Bio

Bo Chen

Postdoctoral Research Associate

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

boc2 at illinois dot edu

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  • This is Bo Chen, a postdoc at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) advised by Prof. Klara Nahrstedt. I obtained my Ph.D. in computer science at UIUC in 2022. My thesis topic is Learning-based Saliency-aware Compression Framework. Before coming to UIUC, I got my B.E. degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU).
  • My research interest lies in Networking&Systems, Image/Video Processing, and Machine Learning. My goal is to design efficient and scalable multimedia systems.
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Research Interests

  • Networking & Systems, Image/Video Processing, and Machine Learning

Selected Publications

  • LSVC: Learned Video Codec System for Live Streaming
    • In submission
  • [Best Student Paper] Context-aware Image Compression Optimization for Visual Analytics Offloading
    • Bo Chen, Zhisheng Yan, Klara Nahrstedt
    • ACM MMSys 2022
  • Deep Contextualized Compressive Offloading for Images
    • Bo Chen, Zhisheng Yan, Hongpeng Guo, Zhe Yang, Ahmed Ali-Eldin,Prashant Shenoy, Klara Nahrstedt
    • AIChallengeIoT 2022, Workshop co-located with ACM SenSys 2021
  • EScALation: A Framework for Efficient and Scalable Spatio-temporal Action Localization
    • Bo Chen, Klara Nahrstedt
    • ACM MMSys 2021
  • Real-time Spatio-Temporal Action Localization in 360 Videos
    • Bo Chen, Ahmed Ali-Eldin, Prashant Shenoy and Klara Nahrstedt
    • IEEE ISM 2020
  • Event-driven Stitching for Tile-based 360 Video Live Streaming
    • Bo Chen, Zhisheng Yan, Haiming Jin, Klara Nahrstedt
    • ACM MMSys 2019
  • FIS: Facial Information Segmentation for Video Redaction
    • Bo Chen, Klara Nahrstedt
    • IEEE MIPR 2019
  • ReSPonSe: Real-time, Secure, and Privacy-aware Video Redaction System
    • Bo Chen, Klara Nahrstedt, Carl Gunter
    • EAI MobiQuitous 2018

Education

  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, USA, July 2022-Present
    • Postdoc, Computer Science
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, USA, September 2016-May 2022
    • Ph. D. candidate, Computer Science
  • Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, September 2012-June 2016
    • B.E. in Information Engineering
  • Fuzhou No. 1 High School, Fuzhou, China, September 2009-June 2012
    • High School

Working Experience

  • Facebook, Menlo Park, CA, May 2020-August 2020
    Student Intern, Supervised by Luke Wang
  • AT&T, Bedminster, NJ, May 2019-July 2019
    Student Intern, Supervised by Shu Shi

Teaching

  • CS 438 Communication Networks, 2020, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • CS 537 Advanced Topics in IOT, 2022, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Computer Skills

  • Computer Languages: C/C++, Python
  • Tools: PyTorch, Docker, Kafka, GStreamer, OpenCV