Peter Pin-Shan Chen (Chinese: 陳å" å±±; born in 1947) is a Taiwanese
American computer scientist. He is a (retired) distinguished career
scientist and faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University and
Professor Emeritus at LSU. He is known for the development of the
entity-relationship model in 1976.Born 1947 in Guangzhou, Republic of
China, Peter Chen received a B.S. in electrical engineering in 1968 at
the National Taiwan University, and a Ph.D. in computer
science/applied mathematics at Harvard University in 1973. In 1970, he
worked one summer at IBM. After graduating from Harvard, he spent one
year at Honeywell and a summer at Digital Equipment Corporation.From
1974 to 1978 Chen was an assistant professor at the MIT Sloan School
of Management. From 1978 to 1983 he was associate professor at the
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA Management School). From
1983 to 2011 Chen held the position of M. J. Foster Distinguished
Chair Professor of Computer Science at Louisiana State University and,
for several years, adjunct professor in its Business School and
Medical School (Shreveport). During this time period, he was a
visiting professor once at Harvard in '89-'90 and three times at
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (EECS Dept. in '86-'87, Sloan
School in '90-'91, and Division of Engineering Systems in 06-'07).
From 2010 to 2020, Chen was a Distinguished Career Scientist and
faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University, U.S.A.Besides lecturing
around the world, he has also served as (honorary) professor outside
of the U.S. In 1984, under the sponsorship of United Nations, he
taught a one-month short course on databases at Huazhong University of
Science and Technology in Wuhan, China , and was awarded as Honorary
Professor there. Then, he went to Beijing as a member of the IEEE
delegation of the First International Conference on Computers and
Applications (the first major IEEE computer conference held in China).
From 2008 to 2014, he was an Honorary Chair Professor in the Institute
of Service Science at National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan. Starting
2016, he is an Honorary Chair Professor in the Department of
Bioengineering and Bioinformatics, Asia University (Taiwan). Peter Chen Biography, NetWorth, Height, Age, Weight, Family, Married, Son, Daughter