Chen Chun-Hsien

Chun-Hsien CHEN is Associate Professor (tenured), Director of the Design Stream, and Professor-in-Charge of the Design & Human Factors Lab in the School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He received his BS degree in Industrial Design from National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, MS and Ph.D. degrees in Industrial Engineering from the University of Missouri-Columbia, USA. He has several years of product design & development experience in the industry. His teaching and research interests are design science in product design and development; engineering/design informatics for managing/supporting digital design & manufacturing; and human factors and management of human performance. He has more than 250 publications in these areas. Prof. Chen has served as a Technical Reviewer for National Science and Technology Awards (Singapore), National Research Foundation of Korea, The Knowledge Foundation (KK) HÖG 16 Project, Sweden, and a Judge for Pin Up Design Awards (South Korea), an Advisory Board member for ISTE (International Society of Transdisciplinary Engineering), an Advisory Committee member for the various international conferences held in USA, Europe, Brazil, China, Korea, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Prof. Chen has been appointed as Editor-in-Chief of Advanced Engineering Informatics (ADVEI), a SCI journal published by Elsevier (UK), since January 2013. Besides ADVEI, he is/was an editorial board member of Recent Patents on Engineering, Journal of Kansei, Heliyon, etc. He is/was a Shanghai Eastern Scholar (2011 – 2014), a Guest Professor of Tianjin University (since 2013), a Visiting Professor of National Cheng Kung University (2011), a Guest Professor of Shanghai Maritime University (since 2006), and Chaoyang University of Technology (2008 – 2010).

Research interests

• Collaborative Product Design and Development
• Consumer-oriented Product Design
• Kansei Engineering / Emotional Design
• Management of Product Development
• Design Science, Theory and Methodology
• Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) Systems
• Engineering Informatics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) Applications

Academic history:

• Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA,1996.
• M.S. in Industrial Engineering, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA, 1991.
• B.S. in Industrial Design, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, 1984.