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Connections to Research and Academia

Dr. Yan Chen has close cooperation relations with Anhui MapDoc Infotech Co., Ltd. [安徽迈普德康信息科技有限公司] and the Water Resources Research Institute of Shandong Province [山东省水利科学研究院].

Anhui MapDoc Infotech Co., Ltd. [安徽迈普德康信息科技有限公司]

Anhui MapDoc Infotech Co., Ltd. is a pioneering science and technology enterprise established by the young scientists and technicians of the Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth of Chinese Academy of Sciences [中国科学院遥感与数字地球研究所] and the University of Science and Technology of China [中国科学技术大学]. The company is mainly engaged in professional software development of Geographic Information System (GIS), hardware development of GPS terminal products, embedded system research, geographic information value-added services and remote sensing image processing.

Water Resources Research Institute of Shandong Province [山东省水利科学研究院]

Founded in 1957, the Water Resources Research Institute of Shandong Province is affiliated with the Water Resources Department of Shandong Province [山东省水利厅]. It is a public welfare scientific research institution mainly focusing on basic research of water conservancy technology and application. Its main business areas include water resources assessment, development and utilization, water ecology and water environment protection, soil and water conservation, engineering quality detection and control, hydraulic experimental research, foundation engineering and dam seepage prevention, hydraulic engineering construction and management and so on.

Memberships in Program Committees and Reviewing

1. Member of Program Committee: Special Session on Benchmarking of Computational Intelligence Algorithms (BOCIA'21) at the 2021 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2021), June 28-July 1, 2021 in Kraków, Poland
2. Reviewer: Applied Soft Computing, ISSN: 1568-4946, Elsevier Journal

Work Experience

• Researcher
  • When: since 2019-03 (ongoing)
  • Where: Institute of Applied Optimization [应用优化研究所], School of Artificial Intelligence and Big Data [人工智能与大数据学院] of the Hefei University [合肥学院] in Hefei [合肥], Anhui [安徽], China [中国]
  • What: industry collaboration, research, teaching, and supervising students
• Internship
  • When: 2012-12 – 2014-07
  • Where: Water Resource Research Institute of Shandong Province [山东省水利科学研究院] in Jinan [济南], Shandong [山东], China [中国]
  • What: hydrological modeling and information management
• Internship
  • When: 2010-09 – 2011-09
  • Where: Anhui MAPDOC Infotech Co., Ltd. [安徽迈普德康信息科技有限公司] in Hefei [合肥], Anhui [安徽], China [中国]
  • What: mapping and secondary developing of GIS

Education and Training

• Doctorate [博士]
  • When: 2014-10 – 2019-02
  • Where: Spatial Information Management and Modelling Department, School of Spatial Planning, TU Dortmund (Technische Universität Dortmund) [多特蒙德工业大学] in Dortmund [多特蒙德], North Rhine-Westphalia [北莱茵-威斯特法伦州], Germany [德国]
• Master [硕士]
  • When: 2011-09 – 2014-07
  • Where: China University of Mining and Technology [中国矿业大学] in Xuzhou [徐州], Jiangsu [江苏], China [中国]
• Bachelor [学士]
  • When: 2007-09 – 2011-07
  • Where: Anhui University of Science and Technology [安徽理工大学] in Huai’nan [淮南], Anhui [安徽省], China

• Key Scientific Research Foundation of the Education Department of Province Anhui [安徽省教育厅高校自然科学基金], China. 面向复杂高分遥感影像智能解译的动态路由胶囊网络端到端语义分割方法研究. 2021 to 2022. Principal Investigator: Dr. Yan Chen

• Integrated Urban Planning for Post Mining Regions – The Case Study of Xuzhou City Region, China, 2017. Conducted at TU Dortmund, Germany by Dr. Yan Chen.

• 煤层气田地面集输产出水数据算法分析与集成 (项目编号: 2014060030, 中国矿业大学, 2014). Participant: Dr. Yan Chen.

• 国际科技合作项目“变化气候下胶东半岛水资源风险抵御与管理技术合作研究 (编号: 2012DFG22140，山东省水利科学研究院, 2013). Participant: Dr. Yan Chen.

• 张坊地区遥感地质解译与裂隙网络模型研究 (编号: 201206047, 中国矿业大学, 2012). Participant: Dr. Yan Chen