PhD student Tingjun Chen was selected as one of 200 young researchers from around the world to attend the 6th Heidelberg Laureate Forum, which took place Sept. 23–28, in Heidelberg, Germany.Tingjun is a Ph.D. student in the Wireless & Mobile Networking (wim.net) Research Lab, led by Professor Gil Zussman, which focuses on wireless, mobile, and resilient networks and systems.His research interests include PHY/MAC layer algorithms, optimization, and system implementation in Internet-of-Things (IoT), energy-harvesting networks, full-duplex wireless, and mmWave and 5G networks.
Attendees at the highly selective Heidelberg Laureate Forum have the opportunity to meet and interact with recipients of the most prestigious awards in mathematics and computer science, including the Abel Prize, the Fields Medal, the ACM A.M. Turing Award, and the ACM Prize in Computing. The one-week event combines scientific, social, and public outreach activities.
“Besides meeting with brilliant researchers and scholars,” says Tingjun, “I view this as an opportunity to see what's going on in research in other outstanding groups in computer science and math—some of which I expect to be familiar with, and some not at all. In particular, I’m interested in learning about advanced algorithms for efficiently solving complex large-scale problems that can be applied to the next-generation wireless systems and networks.”