Yang Chen is a Professor within the College of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at Fudan University and a Vice Director of the Shanghai Key Lab of Intelligent Information Processing. He leads the Big Data and Networking (DataNET) group at Fudan University. 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 was a Nokia Visiting Professor at Aalto University in 2019. His research interests include social computing & networking, interdisciplinary network analysis (for example, online/mobile social networks), network architectures and protocols, urban computing, and AI for Social Science. He serves as a Senior Associate Editor of the ACM Transactions on Social Computing. He served as an OC / TPC Member for many international conferences, including SOSP, SIGCOMM, MobiSys, WWW, MM, IJCAI, AAAI, ECAI, DASFAA, IWQoS, ICCCN, GLOBECOM and ICC. He is a senior member of the IEEE/ACM/CCF, and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.