Research Interests: Networking, ML systems, virtual reality, immersive/visual/spatial computing, and mobile/edge computing.

I am now on job market (2024-2025). Feel free to ping me if you have any openings.

Here is my CV (Updated Mar 2025), Research Statement, and Teaching Statement.

Contact:boc2@illinois.edu or bochen1993cs@gmail.com

A list of useful resources for a tentative course on “immersive computing with AI-system co-design”.

This is Bo Chen, a postdoc at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) working with Prof. Klara Nahrstedt. I obtained my Ph.D. in computer science at UIUC in 2022, advised by Prof. Klara Nahrstedt. Before coming to UIUC, I got my B.E. degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), under the supervision of Prof. Xinbing Wang.

I build immersive computing systems that support advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) models with AI-system co-design:

  1. AI-for-Immersion Insight: Identifying insights from Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques to overcome the limitation of traditional immersive computing systems.
  2. AI-System Joint Design: Customized system optimization and adapt AI architecture or training to overcome performance degradation of AI systems.

Guided by AI-system co-design, my research advances immersive computing systems in the following directions:

1. Efficiency

2. Photo-realism

3. Reliability

🔥 News

  • 2025.3:  🎉🎉 One Paper Conditionally Accepted in ACM MobiSys’25.
  • 2025.1:  🎉🎉 Paper Accepted in ACM HotMobile’25, Advancing Immersive Content Delivery with Dynamic 3D Gaussian Splatting.
  • 2024.12:  🎉🎉 One Paper Accepted in ACM MobiCom’25.
  • 2024.12:  🎉🎉 Invited Talk at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Advancing Immersive Computing with AI-System Co-design.
  • 2024.11:  🎉🎉 Invited Talk at UM-SJTU Joint Institute, Advancing Immersive Computing with AI-System Co-design.
  • 2024.09:  🎉🎉 Paper Accepted in ACM SenSys’24, ImmerScope: Multi-view Video Aggregation at Edge towards Immersive Content Services.
  • 2024.04:  🎉🎉 Invited Talk at UIUC Sys-Net Spring 2024 Retreat, NeRFHub: A Context-Aware NeRF Serving Framework for Mobile Immersive Applications.
  • 2024.03:  🎉🎉 Invited Talk at UT Dallas, Advancing Immersive Computing Systems in Age of Machine Learning.
  • 2024.03:  🎉🎉 Paper Accepted in ACM MobiSys’24, NeRFHub: A Context-Aware NeRF Serving Framework for Mobile Immersive Applications.
  • 2024.01:  🎉🎉 Paper Accepted in ACM MMSys’24, Learning to Manage Uncertainty in Video Streaming.
  • 2023.12:  🎉🎉 Paper Accepted in USENIX NSDI’24, LiFteR: Unleash Learned Codecs in Video Streaming with Loose Frame Referencing.

📝 Selected Publications

🎖 Honors and Awards

  • 2022.06 Best Student Paper Award (ACM MMSys 2022).
  • 2020.12 Best Paper Award (IEEE ISM 2022).
  • 2019.06 SIGMM Travel Grant (ACM MMSys 2019).

📖 Educations

  • 2022.07 - 2025.03 (now), Postdoctoral Research Associate at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA.
  • 2016.09 - 2022.05, Ph.D. at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA.
  • 2012.09 - 2016.06, B.S. at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.
  • 2009.09 - 2012.06, High school at Fuzhou No.1 High School, Fuzhou, China.

💻 Internships

  • 2020.05 - 2020.08, Student intern at Meta.
  • 2019.05 - 2019.07, Research intern at AT&T.

📖 Teaching

  • 2024, CS 537 Advanced Topics in IOT, Teaching Assistant, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
  • 2023, CS 537 Advanced Topics in IOT, Teaching Assistant, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
  • 2022, CS 537 Advanced Topics in IOT, Teaching Assistant, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
  • 2020, CS 438 Communication Network, Teaching Assistant, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

💬 Services

  • Reviewer, 2025: ACM MM, ACM TOMM, IEEE TMM, 2024: ACM MM, IEEE ICCCN, ACM TOMM, 2023: ACM MM, ACM MMSys, ACM TOMM.
  • TPC Member, 2025: ACM MMSys, 2024: ACM MMSys, 2023: SEC, ImmerCOM.
  • Publication Chair, 2024: NSF Workshop on Sustainable Computing for Sustainability, 2023: IEEE SECON.