Biography
Dr. Min Chen is an assistant professor of the Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is also a faculty member affiliated with the UW Data Science Institute, the Nelson Institute Center of Climatic Research, the Department of Geography, and the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences. He is an editor of the Journal of Geophysical Research – Machine Learning and Computation, and an editor of Earth System Dynamics.
Before joining UW-Madison, he was a research scientist at the Joint Global Change Research Institute, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and an adjunct professor of the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at the University of Maryland, College Park.
He received his Ph.D. from Purdue University majoring in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, and his M.S. and B.S. degrees in Remote sensing & GIS and Computer Sciences, respectively, both from Beijing Normal University in China. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University and a Babara McClintock Fellow at the Carnegie Institution for Sciences at Stanford University.