Wai-Kai Chen (Chinese: 陳 惠開; born December 23, 1936, in Nanjing) is a Chinese-American professor emeritus of electrical engineering and computer science.
In Taipei, Wai-Kai and Wai-Fah entered formal education as sophomores in the Junior High School of Taiwan Normal University.
From 1981 to 2001 he was a full professor and head of the department of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Illinois Chicago.
[1] For the academic year 1986–1987 he held a visiting position at Chuo University, where he worked with Maskazu Sengoku and Shoji Shinoda.
He has done research on "VLSI circuits, broadband matching, active networks, filters, and applied graph theory especially its applications to parallel computations.