Dongmei Chen had recieved  B.A. in geography from Peking University, China and Master in GIS and remote sensing application from the Institute of Remote Sensing Application, Chinese Academic of Science.Dongmei Chen completed her Ph.D. in Geography from the joint doctoral program of San Diego State University and University of California at Santa B.A.rB.A.ra in 2001.

Dongmei Chen research interests include Error modeling and accuracy analysis in remote sensing, Spatial-temporal disease spread modeling and simulation, Modeling of social, economic, environmental, health and climate impacts of urbanization, Land use/cover change detection and modeling, Urban micro-climate and air quality mapping using remotely sensed data, GIS, Spatial point pattern analysis and Geostatistics.