peter chen peter pinshan chen chinese born in 1947 is a taiwanese american computer scientist he is a distinguished career scientist and faculty member at carnegie mellon university who is known for the development of the entityrelationship model in 1976 biography born 1947 in taichung taiwan peter chen received a bs in electrical engineering in 1968 at the national taiwan university and a phd in computer scienceapplied mathematics at harvard university in 1973 in 1970 he worked one summer at ibm after graduating from harvard he spent one year at honeywell and a summer at digital equipment corporation from 1974 to 1978 chen was an assistant professor at the mit sloan school of management from 1978 to 1983 he was associate professor at the university of california los angeles ucla management school from 1983 to 2011 chen held the position of m j foster distinguished chair professor of computer science at louisiana state university and for several years adjunct professor in its business school and medical school shreveport during this time period he was a visiting professor once at harvard in 8990 and three times at massachusetts institute of technology eecs dept in 8687 sloan school in 9091 and division of engineering systems in 0607 from 2008 to 2014 he was an honorary chair professor in the institute of service science at national tsing hua university taiwan starting 2016 he is an honorary chair professor in the department of bioengineering and bioinformatics asia university taiwan currently chen is a distinguished career scientist and faculty member at carnegie mellon university usa awards and honors chens original paper he is listed in whos who in america and whos who in the world chen has received many awards in the fields of information technology in june 2011 in jeju island korea chen received the transformative achievement medal from software engineering society and the society for design and process science his innovative work initiated a new field of research and practice called conceptual modeling since 1979 an annual international professional meeting thae international conference on conceptual modeling has been held in different countries peter p chen award to recognize chens pioneering leadership role the peter p chen award was established in 2008 to honor excellent researcherseducators for outstanding contributions to the field of conceptual modeling each year the recipients of the peter p chen award are 2008 bernhard thalheim professor university of kiel germany 2009 david w embley professor brigham young university byu usa 2010 john mylopoulos professor university of toronto canada and university of trento italy 2011 tok wang ling professor national university of singapore nus singapore 2012 stefano spaccapietra honorary professor swiss federal institute of technology epfl switzerland 2013 carlo batini professor university of milanobicocca italy 2014 antonio l furtado professor pucrio brazil 2015 ilyeol song professor drexel university usa 2016 oscar pastor professor universitat politcnica de valncia spain 2017 yair wand canfor professor in mis university of british columbia canada 2018 veda c storey tull professor of computer information systems georgia state university atlanta usa peter chen big data young researcher award to recognize chens pioneering role and contributions in building the foundation for big data modeling and analysis the peter chen big data young researcher award was established in 2015 by the service society the peter chen big data young researcher award winners are 2015 yi chen associate professor new jersey institute of technology usa 2016 wei tan research staff member ibm thomas j watson research center yorktown heights ny usa 2017 ilkay altintas chief data science officer san diego supercomputer center univ of california san diego usa work entityrelationship modeling and conceptual data modeling the entityrelationship model serves as the foundation of many systems analysis and design methodologies computeraided software engineering case tools and repository systems the er model is the basis for ibms repository managermvs and decs cddplus chens original paper chens main contributions are formalizing the concepts developing a theory with a set of data definition and manipulation operations and specifying the translation rules from the er model to several major types of databases including the relational database he also popularized the model and introduced it to the academic literature the er model was adopted as the meta model ansi standard in information resource directory system irds and the er approach has been ranked at the top methodology for database design and one of the top methodologies in systems development by several surveys of fortune 500 companies computeraided software engineering chens work is a cornerstone of software engineering the er model is also the basis for microsofts adonet entity framework the hypertext concept which makes the world wide web extremely popular is very similar to the main concept in the er model chen investigated this linkage as an invited expert of several xml working groups of the world wide web consortium w3c the er model also serves as the foundation of some of the recent work on objectoriented analysis and design methodologies and semantic web the uml modeling language has its roots in the er model computer performance modeling in his early career he was active in rd activities in computer system performance he was the program chair of an acm sigmetrics conference he developed a computer performance model for a major computer vendor his innovative research results were adopted in commercial computer performance tuning and capacity planning tools memory and storage hierarchy storage technology cdrom firmware and microprogramming his phd thesis at harvard was one of the first studies of costperformance optimization models of multilevel memorystorage hierarchies he was also one of the early microprogrammers developing the firmware for a file control unit for an ibm mainframe computer his article on cdrom in ieee proceedings journal in the 80s was one of the first articles explaining how cdrom worked when cdroms became popular he was a coauthor of the storage technology article in early versions of a computer encyclopedia book published by mcgrawhill cyber security and terrorist detection in recent years he led a multidisciplinary research team in developing new efficient and effective techniques in identifying terrorists and malicious cyber transactions at cmu he is active in the rd activities of cert coordination center and software engineering institute sei big data web services blockchain internet of things iot he is active in research and lecturing on big data and emerging technologies he was a keynote speaker and a keynote panelist on big data at ieee conferences he was the 2014 program chair the 201516 conference chair and 2017 honorary chair of the ieee bigdata congresses he is the chair of 2018 ieee icws conference and the chair of blockchain panel he is the general chair of 2019 ieee service congress milan italy publications peter p chen published many books papers and articles books a selection 2007 active conceptual modeling of learning next generation learningbase system development with leah y wong eds springer 1999 advances in conceptual modeling er99 workshops on evolution and change in data management reverse engineering in information systems and the world lecture notes in computer science with david w embley jacques kouloumdjian stephen w liddle and john f roddick eds springer verlag 1999 conceptual modeling current issues and future directions lecture notes in computer science with jacky akoka hannu kangassalo and bernhard thalheim 1985 data knowledge engineering volume 1 number 1 1985 1981 entity relationship approach to information modeling and analysis 1980 entity relationship approach to systems analysis and design northholland articles a selection 1976 march the entityrelationship model toward a unified view of data acm transactions on database systems new york association for computing machinery 1 1 936 doi101145320434320440 issn 03625915 2002 entityrelationship modelinghistorical events future trends and lessons learned in software pioneers contributions to software engineering broy m and denert e eds berlin springerverlag lecture notes in computer sciences june 2002 pp100114 home page of dr peter chen at louisiana state university vtesoftware engineeringfields computer programming requirements engineering software deployment software design software maintenance software testing systems analysis formal methods concepts data modeling enterprise architecture functional specification modeling language orthogonality programming paradigm software software archaeology software architecture software configuration management software development methodology software development process software quality software quality assurance software verification and validation structured analysis orientations agile aspectoriented object orientation ontology service orientation sdlc modelsdevelopmental agile eup executable uml incremental model iterative model prototype model rad up scrum spiral model vmodel waterfall model xp other spice cmmi data model er model function model information model metamodeling object model systems model view model languages idef uml usl sysml softwareengineers victor basili kent beck grady booch fred brooks barry boehm peter chen danese cooper ward cunningham tom demarco edsger w dijkstra delores m etter martin fowler adele goldstine margaret hamilton c a r hoare lois haibt mary jean harrold grace hopper watts humphrey michael a jackson ivar jacobson alan kay nancy leveson stephen j mellor bertrand meyer david parnas trygve reenskaug winston w royce james rumbaugh mary shaw peri tarr elaine weyuker niklaus wirth edward yourdon related fields computer science computer engineering project management risk management systems engineering category commons authority control worldcat identities acm dl 81350597608 dblp cppchen isni 0000 0001 1736 3885 lccn n79089545 mgp 143692 viaf 857812 