Yu-Wen Chen earned his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Chemistry from National Taiwan University. He is currently pursuing his graduate studies in the Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences department (ATOC) at CU Boulder, where he works under the supervision of Dr. Sebastian Schmidt at ATOC/LASP. Yu-Wen's primary research interest is investigating carbon dioxide retrieval biases in the vicinity of clouds for OCO-2 satellites.