Yang Chen is an Associate Professor within the School of Computer Science at Fudan University, and leads the Mobile Systems and Networking (MSN) group at Fudan. From April 2011 to September 2014, he was a postdoctoral associate at the Department of Computer Science, Duke University, USA, where he served as Senior Personnel in the NSF MobilityFirst project. From September 2009 to April 2011, he has been a research associate and the deputy head of Computer Networks Group, Institute of Computer Science, University of Goettingen, Germany. He received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University in 2004 and 2009, respectively. He visited Stanford University (in 2007) and Microsoft Research Asia (2006-2008) as a visiting student. He served as a Nokia Visiting Professor at Aalto University in 2019. His research interests include online social networks, Internet architecture and mobile computing. He serves as an Associate Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Social Computing, an Associate Editor of IEEE Access, and an Editorial Board Member of the Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies (ETT). He served as a OC / TPC Member for many international conferences, including SOSP, WWW, IJCAI, SIGCOMM, AAAI, ECAI, DASFAA, IWQoS, NetSci, ICCCN, GLOBECOM and ICC. He is a senior member of the IEEE.