Professor and Head of Graduate Admissions
Email: chen@cse.tamu.edu
Phone: 979/845-4259 Fax: 979/847-8578
Office: HRBB 309B
http://faculty.cse.tamu.edu/chen/
Ph.D. Mathematics, Columbia University, 1990
Ph.D. Computer Science, New York University, 1987
M.Phil. Mathematics, Columbia University, 1990
M.A. Mathematics, Columbia University, 1989
M.S. Computer Science, New York University, 1984
B.S. Computer Science, CSUT, P.R. China, 1982
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Algorithms and complexity, computer networks, bioinformatics, computer graphics
SELECTED RESEARCH SUPPORT
"Studies of New Algorithmic Techniques for Parameterized Computation," NSF
PI: Jianer Chen
"Topological Graph Theory Revisited: With Applications in Computer Graphics," NSF
PI: Jianer Chen, co-PI: Ergun Akleman
"Secure Aggregation for Large-Scale Wireless Sensor Networks," THECB ATP PI:
Jianer Chen
AWARDS
- AFS Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award (university level), Texas A&M University, 2007
- AFS Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award (college level), Texas A&M University, 2006
- E.D. Brockett Professorship Award, College of Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2005
- Eugene E. Webb '43 Faculty Fellow, Texas A&M University, 2003
- AFS Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award (college level), Texas A&M University, 1998
- Amoco Faculty Award, Texas A&M University, 1998
- TEES Select Young Faculty Award, Texas A&M University, 1993
- Research Initiation Award, The National Science Foundation, 1991
- Janet Fabri Award, for Best Ph.D. Dissertation, New York University, 1988
- First Place Mathematics Competition, Hunan, P.R. China, 1980
EXPERIENCE
- Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2002 - present
- Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, 1996
- Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, 1990
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND SERVICES
- Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Computers
- Associate Editor, Science in China Series F: Information Sciences
- Steering Committee Member, The International Workshop on Parameterized and Exact Computation (IWPEC)
- Program Committee Chair, The 6th Annual Conference on Theory and Applications of Models of Computations (TAMC 2009), Changsha, China, May 18-22, 2009
- Program Committee Chair, The 4th International Workshop on Parameterized And Exact Computation (IWPEC 2009), Copenhagen, Denmark, September 10-11, 2009
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Akleman, J. Chen, Q. Xing, and J. Gross, “Cyclic plain-weaving on polygonal mesh surfaces with graph rotation system,”
ACM Transactions on Graphics 28-3 (SIGGRAPH 2009), 2009.
J. Chen, J. Kneis, S. Lu, D. Molle, S. Richter, P. Rossmanith, S.-H. Sze, and F. Zhang, “Randomized divide-and-conquer: improved path, matching, and packing algorithms,”
SIAM Journal on Computing, pp. 2526-2547, 2009.
J. Chen, Y. Liu, S. Lu, B. O’Sullivan, and I. Razgon, “A fixed-parameter algorithm for the directed feedback vertex set problem,”
Journal of the ACM 55(5), 2008
J. Chen, X. Huang, I. Kanj, and G. Xia, "Strong computational lower bounds via parameterized complexity,"
Journal of Computer and System Sciences 72, pp. 1346-1367, 2006
