Dr. Yingying Chen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology. She is the recipient of the NSF CAREER Award 2010 and Google Research Award 2010. She received Stevens Board of Trustees Award for Scholarly Excellence in 2010. She is also the recipient of the Best Paper Awards from ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom) 2011 and International Conference on Wireless On-demand Network Systems and Services (WONS) 2009, as well as the Best Technological Innovation Award from the International TinyOS Technology Exchange 2006. She also received the IEEE Outstanding Contribution Award from IEEE New Jersey Coast Section each year 2005-2009. She received one-year early promotion with tenure.
Yingying received her Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Rutgers University and MS degree in Computer Science from North Carolina State University. She was a Ph.D. candidate in Physics at North Carolina State University. She received a BS degree in Physics from Nanjing University, China. Prior to joining Stevens Institute of Technology, she was with Alcatel-Lucent at Holmdel & Murray Hill, New Jersey. Her work has involved a combination of research and development of new technologies and real systems, ranging from Network Management Systems for Lucent flagship optical and data products to voice/data integrated services. She was an instructor in the Computer Science Department at Rutgers University previously.
Yingying's research interests include cyber security and privacy, wireless embedded systems, wireless and sensor networks and mobility, mobile social networks and pervasive computing. She has co-authored the book Securing Emerging Wireless Systems Springer 2009 and published over 60 journal articles and referred conference papers. Her research has been reported in numerous media outlets including the Wall Street Journal, MIT Technology Review, Inside Science, NPR, and CNET.