Yidong Chen

Yidong Chen (yidong@mail.nih.gov) received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Fudan University, Shanghai, China, in 1983 and 1986, respectively, and Ph.D. in imaging science from Rochester Institute of Technology, New York, in 1995. From 1986 to 1988, he was with the Department of Electronic Engineering of Fudan University as an assistant professor. During 1988 to 1989, he was a visiting scholar at the Department of Computer Engineering, Rochester Institute of Technology. From 1995 to 1996, he was with Hewlett Packard Company as a research engineer. Since 1996, he has been part of the microarray technology development effort at National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, as a staff scientist and associate investigator in the field of microarray image analysis and bioinformatics. Currently, he is a staff scientist at Genetics Branch of National Cancer Institute. His research interests include bioinformatics, biostatistics in genomic research, genetic data visualization, analysis and management, genetic network modeling, and biomedical image processing.