Kun-Shan Chen - Curriculum Vitae#

I. Brief Biosketch

Kun-Shan Chen received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington, Texas, US, in 1990. From 1992-2014, he was a professor at the National Central University, Taiwan. Since 2014, he has been with the Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. Since 2019, he joined Guilin University of Technology as a national distinguished professor. His research interests include electromagnetic scattering and emission theory, modeling, system, measurement, and intelligent signal processing, and data analytics for radar. He has authored and co-authored numerous journal and conference papers, ten book chapters, and five books during his past 30 years of research and teaching career. As a Fellow of IEEE, he is the receipt of 2021 IEEE GRSS Fawwaz Ulaby Distinguished Achievement Award.

II. Research productivity

(1) Jointly with Professor A.K. Fung, developed theoretical modeling of scattering from rough surfaces - the Integral Equation Model (IEM)

(2) Extended IEM to the Advanced IEM (AIEM) model to include microwave emission

(3) Developed theories, models and algorithms for microwave remote sensing and radar imaging with applications to geophysical parameters retrieval, terrain classification, target recognition, surface deformation, etc.

(4) Developed bistatic wave scattering model in radar imaging of random media

(5) Published five books in remote sensing:

1) Microwave Emission and Scattering Models for Users (with A.K. Fung), Artech House, USA, 2010

2) Radar Observations of Southeast Asia – SAR Atlas (with M. Hsu, C. Wang, A. K. Liu), NCU Press, ISBN: 978-986-85689-4-5, 2010

3) Principle of Synthetic Aperture Radar: A System Simulation Approach, Taylor&Francis CRC Press, USA, 2015. (42)

4) Advances in SAR Remote Sensing of Ocean, (ed. with X. Li, H. Guo, X. Yang), Taylor&Francis CRC Press, USA, 2018.

5) Radar Scattering and Imaging of Rough Surfaces Modelling and Applications with MATLAB®, Taylor&Francis CRC Press, USA, 2020.

(6) Published 180+ refereed journal articles with more than 7000 citations.

III. Student mentoring

As an educator for 30 years, Kun-Shan Chen taught as a distinguished professor at the Center of Space and Remote Sensing Research at the National Central University in Taiwan, and Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth at the Chinese Academy of Science in China. Kun-Shan has successfully graduated 21 Ph.D. and 91 Master’s degree students in remote sensing research. He will graduate another four Ph.D. students and 6 master students in 2020-2021. More recently, he joined Guilin University of Technology, where he supervises 3 post doctoral fellows, and 6 graduate students. Most of his students are currently contributing to remote sensing research and applications. He has hosted and supervised intern students from Japan, Malaysia, and France.

IV. Services, Honors and Recognitions

During his time in Taiwan, Dr. Chen successfully managed Taiwan’s radar remote sensing program. Most notably, he was in charge of the GlobeSAR experiment (CCRS, 1993) and the NASA JPL/AirSAR PACRIM I&II campaign in Taiwan (1996, 2000). He also led the research team in SRTM, ERS-1/2, JERS-1, RADARSAT 1/2, ENVISAT, and ALOS-2 in data reception, acquisition, processing, and distribution. These programs became the initiative in Taiwan’s SAR research and applications addressing many issues from flood monitoring, landslide mapping, and land subsidence to land deformations due to earthquakes. Since 2014 in Beijing, China, he pioneered bistatic wave scattering in radar imaging. This research leads to several outstanding publications in TGARS, GRSL, and JSTARS.

(1) Editorial Service

• Member of Editorial Board, IEEE Access (2020 - present)
  
• Member of Editorial Board, Proceedings of IEEE (2014 - 2019)
  
• Associate Editor, Remote Sensing/MDPI (2017 - present)
  
• Lead Guest Editor, Remote Sensing, Special issue on Radar Scattering and Imaging, 2018
  
• Co-Guest Editor, Remote Sensing, Special issue on Data Restoration and Denoising of Remote Sensing Data, 2018
  
• Member of Editorial Board, Progress in Electromagnetic Research (2013 - present)
  
• Member of Editorial Board, Big Earth Data, (2017 - present)
  
• Member of Editorial Board, Intl J. Digital Earth, (2014 - present)
  
• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (2001 - present)
  
• Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (in Chinese, English abstract), 2001 - 2008
  
• Founding Deputy Editor in Chief, IEEE J. of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing (2008-2010)
  
• Associate Editor, IEEE J. of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing (2011-present)
  
• Associate Editor, IEEE GRSS Magazine (2012-2014)
  
• Co-Guest Editor, Special Issue of IGARSS 2016, IEEE J. of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
  
• Co-Guest Editor, Special Issue of IGARSS 2017, IEEE J. of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
  
• Co-Guest Editor, 2019, Special Issue of Remote Sensing for Environmental Sustainability in the Asian–Pacific Region, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

(2) Technical Service

• Council member, Union of Radio Science International (URSI) (2012 - present)
  
• Technical Co-Chair, 2020 India Intl Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (InGARSS 2020), December 2 – 4, 2020, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.
  
• Technical Co-Chair, 2017 Intl Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), Fort Worth, TX, USA.
  
• Technical Co-Chair, 2016 Intl Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), Beijing, China
  
• Technical Committee Member, Session Organizer, Session Chair of IGARSS since 1992
• NASA SMAP Satellite Mission Science Team member, Japan JAXA ALOS satellite mission science team member (2012-2014)
  
• Member of ALOS-2, Japan, calibration science team (2012-2014)
  
• Regional program coordinator/ scientist for NASA/JPL PACRIM Campaign(1996, 2000)
  
• National Correspondent, Comm. I: Sensor, ISPRS (1997-2005)
  
• IEEE GRSS ADCOM member (2010-2014)
  
• Funding Chair (2004 -2011), Taipei Chapter, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society

V. Administrative experiences

Dr. Chen was appointed the Director of the Center for Space and Remote Sensing Research, Taiwan, with a total number of 100+ staff and researchers, in 2001. He provided leadership in advancing the Center towards becoming an International Center of Excellence to face even more significant challenges in the forth-coming twenty-first century. He restructured the organization for more and yet better management and upgraded the research capacity by increasing the critical mass of members and national and international collaborators from the USA, Europe, and Asia. Later in his tenure as Director of the Center for Communication System, Taiwan, he created one of the unique centers devoted to research and development in radar remote sensing and ultrawideband communication in Taiwan.

Prof. Chen is the founding director (2018-present) of the International Joint Laboratory for Polarization Sensing and Intelligent Signal Processing, a joint research program between the University of Strasbourg, France Xuchang University, under the funding support of Henan Province, China. The laboratory is dedicated to fundamental research focusing on critical scientific issues in polarization sensing and intelligent signal processing, cultivating leading talents and research bases with international influence, and transferring the core technology research to the industry.