Dr. Haonan Chen

Haonan Chen has been a faculty member in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Colorado State University (CSU) since August 2020. He is also an Affiliate Faculty with the Data Science Research Institute (DSRI) at CSU and an Affiliate Scientist with the NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory (PSL). Before joining the CSU faculty, he worked at the NOAA/PSL as a National Research Council Research Associate, and then a Radar, Satellite, and Precipitation Research Scientist. His research interests span a broad range of remote sensing and multidisciplinary data science, including radar and satellite observations of natural disasters, polarimetric radar systems and networking, multiscale hydrometeorological data fusion in smart city applications, big data analytics, and deep learning. He has authored over 100 peer-reviewed journal articles in these areas.

Dr. Chen was a recipient of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Award, the Ralph E Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award, the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS) Early Career Award, and the Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Program (YIP) Award.  He served as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology,  URSI Radio Science Bulletin, and IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, and a Guest Editor for Earth Systems and Environment.