CURRICULUM VITAE

A. PERSONAL DATA Background
Name: Ho-Wen Chen Business Address: Department of Environmental Engineering and Management Chaoyang University of Technology 168 Jifong E. Rd., Wufong Township Taichung County, 41349, Taiwan (R.O.C.) TEL:886-4-23323000 EXT 4395 (O) FAX:886-4-23742365 E-mail: hwchen@cyut.edu.tw Web Site: http://researcher.nsc.gov.tw/hwchen/ Gender: Male

B. EDUCATION

C. ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

D. SPONSORED AND PENDING RESEARCH PROJECTS (PI/Co-PI)

• “The planning and development of environmental quality system” sponsored by the Environmental Analysis Laboratory of EPA, Taiwan, EPA-91-1601-02-11, 2002. (Co-PI) (NT$1,450,000) (funded, 100% effort).
• “The application of environmental system analysis to water-land resources management in a river basin” sponsored by the National Science Council, Taiwan, NSC91-2211-E-324-003, 2002. (PI) (NT$556,300) (funded, 100% effort).
•  “Grey system dynamic model and its application to water resources management” sponsored by the National Science Council, Taiwan, NSC92-2211-E-324-008, 2003. (PI) (NT$685,900) (funded, 100% effort).
•  “The establishment of monitoring and control technique for waste water treatment plants” sponsored by the National Science Council, Taiwan, NSC93-2622-E-324-003-CC3, 2004. (PI) (NT$344,400) (funded, 100% effort).
• “Optimization analysis for Land resources usage and conservation” sponsored by the National Science Council, Taiwan, NSC93-2211-E-390-005, 2004. (Co-PI) (NT$617,200) (funded, 100% effort).
• “Environmental change control and river quality control” sponsored by the National Science Council, Taiwan, NSC93-2211-E-324-007, 2004. (PI) (NT$663,400) (funded, 100% effort).
• “Heavy emission vehicles screening model with remote sensing data” sponsored by the National Science Council, Taiwan, NSC94-2622-E-324-003-CC3, 2005. (PI) (NT$401,000) (funded, 100% effort).
• “The application of spatial system dynamic to integrated water resources management” sponsored by the National Science Council, Taiwan, NSC94-2211-E-324-001, 2005. (PI) (NT$561,000) (funded, 100% effort).
•  “The applications of satellite remote sensing to environmental monitoring” sponsored by the National Science Council, Taiwan, NSC95-2622-E-324-001-CC3, 2006. (PI) (NT$263,000) (funded, 100% effort).
•  “The optimal strategies in land usages for controlling the CO2 emission” sponsored by the National Science Council, Taiwan, NSC95-2221-E-390-011, 2006. (Co -PI) (NT$662,000) (funded, 100% effort).
• “Spatial statistics and pollution control strategy in an industrial estate” sponsored by the National Science Council, Taiwan, NSC95-2221-E-324-011, 2006. (PI) ($919,000) (funded, 100% effort).
• “The Development and Application of Decision Support Module to Water Quality Control in a River Basin” sponsored by the National Science Council, Taiwan, NSC96-2622-E-324-004-CC3, 2007. (PI) ($401,000) (funded, 100% effort).
• “Randomized algorithms for regional air pollution control” sponsored by the National Science Council, Taiwan, NSC96-2221-E-324-015, 2007. (PI) (NT$831,000) (funded, 100% effort).
• “Environmental information and knowledge management system planning” sponsored by the National Science Council, Taiwan, NSC97-2622-E-324-001-CC3, 2008. (PI) (NT$318,000) (funded, 100% effort).
• “The development of environmental forensics – the applications of system analysis approaches” sponsored by the National Science Council, Taiwan, NSC97-2221-E-324-005-MY3, 2008. (PI) (NT$2,977,000) (funded, 93% effort).
• “Systematic evaluation of incinerators and their optimal improvement strategies” sponsored by the National Science Council, Taiwan, NSC98-2622-E-324-002-CC3, 2009. (PI) (NT$429,000).
• “Lesson design of environmental educations in energy conservation and greenhouse gases reduction” sponsored by the National Science Council, Taiwan, NSC98-2514-S-239-001-NE, 2009. (Co-PI) (NT$1,810,000).

E. MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Water resources and environmental systems engineering
• Environmental informatics, remote sensing, sensor networks, and decision support
• Quantitative risk assessment, management, and communication for environmental management
• Environmental and ecological systems modeling and sustainability assessment
• Environmental and resources economics
• Environmental statistics, data and information management
• Artificial intelligence, decision support system, and expert systems for environmental science and health applications
• Simulation, optimization, and control of waste treatment and pollution reduction processes
• Monitoring and analytical techniques of environmental quality
• Environmental forensics

F. Ad Hoc Reviewer for Academic Journals

• Information sciences
• CLEAN - Soil, Air, Water
• Journal of Environmental Management
• Journal of the Chinese Institute of Engineers
• Journal of Environmental Engineering
• Journal of Hazardous Materials
• Information Processing & Management
• Journal of Business and Information
• Environmental Progress
• Applied Energy
• Journal of Environmental Informatics
• Water Quality, Exposure and Health
• International Journal of Water
• Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory
• The Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering

G. PROFESSIONAL LICENSE OR CERTIFICATE
Registered Professional Engineer of Environmental Engineering in Taiwan since 1993.

H. PUBLICATION (1991-present)

• Lin, C. Y., (2000-2003), “ The Relation of Recreational Impacts and Tourists' Experience.”
• Huang, H. C., (2001-2003), “The Application of Grey System Theory and System Dynamics to Industrial Wastewater Treatment Plant.”
• Wang, Y. S., (2001-2003), “Models to Screen Cross Emitter of Air Pollution by Remote Sensing Data.”
• Chang, K. P., (2001-2004), “Sustainable groundwater management.”
• Weng, J. Y., (2001-2004), “Constructing Environmental Cost Function with Genetic Programming.”
• Chien, H. Y., (2001-2004), “Assessment of Groundwater Resources Availability.”
• Huo, S. C., (2002-2004), “Characteristic Analysis of Non-point Sources.”
• Hung, M. S., (2002-2004), “Simulation Analysis for Effluent of Wastewater Treatment Plant - The Application of Soft Comput.”
• Hung, K. M., (2002-2004) “A Survey Study of SARS Impact on the Professionals.”
• Hu, P. H., (2003-2005), “The Application of System Dynamic Theory to Water Resource Management.”
• Lin, L. G., (2003-2005) “Wasteload Allocation Strategeries with Uncertainty in a River Basin.”
• Huang, Y. W., (2005-2006) “Applying Knowledge Mining and Fuzzy Inference on Satellite Image Classification –A Case Study for Taichung City.”
• Li, W. M., (2004-2006), “Integrated planning for land use by optimization model and GIS – a case study of the Techi Watershed.”
• Tsai, S. J., (2005-2007), “Performance Evaluation of Municipal Solid Waste Incinerator in Taiwan by Using Data Envelopment Analysis.”
• Yu, J. H., (2005-2007), “The Effect of Perceived Dangers upon Training Nurses in a Hospital Working Environment.”
• Cheng, T. F., (2006-2008), “Source Apportion of Volatile Organic Compounds in the Amboance of Central Taiwan Science Park.”
• Kang, S. H., (2006-2008), “The Evidence Analysis of Internet Learning in Environment Education.”
• Chou, M. C., (2006-2008), “Planning the learning organization in a department of environmental management.”
• She, C. W., (2007-2009), “Source Apportionment of Regional Air Pollutant Using Expected Value Theory.”
• Lai, M. L., (2007-2009), “Simulating the Change of Water Quality in an Eutrophicated Lake.”
• Lai, H. M., (2007-2009), “Risk Analysis and Optimal Reduction Strategy of Hazardous Air Pollutants for An Industry Park.”

I. PUBLICATION (1991-present)

1. Chang, N. B., Chen, Ho-Wen, and Chen, Y. L., "A Fuzzy Regression Analysis for the Construction Cost Estimation of Wastewater Treatment Plants (1) Theoretical Development," Journal of Environmental Science and Health, A32, No. 4, pp. 885-899, 1997. (SCI) Impact factor(0.607)
2. Chang, N. B. and Chen, Ho-Wen, "Water Pollution Control in a River Basin by Interactive Fuzzy Interval Multi-objective Programming," Journal of Environmental Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 123, No. 12, pp. 1208-1216, 1997. (SCI) Impact factor(1.25)
3. Chen, Ho-Wen and Chang, N. B., "Water Pollution Control in the River Basin by Genetic Algorithm-Based Fuzzy Multi-objective Programming Modeling," Water Science and Technology, Vol. 37, No. 8, pp. 55-63, 1998. (SCI) Impact factor(0.896)
4. Chen, Ho-Wen and Chang, N. B, "Prediction of Solid Waste Generation via Grey Fuzzy Dynamic Modeling," Resources Conservation and Recycling, Vol. 29, pp. 1-18, May 2000. (SCI) Impact factor(0.355)
5. Ning, S. K., Chang, N. B., Yong, L., Chen, Ho-Wen and Hsu, H. L., “Assessing Pollution Prevention Program by QUAL2E Simulation Analysis for the Kao-Ping River Basin, Taiwan,” Journal of Environmental Management, Vol. 60, pp. 61-77, 2001. (SCI)Impact factor(1.477)
6. Chang, N. B., Chen, Ho-Wen, and Ning, S. K.  "Identification of River Water Quality by Fuzzy Synthetic Evaluation Approach," Journal of Environmental Management, Vol. 63, No. 3, pp. 293-305, Nov 2001. (SCI) Impact factor(0.583)
7. Chang, N. B., Chen, Ho-Wen, Jeng, K. Y., and Lee, C. S. "Prediction Analysis of Non-point Pollutant Loadings for the Reservoir Watershed via the use of GIS/GPS/RS Information Technology" Water International, Vol. 126, No. 2, pp. 239-251, December 2001. (SCI) Impact factor(0.403).
8. Chen, Ho-Wen and Chang, N. B., "A Comparative Analysis of Methods to Represent Uncertainty in Estimating the Cost of Constructing Wastewater Treatment Plants," Journal of Environmental Management, Vol. 65, No. 4, pp. 383-409, February 2002. (SCI) Impact factor(1.477).
9. Yu, R. F., Chen, Ho-Wen, Cheng, W. P., Chi, F. H., Liaw, S. L., and Yu, Y. H., “Development of a Data Quality Management System for ROC EPA,” Journal of the Chinese Institute of Environmental Engineering, Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 141-149, December 2004.
10. Chen, Ho-Wen, Chang, N. B., and Shaw, Daigee, “Valuation of In-stream Water Quality Improvement via Fuzzy Contingent Valuation Method,” Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, Vol. 19, pp. 158-171, 3 February, 2005. (SCI) Impact factor(0.682).
11. Yang, Hsi-Hsien, Chen, Ho-Wen, Chung-Bang, and Chine, Shu-Mei, “Effect of Fuel Properties on Particulate Matter and Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Emission from Diesel Engine,” International Journal of Applied Science and Engineering”, Vol. 3, pp. 27-36, March 2005.
12. Hsieh, Lien-Te, Yang, Hsi-Hsien, and Chen, Ho-Wen, ”Characterization of Both MTBE and BTEX in the Ambient Air of Night Markets in Southern Taiwan,” Aerosol and Air Quality Research, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 154-170, December 2005.
13. Hsieh, Lien-Te, Yang, Hsi-Hsien, and Chen, Ho-Wen, “Ambient BTEX and MTBE in the Neighborhoods of Different Industrial Parks in Southern Taiwan,” Journal of Hazardous Materials, Vol. 128, pp. 106-115, February 2006. (SCI) Impact factor(1.433)
14. Yu, Ruey-Fang, Chen, Ho-Wen, Cheng, Wen-Po, and Chu, Mei-Ling “Measurements of Wastewater True Color by 4/6 Wavelength Methods and Artificial Neural Network,” Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, Vol. 118, pp. 195-209, July 2006. (SCI) Impact factor(0.739)
15. Chen, Ho-Wen and Chang, N. B., “Decision Support for Watershed Waste Load Allocation in an Uncertain Environment,” Journal of American Water Resources Association, Vol. 42, No. 3, pp. 725-745, June 2006. (SCI) Impact factor(0.735)
16. Chen, Ho-Wen, and Yu, R. F., “Evolutionism of Environmental Information System through Quality System,” Journal of the Chinese Institute of Environmental Engineering, Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 103-109, July 2006.
17. Chen, Ho-Wen, Ning, Shu-Kuang, Yu, Ruey-Fang, and Hung, Ming-Sung, “Optimizing the Monitoring Strategy of Wastewater Treatment Plants by Multiobjective Neural Networks Approach,” Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, Vol. 125, pp. 325-332, 2007. Impact factor(0.739)
18. Chen, Jeng-Chung, Ning, Shu-Kuang, Chen, Ho-Wen, Shu, Ching-Sung, “Flooding probability of urban area estimated by decision tree and artificial neural networks,” Journal of Hydroinformatics, Vol 10 No 1 pp 57-67, Jan. 2008. (SCI) Impact factor(0.607)
19. Yu, Ruey-Fang Chen, Ho-Wen, Cheng, Wen-Po, Chen, Yu-Chiu “Dynamic control of disinfection for wastewater reuse applying ORP/pH monitoring and artificial neural networks,” Resources, Conservation and Recycling, Vol. 52, pp. 1015–1021, 2008. Impact factor(1.05)
20. Chang, N. B., Chang, Y. H., and Chen, Ho-Wen, “Fair fund distribution for a municipal incinerator using GIS-based fuzzy analytic hierarchy process,” Journal of Environmental Management, Vol. 90, pp. 441-454, 2009. Impact factor(1.446)
21. Yu, Ruey-Fang, Chen, Ho-Wen, Cheng, Wen-Po, and Mei-Ling Chu, “Simultaneously monitoring the particle size distribution, morphology and suspended solids concentration in wastewater applying digital image analysis(DIA),” Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, Vol. 148, pp. 19-26, 2009. Impact factor(0.739)
22. Yu, Ruey-Fang Chen, Ho-Wen, Cheng, Wen-Po, Chen, Yu-Chiu “Application of pH-ORP titration to daynamically control the chlorination and dechlorination for wastewater reclamation,” Desalination, Vol. 244, pp.164-176, 2009. Impact factor (0.917)
23. Chang, N. B., Chen, Ho-Wen, Hsu, H. Y., Ning, S. K., Shao, K. T., and Hung, T. C. “Sizing an Off-stream Reservoir with Respect to Water Availability, Water Quality, and Biological Integrity,” Water Resources Research Environmental Modeling and Assessment, in press, may, 2009. Impact factor (0.754)
24. Chen, Ho-Wen Yang, Hsi-Hsien and Wang, Y. C., “Vehicle Emitter Screening with Remote Sensing Data Using Objective-Orient Artificial Neural Network, Science of the Total Environment, in press, July, 2009. Impact factor (2.579)
25. Chen, Ho-Wen, Chang, Ni-Bin, Yu, Ruey-Fang and Huang, Yi-Wen, “Land cover mapping with satellite data integrating neural-fuzzy inference and data mining approaches,” Journal of Applied Remote Sensing, accepted, Jan., 2009.
26. Chen, Ho-Wen, Yu, Ruey-Fang, Ning, Shu-Kuang and Huang, Hsin-Chih, “Forecasting effluent quality of an industry wastewater treatment plant by evolutionary grey dynamic model,” Resources, Conservation & Recycling, in press, Aug., 2009. Impact factor (1.133).