Biography
Born in Taichung, Taiwan, Peter Chen received a B.S. in electrical engineering in 1968 at the National Taiwan University, and a Ph.D. in computer science/applied mathematics at the Harvard University in 1973. In 1970, he worked one summer at IBM. After graduated from Harvard, he worked one year at Honeywell and one summer at Digital Equipment Corporation.
From 1974 to 1978 Chen was an Assistant Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management. From 1978 to 1983 he was Associate Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA Management School). From 1983 to 2011 Chen held the position of M. J. Foster Distinguished Chair Professor of Computer Science at Louisiana State University and, for several years, Adjunct Professor in its Business School and Medical School (Shreveport). During this time period, he was a Visiting Professor once at Harvard in '89-'90 and three times at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (EECS Dept. in '86-'87, Sloan School in '90-'91, and Division of Engineering Systems in 06-'07). Since 2008, he has been Honorary Chair Professor in the Institute of Service Science at National Tsing Hua University. Currently, Chen is a Distinguished Career Scientist and faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University.
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