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Yiran Chen

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Senior Strategic Advisor, Eastlink Capital

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Eastlink Capital
Title
Senior Strategic Advisor
Role
Advisor
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Record updated 18 September 2026

About

Prof. Yiran Chen is a Senior Strategic Advisor of Eastlink Capital. He is the John Cocke Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University, and the director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) AI Institute for Edge Computing Leveraging Next-generation Networks (Athena), one of the 25 National AI Institutes in the United States

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Education
He received his B.S. and M.S. from Tsinghua University, and Ph.D. from Purdue University.Source (opens in a new tab)

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