Dr. Cailian Chen is currently a Distinguished Professor of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P. R. China. She is the deputy director of Center for Intelligent Networking and Cooperative Control (i-WiN) in the university.

Prof. Chen’s research interests include networking, computing and control for Internet of Vehicles, mobile sensing and intelligent transportation systems, and computational intelligence. She has authored 3 research monographs and over 100 referred international journal papers. She is the inventor of more than 30 patents. Dr. Chen received the prestigious "IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems Outstanding Paper Award" in 2008, and 5 conference best paper awards. She won the Second Prize of National Natural Science Award from the State Council of China in 2018. She was honored “National Outstanding Young Researcher” by NSF of China in 2020 and “Changjiang Young Scholar” in 2015.

Prof. Chen has been actively involved in various professional services. She serves/served as Deputy Editor of National Science Open (2022-), and Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology(2015-2019, 2022-2024), IET Cyber-Physical Systems: Theory and Applications(2020-2022), and Peer-to-peer Networking and Applications (Springer). She also served as TPC Chair of 2019 International Symposium on Autonomous Systems (ISAS’19), Symposium TPC Co-chair of IEEE Globecom 2016, Track Co-chair of VTC2016-fall and VTC2020-fall.