C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Lehigh University. Before joining the Lehigh faculty, Dr. Chen was a postdoctoral research scientist working with Barry Honig at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, and the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics at Columbia University. He completed his doctoral and master's degrees with Lydia Kavraki at Rice University, in computer science, and his bachelor's degrees from Rutgers University in mathematics and computer science.