Biography:Yuguo Chen

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Yuguo Chen
Alma materUniversity of Science and Technology of China (BS)
Stanford University (PhD)
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
ThesisSequential Importance Sampling with Resampling: Theory and Applications (2001)
Doctoral advisorTze Leung Lai
Jun S. Liu
Doctoral studentsEmma Zhang
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]

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