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Chaomei Chen
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Dr. Chaomei Chen is an Associate
Professor in the College of Information Science and Technology at Drexel
University. He is a Chang Jiang Scholar (visiting professor) at Dalian
University of Technology, China (2008-2011) and has been a visiting professor
at Brunel University in the United Kingdom (2002-2008). He received his
bachelor degree in mathematics from Nankai
University, China, his master's degree in computation from the University of
Oxford and his doctorate in computer science from the University of
Liverpool. His research interests include information visualization, visual
analytics, knowledge domain visualization, mapping scientific frontiers, and
theories of scientific discoveries and creativity. Dr. Chen is the author of Turning
Points: The Nature of Creativity (Springer, 2011), Information
Visualization: Beyond the Horizon (Springer 2004, 2006) and Mapping
Scientific Frontiers: The Quest for Knowledge Visualization (Springer
2003). He is the founder and the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Information Visualization and an
editorial board member of Journal of Informetrics.
Dr. Chen has published over 170 peer-reviewed publications
in journals and conference proceedings in multiple disciplines of computer
science and information science, including Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences (PNAS), IEEE Computer, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
(TVCG), IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (CG&A), Journal
of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), Journal
of Informetrics (JOI), Information
Processing & Management (IP&M), and Scientometrics.
His work has been cited over 5,400
times on Google Scholar. He is the principal investigator of research
grants and contracts from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and other
government agencies and industrial sponsors such as Pfizer. His earlier
research was funded by the European Commission, the Engineering and Physical
Sciences Research Council (UK), and the Library and Information Commission
(UK). Dr. Chen created the widely used software CiteSpace
for visualizing and analyzing emerging trends in scientific literature. CiteSpace has been used by users in over 3,800 cities of
105 countries. Homepage: http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~cc345
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