Dr Tianyi Chen has been with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) as an assistant professor since August 2019. Prior to joining RPI, he received the doctoral degree from the University of Minnesota under the supervision of Prof. Georgios B. Giannakis. Dr. Chen’s current research focuses on the theory and application of optimisation, Machine Learning, and statistical signal processing to problems emerging in data science and wireless communication networks.