Before joining UMassD, he was a postdoctoral research associate at Brown University. He received his Ph.D. in Mathematics and M.S. in computer science from University of Minnesota in 2007, and B.S. degree in Mathematics from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 2002. Dr. Chen’s research area is numerical analysis and scientific computing, in particular discontinuous Galerkin finite element methods, hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin methods, reduced basis method and reduced basis element method. His research is currently supported by NSF.