Prof. Chen graduated with a 4-year MEng (Bachelor’s and Master’s joint degree) from Imperial College London in 2009, in the field of electronics and electrical engineering with computer science. He completed his PhD from the Optoelectronics Research Centre at the University of Southampton in 2013. He worked in an industrial research lab as a postdoctoral research fellow for SPI Lasers Ltd. from 2013 to 2015. He joined the University of South Australia as a research fellow in 2015. He was a part of the MinEx CRC. He joined Shenzhen University in 2021 as a Professor.