Education
- Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering - Northeastern University
- M.S. in Electrical Engineering - State University of New York at Buffalo (2014)
- M.S. in Information Science and Engineering - Shandong University, Jinan, China (2011)
- B.S. in Information Science and Engineering - Shandong University, Jinan, China (2008)
Research Interests
Nan Cen earned her Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Northeastern University, where she worked in the Wireless Networks and Embedded Systems Laboratory under Professor Tommaso Melodia. She received her M.S. in Electrical Engineering from The State University of New York at Buffalo in 2014, and both her B.S. and M.S. in Information Science and Engineering from Shandong University, Jinan, China, in 2008 and 2011 respectively. From 2011 to 2012 she was a software developer at Alcatel-Lucent Co. in Qingdao, China. She worked as a summer intern at Bell Labs in 2014 and at IBM in 2010. Her research focused on visible light networking, visible light beamforming, resource allocation, protocol design, multimedia transmission over wireless sensor networks, compressed sensing applications, Internet of Things, massive MIMO and its applications in 5G, and software-defined networks. She was the recipient of the N2 Women Young Researcher Fellowship at MobiHoc 2015 and served as Chair of the IEEE Shandong University Student Branch from 2009 to 2011.
