Bin Chen

Bin Chen is a researcher at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), focusing on optical communications, signal processing, and information theory. He holds a PhD from University College Dublin (2015), supported by the China Scholarship Council and Science Foundation Ireland. His roles include Postdoc positions in the Signal Processing Systems (SPS) and Electro-Optical Communication Systems (ECO) groups at TU/e, and a current guest researcher affiliation. His research emphasizes geometric shaping, coded modulation, and nonlinear channel mitigation in optical systems.

• Education:
  • B.Sc. Electronic Information Science and Technology, Hefei University of Technology (2010)
  • Ph.D. Electronics and Communications Engineering, University College Dublin (2015)
• Affiliations:
  • Signal Processing Systems Group (SPS)
  • Electro-Optical Communication Systems (ECO) Group
  • ICT Lab

Research interests include optical communication systems, cooperative communications, channel coding, and network coding. Key achievements include over 60 peer-reviewed publications and awards such as the Asia Communications and Photonics Conference Best Paper Awards (2018, 2022). He has contributed to projects like PATRIOT (coded modulation optimization) and NLCAP (nonlinear capacity maximization in optical channels).

Grants and collaborations span EU-funded initiatives and industry partnerships. His work on multidimensional constellations and fiber nonlinearity models has advanced long-haul transmission systems. Current projects explore neural network-based demappers and hybrid decoding techniques.