Dr. Chen holds a joint appointment with the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Center for Nanosensors Technology (CNT) since November 2002. Before joining the University of Alaska Fairbanks, he spent nearly three years as a post-doctoral researcher at the Computational Mechanics Center at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He holds a Ph.D. Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. His hometown is Taipei, Taiwan, where he obtained his M. S. and B. S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the National Taiwan University.