• I am a postdoctoral research fellow at The University of Hong Kong (HKU) working with Prof. Kaibin Huang and Prof. Xianhao Chen.
• Before HKU, I received my B.E. and Ph.D. degrees in Information and Communication Engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), Harbin, China, in 2018 and 2023, respectively. During the doctoral program, I was supervised by Prof. Weixiao Meng.
• I was a visiting student with the Information Systems Technology and Design (ISTD) Pillar, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), Singapore, from December 2021 to December 2022, supervised by Prof. Tony Q.S. Quek.
• I have self-studied to pass all required subjects of the National Uniform Certified Public Accountant (CPA) Examination of P.R. China and I am a CPA holder.
• If you are willing to collaborate with me, please feel free to email me (qcheneee[AT]hku.hk / qian.chen[AT]ieee.org).

Research Interests

• Networked Distributed AI
  • Resource-constrained federated learning
  • Edge inference
  • Model caching for efficient delivery
• Large Language Models (LLM)
  • LLM distributed deployment
  • Scalable and efficient LLM inference
• Space-air-ground Integrated Networks (SAGIN)
  • Edge intelligence in SAGIN
  • Performance analysis and optimization
  • Dynamic task scheduling

News

• (Dec. 2025) One first-author paper, “FedMeld: A Model-dispersal Federated Learning Framework for Space-ground Integrated Networks”, has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (CCF A).
• (Jun. 2025) I was awarded Glasgow/HKU Early Career Mobility Funds 2025-26. (Only 12 people received this award in HKU)
• (Jun. 2025) We will deliver our tutorial, “Towards 6G Intelligence in Space-Ground Integrated Networks: Random Access, Mobility Management, and Federated Learning”, at IEEE ICCT 2025. See you in Shenyang!
• (May 2025) I was shortlisted by University Research Committee (URC) Post-doctoral Fellow/Research Assistant Professor Scheme! (Only 3 people received this award in HKU EEE)
• (Mar. 2025) We organized a Special Issue, “Wireless Communications and Networking for Space-Air-Ground Integrated Networks”, in Mobile Networks and Applications, a top-tier (T1) international journal in the field of information and communications technology.
• (Jan. 2025) I received the 2024 Excellent Doctoral Thesis Nomination Award by the China Education Society of Electronics.
• (Oct. 2024) It’s a great honor to have been invited by Journal of Information and Intelligence to give a talk at Xidian University about my Ph.D. work, Theoretical Performance Analysis and Service Scheduling Method of Space-air Integrated Networks!
• (Sep. 2024) I am honored to be elected as a Youth Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Information and Intelligence.
• (Aug. 2024) I am honored to be the Publication Chair of EAI WiSATS 2024.
• (Jun. 2024) One first-author paper, “A Survey on Resource Management in Joint Communication and Computing-Embedded SAGIN”, has been accepted by IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials [News] (IF=46.7, ESI Top 1% Highly Cited Paper, ESI Top 0.1% Hot Paper)

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