Dr. Chen have been working in multi-disciplinary domains for two decades, starting from an engineer, a 3D illustrator and animator, then a web designer and Internet system developer, finally an academic researcher and educator. In early 90s He pioneered in China to bring 3D modeling, rendering and animation into architecture design. Dr. Chen started to develop Internet-based applications in Canada since 2000, ranging from website design, mobile phone SMS platforms, information management systems, Flash online games, E-commerce, to social network applications, collaborated with professionals in different domains and communicated with different kinds of clients.
His research covers interdisciplinary domains of Computer Graphics and Human-Computer Interaction, such as Information Visualization, Visual Analytics, Virtual Reality, and AI in Computer Graphics. He seeks to design, model, and construct new forms of interaction in visualization and system design, by which the system can minimize its influence on design and analysis, and become a true free extension of human’s brain and hand.