Chen Kun-shan (; born 1 October 1960) is a Taiwanese

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. He is a fellow of the

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Early life and education

Chen was born and raised in

Taichung City Taichung (, Wade–Giles: '), officially Taichung City, is a special municipality in central Taiwan. Taichung is Taiwan's second-largest city, with more than 2.85 million residents, making it the largest city in Central Taiwan. It serves as th ...

Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia. The main geography of Taiwan, island of Taiwan, also known as ''Formosa'', lies between the East China Sea, East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocea ...

. He graduated from

National Taipei University of Technology National Taipei University of Technology (Taipei Tech; ) is a public university in Taipei, Taiwan. It is a member of the Global Research & Industry Alliance (Gloria) of the Ministry of Science and Technology of the Republic of China, Ministry of ...

with a bachelor's degree in

electrical engineering Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems that use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the l ...

and earned a master's degree in electrical engineering from the

National Taiwan University of Science and Technology The National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (abbreviated as NTUST or TaiwanTech) is a public university located in Taipei, Taiwan. TaiwanTech was established in 1974 as the National Taiwan Institute of Technology (), the first and ...

. He then completed graduate studies in the United States at the

University of Texas at Arlington The University of Texas at Arlington (UTA or UT Arlington) is a public research university in Arlington, Texas, United States. It is the second oldest university in the University of Texas System and was founded in 1895. It was in the Texas A& ...

, where he earned a master's degree in electrical engineering in 1987 and his

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in the subject in 1990.

Career

Chen returned to Taiwan in 1992, and worked at

National Central University National Central University (; abbreviated NCU; ) is a public research university based in Taiwan. It was founded in 1902 in Nanjing; initially located in Miaoli after moving to Taiwan, it relocated to Zhongli in 1962 and developed into a com ...

, he was an editor of '' IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing'', ''

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'', and ''Journal of Aerospace''. Chen became a professor at National Central University in August 1996. In 2006, he was elected a fellow of the

(IEEE). In September 2013, he abandoned his job at Taiwan's

and moved to

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and worked at the

Chinese Academy of Sciences The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS; ) is the national academy for natural sciences and the highest consultancy for science and technology of the People's Republic of China. It is the world's largest research organization, with 106 research i ...

. His action triggered national security concerns in Taiwan.

References

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