Fan Chen

Assistant Professor

Intelligent Systems Engineering
School of Informatics and Computing
Indiana University Bloomington

Other Affiliations
QSEc: IU-Quantum Science and Engineering Center
LAIC: Luddy Artificial Intelligence Center

Email: fc7@iu.edu
Tel: (812) 855-0446
Office: MESH 121
2425 N Milo B Sampson Ln
Bloomington
IN 47408
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Biography

Fan Chen is an assistant professor in the department of Intelligent Systems Engineering at the Indiana University Bloomington, and is affiliated with IU-Quantum Science and Engineering Center (QSEc) and Luddy Artificial Intelligence Center (LAIC). Dr. Chen received her Ph.D. from the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University, her M.S. and B.S. from Tsinghua University and Xi’an Jiaotong University, China, respectively. Her research interests include Quantum Computing, Quantum Security, Environmentally Sustainable Computing, and Hardware Acceleration for Emerging Applications.

Dr. Chen is the Technical Program Chair of GLSVLSI 2025, IGSC 2024, Posters Track Chair of QCE 2024, Special Session Chair of ISVLSI 2024, chair of SIGDA University Booth at DAC 2022/2021, the Publication Chair of ISLPED 2022/2021, Web and Registration Chair of GLSVLSI 2022, Proceedings Chair of ASAP 2021, Arrangement Chair of GLSVLSI 2021. Dr. Chen is the Technical Program Committee members of over 20 international conference series. Dr. Chen served on the editorial board of IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine (CAS-M) (2021-2023). She also serves as technical reviewers for over 30+ international conferences/journals, such as IEEE TC, IEEE TCAS-I, IEEE TNNLS, IEEE D&T, IEEE IoT-J, ACM TACO, ACM TODAES, ACM JETC, etc.
Dr. Chen is a recipient of the 2022 NSF Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Award, the 2019 Cadence Women in Technology Scholarship. Her research has won the Best Paper Finalists at 2024 Design Automation Conference (DAC), the Best Paper Award (3rd Place) at 2023 IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE), the Best Paper Award and the Ph.D. forum Best Poster Award at 2018 Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC). Dr. Chen's contributions to the research community has been acknowledged by the 2024 ACM SIGDA Meritorious Service Award, the 2022 IEEE Best Associate Editor of the Circuits and Systems Society (CASS), and the 2021 Service Recognition Award of Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI).

Research Interests

  • Quantum Computing, Quantum Security
  • Environmentally Sustainable Computing
  • Accelerator Architecture Design for Emerging Applications

    • I am looking for motivated PhD/master students. Please send me your CV/transcript if you are interested. Undergraduate research positions are also available through Undergraduate Research Opportunities in Computing (UROC) and Sustainability Scholars in Integrated Program in the Environment.

    Honors and Awards

    2024   ACM SIGDA Meritorious Service Award

    2024   DAC Best Paper Finalists

    2023   QCE Best Paper Award - 3rd Place

    2022   IEEE Best Associate Editor of the Circuits and Systems Society (CASS)

    2022   NSF CAREER Award

    2021   Service Recognition Award of GLSVLSI

    2019   Cadence Women in Technology Scholorship

    2018   ASP-DAC Best Paper Award

    2018   ASP-DAC Ph.D. forum Best Poster Award

    Compute Credits

    2024   IBM Quantum Credits ($70,000)

    2023   IonQ Research Credits Program ($10,000)

    In the News

  • Chen earns NSF CAREER Award to advance research improving efficiency of genome sequencing
    • (Jan 27, 2022)

    Professional Activities and Service

    Conference Technical Program Chair:

    • TPC Chair, ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI), 2025
    • TPC Chair, International Green and Sustainable Computing Conference (IGSC), 2024
    Conference Organization Committee:

    • Posters Track Co-Chair, IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE), 2024
    • Special Session Chair, IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI), 2024
    • Vice chair/Chair, SIGDA University Booth at DAC (UBooth@DAC), 2021, 2022
    • Publication Chair, International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED), 2021, 2022
    • Web and Registration chair, ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI), 2022
    • Publicity Chair, International Green and Sustainable Computing Conference (IGSC), 2022, 2023
    • Arrangement Chair, ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI), 2021
    • Proceedings Chair, IEEE International Conference on Application-specific Systems, Architectures and Processors (ASAP), 2021
    • Session Chair, ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI), 2020
    Conference Technical Program Committee:

    • Design Automation Conference (DAC) 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
    • IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE), 2023, 2024.
    • Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC), 2022, 2023, 2024
    • International Green and Sustainable Computing Conference (IGSC), 2021, 2022
    • IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI), 2020, 2021
    • IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Circuits and Systems (AICAS), 2021
    • International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP), 2020
    Journal Editorial:

    • Editorial Board, IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine (IEEE CAS-M), 2021-2023
    Journal Reviewer:

    • ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO)
    • ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing (JETC)
    • ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES)
    • IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC)
    • IEEE Computer Architecture Letters (CAL)
    • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers (TCAS-I)
    • IEEE Design and Test of Computers (Design & Test)
    • IEEE Internet of Things (IoT) Journal (IoT-J)
    • IEEE Embedded Systems Letters (ESL)
    • IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology (TNANO)
    • IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS)
    • IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems (TBioCAS)
    • SCIENCE CHINA Information Sciences
    • Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems
    Others: