Hello! I am Bo Chen. I am currently a Privacy Engineer at ByteDance. Prior to joining ByteDance, I earned a Ph.D. degree, majored in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Florida. I was under the supervision of Dr. Matthew Hale and was a member of the Control, Optimization, and Robotics Engineering (CORE) Lab. After my graduation of my Ph.D., I worked as a Postdoc at Georgia Institute of Technology and a data scientist at Geotab.

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.

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

News

[May 12th, 2026]: I am happy to announce that I am joining ByteDance as a privacy engineer! I truly appreciate everyone I met at Geotab, I’ve learn a lot from y’all! I hope all the best in your future endeavors!

[Jan. 6th 2025]: I am happy to share that I am joining Geotab as a data scientist! Huge thanks to my advisor Dr. Matthew Hale for the help and support along my journey in acedemia!

[May 9th, 2024]: I am happy to share that I’ve successfully defended my Ph.D. dissertation, and I am joining Georgia Tech as a Postdoc!

[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).