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Zheng Chen

Associate Professor, Docent

Zheng Chen is an Associate Professor and Docent at the Division of Communication Systems, Department of Electrical Engineering, , Sweden.

She received her M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in 2013 and 2016, respectively, both from CentraleSupélec, Université Paris-Saclay, France. She has been working at Linköping University since 2017.

Research interests

Her research interests center on stochastic modeling and optimization for wireless communication networks, including wireless edge caching, energy harvesting, age of information, and massive MIMO. Her current work focuses on efficient and secure decentralized AI in large-scale wireless networks. Specific topics include communication-efficient distributed consensus and optimization, resource allocation for wireless federated learning, function computation over wireless networks, and privacy-preserving, resilient distributed machine learning.

She is currently an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Communications, and IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking.

Her research activities are supported by Zenith, ELLIIT, Swedish Research Council, and the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation.

Her publications can be found on the page.

Awards and Activities

  • She was appointed a in 2025.
  • She was the recipient of the 2020

Grants and Projects

  • ELLIIT project on “Coding for Secure Federated Learning”, 2026-2031.
  • Swedish Research Council (VR) starting grant, “Next-Generation Communication Design for Distributed Intelligence over Wireless Networks”, 2023-2027.
  • Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program (WASP) academic PhD student project, 2023-2028.
  • Zenith project grant, “Wireless Network Design for Decentralized Machine Learning”, 2021-2026.
  • Co-PI of Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation project grant, “Turning the air into an AI computer”. PI: Erik G. Larsson (LiU).

Teaching

She is currently teaching two Master-level courses:

  • Distributed Information Processing and Machine Learning
  • Information Networks

Ph.D. Supervision

Current students as the main supervisor:

Current students as the co-supervisor:

Previously graduated students as the co-supervisor:

  • Jianan Bai, PhD awarded in 2025
  • Chung-Hsuan Hu, PhD awarded in 2026

Research

Publications

Chung-Hsuan Hu, Zheng Chen, Erik G Larsson, , IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications 44:1008-1012 (2026)

Chung-Hsuan Hu, Zheng Chen, Erik G Larsson, , IEEE Transactions on Communications 73:1142-1156 (2025)

Daniel Pérez Herrera, Zheng Chen, Erik G Larsson, , IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society 6:1497-1511 (2025)

Jaiprakash Nagar, Zheng Chen, Marios Kountouris, Photios A. Stavrou, Information Entropy-Based Scheduling for Communication-Efficient Decentralized Learning (2025)

Jianan Bai, Zheng Chen, Erik G Larsson, , IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking 11:1535-1550 (2025)

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