# Jian Chen

> Director of Engineering; Chief Architect of Cloud Server Infrastructure; Director of CXL, UCIe

Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/jianchen1

Member of CXL Board of Directors
Member of UCIe Board of Directors

Expertise on performance modeling and workload characterization, with recent focus on HPC, big data analytics, search engine and machine learning workload characterization, as well as RPC/MPI-based cluster fabric modeling. In-depth knowledge in cloud computing IaaS/PaaS, x86 and network virtualization. 

Extensive work and research experience on circuit/SoC design, computer architecture, large-scale cluster and supercomputing systems. 

Hands-on experiences on machine-learning/deep-learning application development, as well as deep-learning hardware accelerator design. 

Experience on managing and leading multiple projects to fruition. Good communication skills.

## Work Experience
### Senior Staff Engineer, Director of Engineering, Chief Architect of Cloud Server Infrastructure @ Alibaba Group
Jan 2021 – Present | Sunnyvale, California, United States

### Staff Engineer,  Chip Architect @ Alibaba Group
Jan 2017 – Present

### Performance Architect @ Intel Corporation
Jan 2011 – Jan 2017 | Hillsboro, Oregon

### Research Intern @ Texas Instruments
Jan 2008 – Jan 2008
Participated in a research project to exploit spatial parallelism in video encoding/decoding with heterogeneous multicores. Implemented and analyzed entropy encoding (CABAC) for H.264. Proposed and implemented custom instructions for the entropy node with SystemC.

### R&D Engineer @ IBM, China Research Lab
Jan 2005 – Jan 2005
Participated in designing a media coprocessor with SIMD architecture, which could achieve H.264 SD decoding under 300MHz. Evaluated and implemented Vector ALU Instructions.


## Education
### Ph.D in Computer Engineering
The University of Texas at Austin

### MS in Electrical Engineering
Shanghai Jiao Tong University

### BS in Elctrical Engineering
Shanghai Jiao Tong University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jian-chen-654151b
- Portfolio: http://lca.ece.utexas.edu/people/jchen/

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Last updated: 2026-04-12