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Li Chen, Ph.D.

Associate Professor  

Department of Computer Science and Information Technology

University of the District of Columbia

4200 Connecticut Avenue, N.W.

Washington, DC 20008

Office 42/112-A

Office Tel: (202) 274-6301

Email: lchen@udc.edu

 
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Education
 Ph.D.  University of Bedfordshire (Renamed from U of Luton, Luton, UK), 2001. Advisor: Dr. Osei Adjei.
  PhD Thesis: lambda-connectedness and  its application to image segmentation, recognition, and reconstruction.
MS of Computer Science, Utah State University (Logan, USA), 1995.  Advisor: Dr. Don Cooley 
MS Thesis: Possibility functions based fuzzy neural networks and their applications to image processing
BS of Computer Science, Wuhan University (Wuhan, China), 1982.  Advisor:  Li Qrong-Zhang 
  BS Dissertation: Matrix representations of some combinatorial problems and their applications.

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Biography
 
Li Chen has mixed features of computer science and software engineering. In the past twenty five years, he has worked as a professional software engineer, while he retaining his career as an amateur computer scientist. He continued to develop computer software while working as a professional computer scientist and an educator.

He has published over 50 research papers in several areas of computer science and applied mathematics in research journals and conference proceedings including the Chinese Science Bulletin, IEEE Tran.on SMC, Soft Computing, Information Sciences, and Chinese Journal of Computers. He has developed, alone or jointly, over a dozen software systems or packages in various computer systems using different computer languages including Unix, PDP, IBM-PC, C/C++, FORTRAN, BASIC, TOOLBOOK, X-Windows, MS-Windows, etc.

His most important theoretical contributions include:

His software developments include:
  • The first special software system for lithology classification and oil-gas prediction in China.  ( He was the project leader, 1990.)
  • World leading Spiricon M-square 101 for the laser beam propagation analysis system. (He was the key programmer, 1995.)
  • World leading Spiricon LBA-PC for the laser beam profile analysis system. (He was one of the key programmers, 1997.)
  • The World leading video compressor by SorensonMedia, SorensonVideo 3 for QuickTime. (He was one of the key programmers who completed the pre-alpha version, 2000).
Chen has received many awards and honors. The most remarkable was the "Top 100 Young Scientist Award Fund" in China in 1987. He was also "a record holder" for the youngest person to publish a regular research paper alone in Chinese Journal of Computers, the best journal in computer science in China during that time in 1984 when he was 23 years old. This paper was reviewed by the Mathematical Review and Soviet Math Abstract. Chen wrote his first research paper in 1980 when he was 19 years old. The paper won the Student Research Paper Award of Wuhan University in 1981. It was published later and reviewed by the German Math Abstract (Zbl).

Chen was a good Chinese flute player in his home county of Lishui, China when he was a high school student. He still likes to play the instrument occasionally. He likes classical music, but he can hardly understand it. He sometimes plays Ping-Pong, but he can be defeated easily. He plays Chinese Chess sometimes and his skill in this event is a little bit better than his Ping-Pong technique.

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