Dr. Chen
Kun-Mu Chen (Fellow, IEEE) was born in Taipei, Taiwan on Febuary 3, 1933. He received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University in 1955, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Applied Physics from Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1958 and 1960, respectively.
From 1960 to 1964 he was associated with the Radiation Laboratory, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he was engaged in the studies of Electromagnetics and plasma. Since 1964 he has been with Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigna, first as Associate Professor and from 1967 to 1995 as Professor of Electrical Engineering. In 1995 he became Richard M. Hong Professor of Electrical Engineering. From 1968 to 1973 he was the Director of Electrical Engineering program of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Systems Science. He was a visiting professor with Chao-Tung University, Taiwan in 1962, with National Taiwan University, Taiwan in 1989, and with Tohoku University, Japan in 1989. He has published many papers on electromagnetic radiation and scattering, radar target discrimination and detection, plasma and bioelectromagnetics.
Dr. Chen is a Fellow of IEEE and AAAS. He received the Distinguished Faculty Award from Michigan State University in 1976, the Withrow Distinguished Scholar Award from the College of Engineering, Michigan State University in 1993, and the Outstanding Achievement Award from Taiwanese American Foundation in 1984.
