Huawei Chen was born in Henan, China , in 1977. He received the Ph.D. degree from Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China , in 2004.

In 2004, he joined the Department of Electronic Science and Engineering and the Institute of Acoustics, Nanjing University, China, as a Postdoctoral Researcher. From August 2005 to August 2009, he was with the Centre for Signal Processing, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, as a Research Fellow. Since September 2009, he has been a Professor with the College of Electronic and Information Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China. He has published more than 80 research papers in refereed journals and conferences. His current research interests include microphone array signal processing, acoustical and speech signal processing, statistical and adaptive signal processing. He currently serves as an Associate Editor of the journal IEEE ACCESS and the Springer journal Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing.