He received his Ph.D. from the College of William and Mary, 2004. His research interests mainly focus on design, analysis, and implementation of algorithms and experimental systems in distributed and networking environments, particularly, in the areas of Internet content delivery systems, Internet measurement and modeling, operating systems and system security, distributed systems, and high performance computing. Dr. Chen has served on various system and networking conference TPCs, including IEEE INFOCOM, ICDCS, ACM MM, and WWW. Currently, he is serving as the vice co-chair of ICDCS 2010 for the Internet/network protocol track. His research has been supported by NSF, HP Labs, and AFOSR. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award and AFOSR YIP Award.