Yuguo Chen
American statistician
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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.
Yuguo Chen | |
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| Alma mater | University of Science and Technology of China (BS) Stanford University (PhD) |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Thesis | Sequential Importance Sampling with Resampling: Theory and Applications (2001) |
| Doctoral advisor | Tze Leung Lai Jun S. Liu |
| Doctoral students | Emma Zhang |
| Website | publish |
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]
Selected publications
- "State and parameter estimation of hydrologic models using the constrained ensemble Kalman filter". Water Resources Research. doi:10.1029/2008WR007401
- "Sequential Monte Carlo Methods for Statistical Analysis of Tables". Journal of the American Statistical Association 100:109–120. doi:10.1198/016214504000001303