About me

Zijian Chen PhD Candidate (advisor: Archana Venkataraman), Neural Systems Analysis Laboratory; affiliated with Center for Brain Recovery Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University [CV up to 10/2025] Email me if you need a more up-to-date and detailed CV.

Contact

Address: 8 St. Mary’s Street, PHO 409, Boston, MA 02215

Email: Primary: zijianc [AT] bu [DOT] edu; Secondary: zijian [DOT] chen [AT] wisc [DOT] edu.

Research Interest

Graph and Manifold Learning; Statistical Signal Analysis; Stochastic Modeling

Math that I use (and am interested in): Probability, PDEs, a bit of (applied) Discrete Differential Geometry and Algebraic Topology

Education

• Ph.D.(ing) in Electrical Engineering (2023 - ??)
  Boston University

• M.A. in Mathematics (2021 - 2023)
  University of Wisconsin - Madison (Advisor: Hao Shen)

• B.S. in Statistics (2018 - 2022)
  East China Normal University

   

  Bachelor minor in Mathematics (2020 - 2022)
  Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Miscellaneous

• Languages I speak: Cantonese(native), Mandarin(fluent), English(proficient)

• My Linkedin page.

And maybe some fun facts…

• I enjoy flying (both as pilots and as passengers). I fly Piper Warriors myself. My base is KBED, which is the second busiest airport in New England after KBOS.

• I also sail and I drive – so basically I manage all transportation modes, except outer space ones.

• I love inverse engineering, including:

  • video game design philosophies and implementation with Unreal Engine. For example, auto-targeting; dark vision in Dishonoured 2.

  • video game soundtrack composing with Logic Pro.