Chen Named 2025 Google Scholar

Beidi Chen has received the 2025 Google Scholar Award, which aims to support early-career professors who are pursuing research in fields relevant to Google.

Chen, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, was given the prestigious Machine Learning award for her proposal “Enhancing Long-Context Reasoning Abilities of Foundation Models.” The paper identifies three key challenges to improving long-context reasoning; the lack of high-quality long-context reasoning datasets, the architectural limitations of current transformer-based models, and the computational inefficiency of existing inference frameworks for long reasoning tasks.

“I am extremely honored to have received this award,” says Chen. “Being recognized and supported by Google underscores the importance of my research.”

While Chen’s research primarily focuses on efficient machine learning, specifically, she designs and optimizes algorithms and models on modern hardware to accelerate large machine learning systems. Her work has won a best paper runner-up at ICML 2022, a best paper award at IISA 2018, and a best paper award at USENIX LISA 2014. She was selected as a Rising Star in EECS by MIT in 2019 and UIUC in 2021.

For more information about this year's award recipients, visit the Google Research Scholar Program website.