio, part II: Single-user prediction,” in Proceedings of IEEE SoutheastCon, Nashville, TN, March 2011. (IEEE Xplore, PDF, PPT) [7] Zhe Chen, N. Guo, Z. Hu, and R. C. Qiu, "Experimental validation of channel state prediction considering delays in practical cognitive radio," IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 60, no. 4, pp. 1314-1325, May, 2011. (IEEE Xplore, PDF) [8] Zhe Chen, N. Guo, and R. C. Qiu, "Demonstration of real-time spectrum sensing for cognitive radio," (short paper), IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 14, no. 10, pp. 915-917, October, 2010. (IEEE Xplore, PDF) [9] Zhe Chen, N. Guo, and R. C. Qiu, "Demonstration of real-time spectrum sensing for cognitive radio," (full paper), in Proceedings of IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM 2010), San Jose, CA, November 2010. (IEEE Xplore, PDF, PPT) [10] Zhe Chen and R. C. Qiu, "Prediction of channel state for cognitive radio using higher-order hidden Markov model," in Proceedings of IEEE SoutheastCon, Charlotte, NC, March 2010. (IEEE Xplore, PDF, PPT) [11] Zhe Chen, Z. Hu, and R. C. Qiu, "Quickest spectrum detection using hidden Markov model for cognitive radio," in Proceedings of IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM'09), Boston, MA, October 2009. (IEEE Xplore, PDF, PPT) [12] Zhe Chen and R. C. Qiu, "Measurement denoising using kernel adaptive filters in the Smart Grid," submitted to IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid. [13] R. C. Qiu, Zhe Chen, N. Guo, Y. Song, P. Zhang, H. Li and L. Lai, "Towards a real-time cognitive radio network testbed: Architecture, hardware platform, and application to smart grid," (invited paper) in Proceedings of Fifth IEEE Workshop on Networking Technologies for Software-Defined Radio and White Space, Boston, MA, June 2010. (IEEE Xplore, PDF) [14] R. C. Qiu, Z. Hu, Zhe Chen, N. Guo, R. Ranganathan, S. Hou and G. Zheng, “Cognitive radio network for the Smart Grid: Experimental system architecture, control algorithms, security, and Microgrid testbed,” (invited paper) to appear in IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 2011. (TNTech) [15] S. Hou, R. C. Qiu, Zhe Chen, and Z. Hu, "SVM and dimensionality reduction in cognitive radio with experimental validation," submitted to EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing. [16] R. Ranganathan, R. C. Qiu, Z. Hu, S. Hou, M. P. Revilla, G. Zheng, Zhe Chen and N. Guo, "Cognitive radio for Smart Grid: Theory, algorithms, and security", (invited paper) International Journal of Digital Multimedia Broadcasting, vol. 2011, Article ID 502087, 14 pages, 2011. doi:10.1155/2011/502087. (Open Access) [17] R. C. Qiu, N. Guo, H. Li, Z. Wu, V. Chakravarthy, Y. Song, Z. Hu, P. Zhang, Zhe Chen, "A unified multi-functional dynamic spectrum access framework: tutorial, theory and multi-GHz wideband testbed," Sensors, vol. 9, no. 8, pp. 6530-6603, August 2009. (Open Access) [18] L. Fan and Zhe Chen, "An effective algorithm based on cluster analysis for CFA image processing," in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Neural Networks and Signal Processing (ICNNSP'08), Zhenjiang, China, June 2008. (IEEE Xplore)
[19] Zhe Chen and G. Chen, "An adaptive weighting approach for image color and magnitude interpolation," in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE'07), Las Vegas, NV, January 2007. (IEEE Xplore, PDF)
[20] Zhe Chen and F. Zhang, "A study of the bootload modes of TMS320VC5416 DSP," Journal of Hangzhou Institute of Electronic Engineering, vol. 22, no. 6, pp. 65-68, December 2002. (WanfangData, PDF in Chinese)
[21] Zhe Chen and F. Zhang, "A study of the open multimedia application platform (OMAP)," Journal of Hangzhou Institute of Electronic Engineering, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 41-44, June 2002.(WanfangData, PDF in Chinese)
PUBLISHED PATENTS
[1, 2] Zhe Chen and G. Chen, “Adaptive classification scheme for CFA image interpolation,” China Patent: application number 200510116542.6, United States Patent: application number: 11/582,128. (Google Patent)
BOOK CHAPTERS [1] R. Ranganathan, R. C. Qiu, Z. Hu, S. Hou, Zhe Chen, M. Pazos-Revilla, and N. Guo, “Cognitive radio network for Smart Grid,” in “Security and Privacy in Smart Grids,” to be published by CRC Press. TECHNICAL REPORTS [1] Primary comparison between AVS1.0 and H.264/AVC. [2] Proposed implementation architecture of motion compensation for both H.264 and AVS1.0 decoding. [3] Proposed implementation architecture of loop filter for both H.264 and AVS1.0 decoding. [4] Proposed implementations of VLC decoder and IQ-IT module for H.264/AVC and AVS1.0. [5] Motion compensation of AVS-M and H.264 baseline. [6] Loop filter of AVS-M and H.264 baseline. [7] AVS-M decoding on Nomadik. [8] MPE-FEC codec for DVB-H. [9] Image demosizing algorithm.
ACADEMIC SERVICES Reviewer IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
IEEE Communications Letters IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications International Journal of Digital Multimedia Broadcasting International Journal of Electronics and Communications IEEE Global Communications Conference 2009 (GLOBECOM'09) IEEE Military Communications Conference 2009 (MILCOM'09) IEEE Southeastern Symposium on System Theory 2009 (SSST'09) IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference 2009 Fall (VTC2009-Fall) IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference 2010 Spring (VTC2010-Spring) IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband 2010 (ICUWB2010)
IEEE Global Communications Conference 2010 (GLOBECOM2010) IEEE Military Communications Conference 2010 (MILCOM2010)
IEEE 1st International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm2010)
IEEE International Conference on Wireless Communications and Signal Processing 2010 (WCSP2010)
IEEE 22nd International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC'11) Review Editor Deputy Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.) Technical Program Chair Deputy IEEE Global Communications Conference 2009 (GLOBECOM'09) IEEE Military Communications Conference 2009 (MILCOM'09) IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference 2010 Spring (VTC2010-Spring) IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband 2010 (ICUWB2010) IEEE 1st International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm2010)
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