He specializes in reliable and high performance scientific computing, numerical algorithms and software, and algorithm-based fault tolerance. He has published over 80 papers with many in highly competitive conferences and journals such as HPDC, PPoPP, SC, ICS, IPDPS, TPDS, TC, JPDC, PARCO, SIMAX, SISC, and IBMRD. He has received a CAREER Award from the U.S. National Science Foundation and a Best Paper Award from the International Supercomputing Conference. Dr. Chen is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a Life Member of the ACM. He currently serves as Subject Area Editor for Elsevier Parallel Computing journal and Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems.　