Minghua Chen received his B.Eng. and M.S. degrees from the Dept. of EE at Tsinghua University in 1999 and 2001, respectively. He received his Ph.D. degree from the Dept. of EECS at UC Berkeley in 2006. He spent one year visiting Microsoft Research Redmond as a Postdoc Researcher. He joined the Dept. of Information Engineering, the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2007 as an Assistant Professor. He is also an Adjunct Associate Professor in Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School in 2011-2014. He received the Eli Jury Doctoral Thesis award from UC Berkeley in 2007, the ICME Best Paper Award in 2009, the IEEE Trans. on Multimedia Best Paper Award in 2009, and the ACM Multimedia Best Paper Award in 2012. His current research interests include smart (micro) grids, energy-efficient data centers, distributed and stochastic network optimization and control, multimedia networking, p2p networking, wireless networking, multi-level trust data privacy, network coding and secure network communications.

Energy efficient data centers Secure and efficient smart grids Delay-sensitive multimedia networking with network coding Distributed and stochastic network optimization and control Peer-to-Peer and wireless networking Secure network communications