He obtained his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering in 2008. He had a post-doctoral experience at Department of Epidemiology, Division of Cancer Prevention, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center from Nov. 2008 to Nov. 2011. Dr. Chen has been awarded grants from National Natural Science Foundation of China, Doctoral Fund of Ministry of Education of China, and Zhejiang Key Science and Technology Innovation Team. He published nearly 20 peer reviewed journal articles. He has also applied 10 patents and 6 of them have been issued. He is a regular reviewer of many journals, such as Cancer Research, Cancer, Lung Cancer, PLoS One, and International Journal of Cancer.