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 at illinois dot edu
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:
- AI-for-Immersion Insight: Identifying insights from Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques to overcome the limitation of traditional immersive computing systems.
- 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
- 2D Video Streaming (NSDI’24)
- Multi-view Video Streaming (SenSys’24)
- Visual Analytics Offloading (MMSys’22, Best Student Paper)
- 360 Video Streaming (ISM’20, Best Paper Award)
- Efficient LLM Serving with Cache (Arxiv’25)
2. Photo-realism
- NeRF-based Video Streaming with Viewport Optimization (MobiCom’25)
- NeRF-based Video Streaming with Rate Adaptation (MobiSys’25)
- 3D Gaussian Splatting-based Video Streaming (HotMobile’25)
- NeRF-based 3D Content Serving (MobiSys’24)
3. Reliability
- Uncertainty in 2D Video Streaming (MMSys’24)
- Reliable Gauge Reading (MIPR’24)
- Quantization Rectification in Image Compression (ICML’23 NCW)
- Reliable Underwater Image Transmission (Arxiv’25)
🔥 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
- [SenSys 2024] Bo Chen, Hongpeng Guo, Mingyuan Wu, Zhe Yang, Zhisheng Yan, Klara Nahrstedt, ImmerScope: Multi-view Video Aggregation at Edge towards Immersive Content Services
- [NSDI 2024] Bo Chen, Zhisheng Yan, Yinjie Zhang, Zhe Yang, Klara Nahrstedt, LiFteR: Unleash Learned Codecs in Video Streaming with Loose Frame Referencing
- [MobiSys 2024] Bo Chen, Zhisheng Yan, Bo Han, Klara Nahrstedt, NeRFHub: A Context-Aware NeRF Serving Framework for Mobile Immersive Applications
- [MMSys 2024] Bo Chen, Mingyuan Wu, Hongpeng Guo, Zhisheng Yan, Klara Nahrstedt, Vesper: Learning to Manage Uncertainty in Video Streaming
- [MMSys 2022 (Best Student Paper)] Bo Chen, Zhisheng Yan, Klara Nahrstedt, Context-aware Image Compression Optimization for Visual Analytics Offloading, Media Coverage: Siebel School News, George Mason University News
- [ISM 2020 (Best Paper Award)]Jounsup Park, Mingyuan Wu, Eric Lee, Bo Chen, Klara Nahrstedt, Michael Zink, Ramesh Sitaraman, SEAWARE: Semantic Aware View Prediction System for 360-degree Video Streaming
- Please check the full list at Google Scholar or dblp.
🎖 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.