He received his B.S. and M.S. in aerospace engineering from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in China. He obtained his PhD degree in mechanical engineering from Johns Hopkins University in 2005. After that he did his postdoctoral research in Los Alamos National Laboratory. After joining Purdue in 2008, he started a new experimental group to study various flow problems. Dr. Chen's research interests are in the area of applied fluid dynamics, including development of advanced flow diagnostic techniques, unsteady flow dynamics, dynamics and structures in stratified flows, and combined experimental-numerical study of industrial flows.