PhD, Carnegie Mellon University, 1990

Dr. Chen is a Professor in the Department of Information and Decision Sciences, College of Business Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago. He also holds an appointment in Department of Bioengineering. Before joining UIC in 1999, he was at Department of Statistics, Texas A&M University.

Dr. Chen received his B.S. (1985) in Mathematics from Peking University, P.R. China, his M.S. (1987) and Ph.D. (1990) in Statistics from Carnegie Mellon University.

Dr. Chen's main research interests are in nonlinear/nonparametric time series analysis, statistical computing and Monte Carlo methods in nonlinear/non-Gaussian dynamic systems, and statistical applications in engineering and business. He has received five NSF grants for his research in time series and dynamic systems. He also has a US patent pending for a novel method in digital wireless communications. Dr. Chen has extensive publications in both statistical and engineering journals.

Dr. Chen is an Associate Editor for Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Statistica Sinica and Computational Statistics. He also served as a panel reviewer for NSF SBIR program and Probability and Statistics program. He is a member of the advisory board of XploRe, an advanced statistical software. Dr. Chen is the co-chair of the program committee and chair of the local organizing committee for ICSA 2001 Applied Statistics Symposium to be held in Chicago, June 7-9, 2001.

Research Interests :
Nonlinear and Multivariate Time Series Analysis
Monte Carlo Methods, Statistical Computing and Bayesian Analysis
Statistical Forecasting in Economics and Business.

Home Page: http://www.uic.edu/~rongchen