Previously he was the head of computational proteomics at Myriad Proteomics, Inc. (now Prolexys Pharmaceuticals, Inc.) and bioinformatics computer scientist at Affymetrix, Inc. Dr. Chen has published many research papers in bioinformatics and presented talks on biological data management and systems biology at leading research institutes, universities, and conferences worldwide. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Minnesota and B.S. in biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Peking University, China.