Yuguo Chen

In this Chinese name, the family name is Chen.
Yuguo Chen
Alma materUniversity of Science and Technology of China
Stanford University
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Thesis Sequential Importance Sampling with Resampling: Theory and Applications  (2001)
Doctoral advisorTze Leung Lai
Jun S. Liu
Websitepublish.illinois.edu/yuguo/

Yuguo Chen is a professor of statistics and the interim chair of the Department of Statistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.[1] His work mainly focuses on Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms and network analysis.

He received a B.S. in mathematics from University of Science and Technology of China in 1997 and a Ph.D. in statistics at Stanford University in 2001[2] under the supervision of Tze Leung Lai and Jun S. Liu.[3] Prior to joining the University of Illinois, he was an assistant professor at the Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences at Duke University from 2001 to 2005.[4]

Chen was named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2018.[5]

  1. ^ "University of Illinois Department of Statistics Welcomes New Leadership for 2024-25 Academic Year". University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Department of Statistics. Retrieved 13 October 2024.
  2. ^ "Yuguo Chen IEEE Xplore Author Details". IEEE Xplore. Retrieved 19 April 2020.
  3. ^ "Yuguo Chen". Mathematics Genealogy Project. Retrieved 19 April 2020.
  4. ^ "Yuguo Chen". University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Department of Statistics. Retrieved 19 April 2020.
  5. ^ "Many Honored at President's Address, Awards Ceremony". Amstat News. October 1, 2018. Retrieved 2022-06-20.