Hello! I am Bo Chen, a final-year Ph.D. student majoring in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Florida. I am under the supervision of Dr. Matthew Hale and am a member of the Control, Optimization, and Robotics Engineering (CORE) Lab. Prior to my Ph.D. study, I earned my Bachelor of Engineering degree in 2017 with a major in Aerospace Engineering from Northwestern Polytechnical University in China. I also obtained my Master of Science degree, specializing in Aerospace Engineering, from the University of Florida in 2019.

Research Interests: I am interested in developing novel privacy-enhanced tools to facilitate the sharing and analysis of sensitive data. My focus lies particularly in privatizing data generated by control-related systems, such as path planning systems and multiagent control systems, with a strong mathematical protection of differential privacy. Two of my recent projects have focused on privatizing inner-agent communications in cooperative multiagent decision-making problems, and on confidentially sharing networked disease-spreading models along with their corresponding basic reproduction numbers.

If you’re interested in learning more, click here for a list of my recent projects.

News

[Aug 1st, 2023]: My labmate Calvin Hawkins and I gave a poster talk at the Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI) on our paper, “Differential Privacy in Cooperative Multiagent Planning” (coauthored with Mustafa O. Karabag, Cyrus Neary, Matthew Hale, and Ufuk Topcu).

[Fed 20th, 2023]: I presented my paper, “Differential Privacy for Symbolic Systems with Application to Markov Chains” accepted by Automatica, on 2023 Southeast Control Conference (SECC) (coauthored with Kevin Leahy, Austin Jones, and Matthew Hale).