Pin-Yu Chen
Pin-Yu Chen is a principal research scientist at IBM's research center in Yorktown Heights, New York, where his recent research focuses on adversarial machine learning of neural networks for robustness and safety. He received a PhD in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of Michigan in 2016. In 2022 he received the UAI Best Paper Runner-Up Award and joined the editorial board of Transactions on Machine Learning Research. The IJCAI Computers and Thought Award went to him in 2023. In 2025 he became an IEEE Fellow and received the IEEE Signal Processing Society Industry Young Professional Leadership Award.
Timeline
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2010
A GLOBECOM gold paper award
In 2010 the IEEE GLOBECOM Gold Best Paper Award goes to him.
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2016
A PhD from Michigan
The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, grants him a PhD in electrical engineering and computer science and an M.A. in statistics in 2016.
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2022
A UAI runner-up award
The UAI 2022 Best Paper Runner-Up Award goes to him. Transactions on Machine Learning Research adds him to its editorial board in 2022.
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2023
The IJCAI Computers and Thought Award
The IJCAI Computers and Thought Award comes to him in 2023.
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2025
An IEEE Fellow and SPS award
In 2025 the IEEE Signal Processing Society gives him its Industry Young Professional Leadership Award. He is an IEEE Fellow, a status held since 2025.
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As of October 2026
A principal research scientist at IBM
IBM's research center in Yorktown Heights, New York, employs him as a principal research scientist, where his recent research focuses on adversarial machine learning of neural networks for robustness and safety.
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