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Dr. Chen is Deputy Director and a Senior Research Scientist with CIESIN, the Center for International Earth Science Information Network, a unit of the Earth Institute (EI) at Columbia University. He manages the Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC), a data center in NASA's Earth Observing System Data and Information System. He is currently Secretary-General of CODATA and an ex officio member of the Task Group on Data and Scenario Support for Impacts and Climate Analysis (TGICA) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Dr. Chen serves as CIESIN's Technical Representative to the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and is a member of the Scientific Advisory Council of the Meadowlands Environmental Research Institute (MERI) of the New Jersey Meadowlands Commission.
Dr. Chen manages several cooperative agreements with the U.S. Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) on spatial data management and has recently completed a project on managing geospatial electronic records with the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC). He co-led a major collaborative project on the assessment of global natural disaster risks with the Center for Hazards and Risk Research at Columbia University, the Hazard Management Unit of the World Bank, and other partners. Dr. Chen coordinated CIESIN's spatial analysis and mapping support to the Millennium Development Project led by EI Director Jeffrey Sachs and oversees other projects on poverty mapping, sustainability indicators, and public health applications of Earth science data.
Dr. Chen received his Ph.D. in geography from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and holds Masters and Bachelors degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
For further information, see: http://www.ciesin.columbia.edu/chen.html.