Biography

I am an incoming Tenure-Track Associate Professor of Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU). Currently, I am working as a postdoc at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) with Prof. Klara Nahrstedt since 2022. 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 was recognized as the MobiSys’25 Rising Star for Intelligent Network Infrastructure for Extended Reality.

Contact: boc2 at illinois dot edu

Hiring

I am actively hiring students at all levels (Ph.D., M.S., and Undergrad) to work with me starting from 2026 Fall and beyond. Please feel free to drop me an email with your CV and research interests if you are interested in working with me. Read more.

Research Interests

My research interests include but are not limited to Networking, ML Systems, Virtual Reality, Immersive Computing, and Mobile Computing. In the past, I build Immersive Computing Systems by co-designing ML and System aspects, which advances the following directions in immersive computing:

1. Efficiency

• 2D Video Streaming with Neural Codec (NSDI’24)
• Multi-view Video Streaming with Asymmetric Neural Codec (SenSys’24)
• Visual Analytics Offloading with Context-aware Compression (MMSys’22, Best Student Paper)
• 360 Video Streaming with Semantic View Prediction (ISM’20, Best Paper Award)
• LLM Serving with Cache (EMNLP’25)
• Image Segmentation with Back Tracking (MIPR’25, Best Student Paper Award)

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

• 2025.8:  🎉🎉 Received the Best Student Paper Award at IEEE MIPR 2025.
• 2025.6:  🎉🎉 Selected as one of the Rising Star Best Presentation.
• 2025.5:  🎉🎉 Recognized as one of the MobiSys’25 Rising Star for Intelligent Network Infrastructure for Extended Reality.
• 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

• 2025.8: Best Student Paper Award (IEEE MIPR 2025)
• 2025.6: Rising Star Best Presentation Award (ACM MobiSys 2025).
• 2025.5: Rising Star (ACM MobiSys 2025).
• 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.