Jun Chen received the B.S. degree in Electronic Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2001, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Cornell University in 2004 and 2006, respectively. He was a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Coordinated Science Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from September 2005 to July 2006, and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center from July 2006 to August 2007. Since September 2007 he has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at McMaster University, where he is currently an Associate Professor. He held the title of the Barber-Gennum Chair in Information Technology from 2008 to 2013 and the Joseph Ip Distinguished Engineering Fellow from 2016 to 2018. He was a recipient of the Josef Raviv Memorial Postdoctoral Fellowship (2006), the Early Researcher Award from the Province of Ontario (2010), and the IBM Faculty Award (2010).  He served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory from 2014 to 2016.