Tianyi Chen

Tianyi Chen has been with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) since August 2019, and was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in June 2025. Dr. Chen is the inaugural recipient of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Best PhD Dissertation Award in 2020, a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award in 2021, and a recipient of the Amazon Research Award in 2022. He is also a co-author of the Best Student Paper Award at the NeurIPS Federated Learning Workshop in 2020, the IEEE Signal Processing Society Flagship Conference ICASSP in 2021, and the IEEE Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award in 2024. Dr. Chen's current research addresses the theoretical and algorithmic aspects of bilevel optimization and multi-objective optimization and their applications to AI and learning problems: meta-learning (now ICL), LLMs fine-tuning and alignment, and AI-integrated NextG wireless systems.