From June 2000 to June 2002, he was a joint Ph.D student in Fraunhofer Institute for Graphics, Darmstadt, Germany and received his Ph.D degree in July 2002. From July. 2006 to Sep. 2008, Dr.Wei Chen was a visiting scholar at Purdue University, working in PURPL with Prof.David S. Ebert. He has performed research in computer graphics and visualization and published more than 60 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers in the last five years. His current research interests include scientific visualization, visual analytics and bio-medical image computing.