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
"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, Journal of Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics
- Guest Editor, Special Issue on Exact and Parameterized Computation, Algorithmica, 2008
- Guest Editor, Special Issue on Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer
Science, Discrete Applied Mathematics, 2004
- Guest Editor, Special Issue on Parameterized Computation and Complexity,
Journal of Computer and System Sciences, 2003
- 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
- Member: ACM, SIAM
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
J. Chen, Y. Liu, S. Lu, B. O'Sullivan, and I. Razgon, "A Fixed-Parameter Algorithm for the Directed Feedback Vertex Set Problem," J. ACM 55(5), 2008
F. Zhang, A. Jiang, and J. Chen, "Robust Planarization of Unlocalized Wireless Sensor Networks," The Conference on Computer Communication (IEEE INFOCOM 2008), 2008
M. Xie, J. Wang, and J. Chen, "A Model of Higher Accuracy for the Individual Haplotyping Problem Based on Weighted SNP Fragments and Genotype with Errors," The Annual International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB 2008), 2008
J. Chen, S. Lu, S.-H. Sze, and F. Zhang, "Improved Algorithms for Path, Matching, and Packing Problems," ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA 2007), 2007
J. Chen, H. Fernau, I. Kanj, G. Xia, "Parametric Duality and
Kernelization: Lower Bounds and Upper Bounds on Kernel Size," SIAM Journal on Computing 37, 2007
