Professor
Department of MIS
College of BPA
University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona 85721
Phone: (520) 621-2748
Fax: (520) 621-2433
E-mail: hchen@bpa.arizona.edu
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is a Professor of Management Information Systems at the University of Arizona and head of the UA/MIS Artificial Intelligence Group. He is also a Visiting Senior Research Scientist at National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA).
He received an NSF Research Initiation Award in 1992, the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) Best Paper Award, and an AT&T Foundation Award in Science and Engineering in 1994 and 1995. He received the Ph.D. degree in Information Systems from New York University in 1989.
Chen has published more than 30 articles covering semantic retrieval, search algorithms, knowledge discovery, and collaborative computing in publications such as Communications of the ACM, IEEE COMPUTER, Journal of the American Society for Information Science, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE EXPERT, and Advances in Computers.
He is a PI of the Illinois Digital Library Initiative project, funded by NSF/ARPA/NASA, 1994-1998, and has received several grants from NSF, DARPA, NASA, NIH, and NCSA.
He is the guest editor of IEEE Computer special issue on "Building Large-Scale Digital Libraries" and the Journal of the American Society for Information Science special issue on "Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Emerging Information Systems Applications." His recent work was featured at Science ("Computation Cracks `Semantic Barriers' Between Databases," June 7, 1996), NCSA Access Magazine, HPCWire, and Business Week.