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August 27, 2014

J UNHONG C HEN

Morse Hall ***, Durham, NH *****

Email: ******@********.***.***

S KILL H IGHLIGHTS

• Languages: C/C++, Python, IDL, FORTRAN, R

• Operating Systems: Mac OS X, Unix/Linux, Windows

• Analytical Skills: Mathematical Modeling, Numerical Simulation, Data Analysis

E DUCATION

Ph.D. of Space Physics (GPA: 3.70/4.00) Expected: Dec, 2014

University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH

• Selected Courses: Mathematical Methods in Physics, High Performance Computing, Operating System

Programming

• Courses Audited: Data Structure

• Online Courses: Practice Programing In C++, An Introduction to Interactive Programming In Python,

Principles of Computing, R Programming, Regression Models

Bachelor of Earth and Space Science (Rank: 3/16) Sept, 2005 - June, 2009

University of Science and Technology of China, Anhui, China

• Honors: Outstanding Work in Undergraduate Research Program, Zhao Jiuzhang Scholarship, Excellent

Undergraduate Scholarship

W ORK E XPERIENCE

Research Assistant

University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH June, 2010 - Present

• Designed a numerical simulator for instruments onboard multiple spacecrafts.

• Analyzed 12-year ACE mission data to establish a cooling pattern of Pickup ions.

• Implemented particle distribution simulator for a parallelized kinetic simulation code using MPI.

• Authored and coauthored three published papers and have two other papers in preparation.

P ROJECTS

• “Blackjack” and “Asteroids” python games based on Simplegui. (March, 2014 – April, 2014)

• “grep” like command line tool with C language and POSIX Standard. (Sept, 2013 – Dec, 2013)

• Parallelized KdV equation solver with C language and OpenMP. (Feb, 2013 – May, 2013)

• Interstellar neutral gas distribution calculator with C language and MPI (Feb, 2013 – May, 2013)

• Main contributor to two NASA projects; Designed and implemented data analysis tool and a numerical

simulator with C, MPI, and Python. Fulfilled the scientific objectives with the developed tools. (June, 2010

- Present)

S ELECTED P UBLICATIONS

• Chen, J. H, Moebius. E, Gloeckler. G, Bochsler. P, et al., Observational study of the cooling behavior of

interstellar helium pickup ions in the heliosphere, J. Geophys. Res., 2013

• Wang, Y. M, Cao. H, Chen, J. H, et al., Solar Limb Prominence Catcher and Tracker (SLIPCAT): An

automated system and its statistical result, Astrophysical Journal, 2009