Dr. Jin Chen is an Associate Professor in the
Department of
Internal Medicine,
Department
of Computer Science, the
University of Kentucky (UK). He
received B.E. in Computer Science from
Southeast
University (SEU, formerly known as Nanjing Institute of
Technology) in Nanjing, China in 1997. After graduation,
he had worked as a senior software engineer in the Information
Center of the
State
Grid Jiangsu Electric Power Company for five years. He
obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the
National University of
Singapore (NUS) under the supervision of
Dr. Wynne Hsu,
Dr. Mong
Li Lee, and
Dr. See-Kiong Ng
in 2007. After that, he joined the bioinformatics laboratory of
Dr.
Seung Y. Rhee at the
Carnegie Institution
for Science,
Stanford as a postdoctoral
research associate from 2007 to 2009. He was an Assistant
Professor in the
Department
of Energy Plant Research Laboratory (PRL),
Department of
Computer Science and Engineering,
Michigan State University (MSU)
before joining UK.
The research in the Chen Lab focuses on
informatics
engineering
applied to the field of
health care
and
biological
sciences. In the last decade, the multidisciplinary team
has developed computer algorithms and clinically applicable
tools on
omics
data analysis,
phenotype
data inter-functional clustering,
medical
imaging standardization,
ontology
development,
phenotype
data quality control,
emergent
phenomenon identification, interactive visualization of
big health data, and so on. These tools have been used to better
understand clinical and biological data such as radiological
images, brain signals, longitudinal medical records, and plant
photosynthesis phenotype data. The Chen Lab has published
more
than 75 papers in the domain of computer science,
biomedical informatics, biological sciences, and medicine. Dr.
Chen's research has been supported by the National Institutes of
Health (NIH), the National Science Foundation (NSF), and the
Department of Energy (DOE).
