Chaomei Chen Dr Chaomei Chen is a Professor of Informatics in the College of Computing and Informatics at Drexel University. His research expertise is in the study of information and scientific knowledge, including information visualization, visual analytics, knoledge domain visualization, mapping scientific frontiers, and theories of scientific discoveries and creativity. He is the founder and the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Information Visualization, the founder and the Specialty Chief Editor of Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics. He is the author of The Fitness of Information: Quantitative Assessments of Critical Information (Wiley, 2014), Turning Points: The Nature of Creativity (Springer, 2011), Information Visualization: Beyond the Horizon (Springer 2004, 2006) and Mapping Scientific Frontiers: The Quest for Knowledge Visualization (Springer 2003, 2013). Dr. Chen has designed and developed the widely used visual analytics software CiteSpace for visualizing and analyzing structural and temporal patterns in scientific literature. He served as a Chang Jiang Scholar at Dalian University of Technology, China. He received a B.Sc. in Mathematics from Nankai University, China, an M.Sc. in Computation from the University of Oxford in England and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Liverpool, England. Read More Read Less