Xingran Chen is a tenure-track Assistant Professor (as of Jul 2026) in the Engineering Systems and Design Pillar at Singapore University of Technology and Design. Prior to joining SUTD, he was a postdoc at Rutgers University (Jan 2025 – Apr 2026), and an Assistant Professor at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (Sep 2023 – Apr 2026). He earned his PhD in Electrical and Systems Engineering (May 2023) from the University of Pennsylvania. Dr Chen’s research focuses on information-theoretic foundations and algorithms for networked intelligence and security. He received the IEEE Communications Society & Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award in 2023. Dr Chen is a member of IEEE. He has served the research community through editorial and conference service, including a Guest Editor for China Communications in 2024 and Entropy in 2025, as an Advisory TPC member for IEEE INFOCOM 2027, and as a TPC member for WiOpt 2026, IEEE ICC 2024, and IEEE GLOBECOM Workshop 2020. His research is supported by NSF of China and Ministry of Education of China.

His research focuses on the information-theoretic foundations and learning algorithms for decentralized networks, including (i) decentralised learning and large language models, (ii) security, privacy, and robustness, and (iii) networking and multi-agent systems.

The three most recent publications (the complete publication list is available at here):