Haonan Chen has been an Affiliate Research Scientist at the NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory (PSL) and 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. He worked at NOAA/PSL through CIRA during 2012 - 2020, first as a Research Student, then a National Research Council (NRC) Research Associate and 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.

Artificial Intelligence and Remote Sensing

Radar and Satellite Hydrometeorology

Wave Propagation and Scattering

Clouds and Precipitation Observations and Processes

AI for Precipitation Retrievals and Prediction (QPE/QPF)

Education

• Ph.D., Electrical Engineering (with some coursework in Atmospheric Science), Colorado State University, 2017

Professional Activities

• Associate Professor, Colorado State University
• Associate Editor, URSI Radio Science Bulletin
• Associate Editor, Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology
• Associate Editor, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
• Member of AMS Hydrology Committee

Professional Memberships

• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
• American Meteorological Society (AMS)
• International Union of Radio Science (URSI)
• American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Related Links

• ORCiD Page
• Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere
• Advanced Quantitative Precipitation Information