Chaochen is a professor from Beijing, China. He studied as an undergraduate at the Department of Mathematics and Mechanics, Peking University (1954–1958) and as a postgraduate at the Institute for Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) (1963–1967).
During the periods 1990–1992 and 1995–1996, Chaochen he was a visiting professor at the Department of Computer Science, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, at the invitation of Professor Dines Bjørner. He became Director of UNU-IIST in Macau (1997–2002),, UNU-IIST, Macau, 1997. having been a Principal Research Fellow (1992–1997), before his retirement back to Beijing.