Office: 1.542 Biotechnology, Science and Engineering (BSE)
Phone: 210-458-7076; Fax: 210-458-5947
Personal Home Page: http://engineering.utsa.edu/~pchen/pchen1.html
Email: Philip.Chen@utsa.edu
Short Biography for Dr. C. L. Philip Chen
Dr. Chen received his M.S. degree from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1985, and Ph.D. degree from Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, in 1988. He was a visiting assistant professor at the School of Engineering and Technology, Purdue University, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1988-1989. Since September 1989, he has been with the Computer Science and Engineering Department, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, as an assistant, an associate, and a full professor. Since September 2002, he has joined, as a full Professor, the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Texas at San Antonio, where he has been the Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies and Interim Chair. Currently he is the Department Chair.
Dr. Chen has been a visiting research scientist, at the Materials Directorate, Wright Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. He has been a senior research fellow sponsored by the National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences. He was on sabbatical leave to Purdue University and Case Western Reserve University from Fall 1996 to Fall 1997, a visiting professor to Beijing Normal University and XinJiang University, Summer 2000, Beijing Institute of Technology, 2006, a chair professor of National Chung Hsing University, 2009-2011. He also has been a research faculty fellow for Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and NASA Glenn Research Center for several years. His research interests and projects, supported by the NSF, Air Force Office Scientific Research and the U.S. Air Force, Office of Naval Research, NASA, and State of Ohio, include computer networking, neural networks, fuzzy-neural systems, intelligent systems, robotics, and CAD/CAM. His current research areas include design computational intelligent systems, networking, and video data indexing, retrieval, and communications; and a research project funded by the NASA Glenn Research Center on data mining on aircraft flight and maintenance data, aircraft engine life prediction, life extending control, diagnosis and prognosis, and health monitoring. As a result of his research contribution and academic recognition, he was elected to a Fellow of the IEEE.
Dr. Chen has been involving in professional service for twenty years. He has served as a member of organizing committee for many IEEE conferences under different capacities, including IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, IEEE WCCI, IEEE Int'l Conf. on Intelligent Robotics and Systems (IROS), IEEE Int'l Conf. on SMC, IEEE Int'l Conf. on System of Systems. Notably, he also has been a Conference Co-Chair of the International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks in Engineering (ANNIE), 1995 and 1996; the Program Co-Chairs of 2006 IEEE/SMC Int’l Conference on System of Systems Engineering (SoSE); General Co-Chair of 2008 IEEE Int'l Conference on Secure Systems Integration and Reliability Improvement (SSIRI 2008); and General Chair of 2009 IEEE Int'l Conf. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics. Currently, he is the Vice President on Technical Activities in Systems Science and Engineering of IEEE SMC Society, where he has been a member of Board of Governors, the Treasurer; and serves as a Distinguished Lecturer, an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on SMC-C and IEEE Systems Journal. He is the founding faculty advisor of the IEEE Computer Society Student Chapter while at Wright State University and the founding Chair of IEEE SMCS Central Texas Section; founding co-chairs of three SMCS Technical Committees (SoS, Enterprise Information Systems, and Information Assurance). With this recognition, he received Outstanding Contribution Award from IEEE SMCS in 2008. Dr. Chen is a member of Tau Beta Pi and Eta Kappa Nu honor societies and has been the faculty advisor for Tau Beta Pi Engineering honor society. In addition, he is an ABET (Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology Education) program evaluator for Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, and Software Engineering programs.
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