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Dr. Chi Hau Chen

Dr. Chi Hau Chen

Chi Hau Chen, Ph.D.

Chancellor Professor

  • Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Purdue University, 1965
  • M.S. in Electrical Engineering, University of Tennessee, 1962
  • B.S. in Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taiwan, 1959

Contact Information:

  • E-Mail: cchen@umassd.edu
  • Phone: 508.999.8475
  • Fax: 508.999.8489
  • Office: Dion Building, Room 317B

Biography:


Dr. Chi Hau Chen is Chancellor Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. He received his B.S.E.E. degree from National Taiwan University in 1959, M.S.E.E. degree from University of Tennessee at Knoxville in 1962 and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Purdue University in 1965. He worked in industry from 1965-68 in the statistical communications area before joining UMass Dartmouth in 1968.

During the past 41 years, Dr. Chen’s research has been mainly in the areas of pattern recognition and machine vision and their applications. At UMass Dartmouth, his work on statistical pattern recognition was supported by AFOSR from 1971-77, and the work on statistical image processing was funded by ONR from 1979-82. He also received research support from NASA, Army Materials Technology Laboratory, Army Research Office, NUSC at Newport and New London, Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, National Research Council, Transportation Research Board, as well as Analog Devices and Inspex. His current research interests include pattern recognition, image processing, neural networks, AI expert systems, time series analysis, with applications to geophysical , radar and underwater acoustics as well as industrial and medical ultrasound problems.

Dr. Chen was the Editor in Chief of Computer Engineering Series from McGraw-Hill Inc. Professional Publishing group. He has published 28 books including Fuzzy Logic and Neural Network Handbook which he edited and was published by McGraw-Hill publication in Jan. 1995. Dr. Chen has published 500 journal and conference papers and technical reports. He was an Associate Editor for IEEE Trans. on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 1985-2000, Associate Editor of International Journal on Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence since 1986.

Dr. Chen is a Life Fellow (2003) of the IEEE, Fellow (1988) of the IEEE, Fellow (1996) of the International Association of Pattern Recognition (IAPR), a member of ASEE, PRS, ASNT, INNS, AAAI, and SEG. He was on the Administrative Committee of IEEE SMC Society, and Chairman of ten IEEE sponsored workshops and symposiums. He served as director of NATO Advanced Study Institute and Advanced Research Workshop in 1978, 1982 and 1987. He was the principal investigator of two NATO Collaborative Research (With Polish Academy of Science) grants on pattern recognition and neural networks, 1994-1996, 2001-2002. He served as a director of Bay State Skills Corp. sponsored special institutes 1984 to 1989. Dr. Chen has served on the ONR and DoD Graduate Fellowship Review Panels 1989-1994, 2000-. Dr. Chen has been a consultant to AVCO, AS& E, ENDECCO Battelle Switzerland, O’Conner Research, U.S. Windpower, Inspex, AFGL, Metroplitan Machine Co., Prometheus, and Morningside, N.A. and Biscom. He has also consulted extensively with Air Force Geophysics Lab and Naval Underwater Systems. From 1988-1991, he consulted with Army Material Technology Lab on signal processing based high resolution ultrasonic nondestructive testing of materials. From 1994-1995 he consulted with Army Missile Command on the use of wavelet transforms in radar target identification. Currently he is collaborating with Brigham and Women’s Hospital Cardiovascular Division on automatic segmentation of intravascular ultrasound images.

Under Dr. Chen’s supervision, 78 graduate students have completed master’s thesis/project since 1975, and ten Ph.D. students received their degrees as of May 2008. Currently, he supervises three Master degree students in their project work. Dr. Chen is in charge of the Ultrasonic Signal Processing Laboratory and Machine Vision Laboratory of the ECE Department. The Machine Vision Lab. has recently completed a project with Inspex on semiconductor wafer inspection. Dr. Chen is also director of the Ultrasonic NDE Laboratory at the university’s Advanced Technology and Manufacturing Center (ATMC). The Ultrasonic NDE Lab. houses a Panametircs LSC Series Ultrasonic Scanning System.

Areas Of Interest:

  • Neural networks and time series analysis
  • Pattern recognition, signal and image processing
  • Remote sensing information processing
  • Signal processing and pattern recognition in life science problems
  • Signal processing application to ultrasonic NDE and underwater acoustics problems

Selected Publications:


The following are major book publications by Dr. Chen (out of a total of 28 books):

  • Statistical Pattern Recognition, author of the book; Spartan Books, Hayden Book Co., Rochelle Park, N.J., February 1973. Chinese edition published in 1980.


  • Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, editor of the book; Academic Press, Inc., New York, December 1976.


  • Computer-Aided Seismic Analysis and Discrimination, editor of the books; Elsevier Scientific Publishing Co., Amsterdam and New York, 1978.1982, 1984. Russian translation 1986.


  • Pattern Recognition and signal Processing, editor of the book; Sijthoff & Noordhoff International Publishers, The Netherlands; December 1978.


  • Digital Waveform Processing and Recognition, editor of the book and author of four chapters; CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, Florida, Jan. 1982.


  • Nonlinear Maximum Entropy Spectral Analysis Methods for Signal Recognition, author of the book; Research Studies Press, England, October 1982.


  • Issues in Acoustic Signal-Image Processing and Recognition, editor of the book and author of two chapters, NATO ASI Series F-1, Springer-Verlag, March 1983.


  • Signal Processing Handbook, editor of the book and author of two chapters; published in July 1988 by Marcel Dekker, Inc.


  • Signal Processing and Pattern Recognition in Nondestructive Evaluation of Materials, editor of the book, NATO ASI Series F-44, Springer-Verlag, 1988. Reprint edition published in China in 1990.


  • Computer Engineering Handbook, editor of the book, McGraw-Hill, Inc. July 1992.


  • Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition and their Applications, editor of the book, World Scientific Publishing Co.(WSP), December 1991; Second printing 1994.


  • Handbook of Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision, chief editor of the book with co-editors L.F. Pau and P.S.P. Wang, World Scientific Publishing Co., (WSP), First edition, 1993. Paper back 1995, Second edition 1999, Third edition 2005.


  • Fuzzy Logic and Neural Network Handbook, editor of the book, McGraw-Hill, January 1996. The book is co-published by IEEE Press Feb. 1996.


  • Information Processing for Remote Sensing, editor of the book, WSP, Dec. 1999.


  • Frontiers of Remote Sensing Information Processing, editor of the book, WSP, July 2003.


  • Signal and Image Processing for Remote Sensing, editor, Taylor Fransics/CRC Press 2006.


  • Ultrasonics and Advanced Methods of Nondestructive Testing and Material Characterization, editor of the book, WSP, 2007.


  • Digital Image Processing: an algorithmic approach with MATLAB, Chapman Hall/CRC Press, June 2009 (co-authored with Uvais Quidwai).


  • Handbook of Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision, editor of the book, World Scientific Publishing, Jan. 2010.



The following are Dr. Chen’s most recent journal publications:

  • C.H. Chen, “Remote sensing Information processing”, in Encyclopedia of Computer Science, and Engineering, edited by B. Wah, Wiley, Sept. 2008.


  • Chi Hau Chen and Pei-Gee Peter Ho, “Statistical pattern recognition in remote sensing”, invited paper, Pattern Recognition Journal, vol. 41, No. 9, Sept. 2008, pp. 2731-2741.


  • Haixiang Xu, Chi Hau Chen and Xizhi Shi, “Using the penalized mutual information criterion in the multivariate Edgeworth-expanded Gaussian mixture density for blind separation of convolutive post-nonlinear mixtures”, Journal of Circuits Systems and Signal Processing, Springer, vol. 26, no. 5, Oct. 2007, pp. 1-20.


  • Yingyu Zhang, Xizhi Shi and Chi Hau Chen; “A Gaussian mixture model for underdetermined independent component analysis”; Signal Processing, Volume 86, Issue 7, July 2006, Pages 1538-1549.


  • Haixiang Xu, Chi Hau Chen, Xizhi Shi, “Using Penalized Mutual Information Criterion in Multivariate Edgeworth -expanded Gaussian mixture kernels for Blind Separation of Convolutive Post Nonlinear Mixtures”, Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing, a journal of Springer-Verlag, May 2007.


  • C.H. Chen and Xiaojun Wu, “The application of EM algorithm to thickness estimation of thin layer materials”, e-Journal of Nondestructive Testing, July 2006 issue.

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