Kun Chen
Past Secretary
Kun Chen is a Professor in the Department of
Statistics at the University of Connecticut
(UConn) and a Research Fellow at the Center
for Population Health, UConn Health Center. He
has been a Fellow of the American Statistical
Association (ASA) since 2022 and an Elected
Member of the International Statistical
Institute (ISI) since 2016. His research
mainly focuses on large-scale multivariate
statistical learning, statistical machine
learning, and healthcare analytics. He has
extensive interdisciplinary research
experience in several fields, including
ecology, biology, agriculture, and population
health. Dr. Chen has graduated with over ten
PhDs and received Recognition for Teaching
Excellence at UConn multiple times. He has
also been active in professional services. In
particular, he was a core member in
establishing the New England Statistical
Society (NESS) in 2017 and served as its
secretary until 2021. Currently, he serves as
the Program Chair for the ASA Section on
Statistical Computing and Vice-President for
the ASA Connecticut Chapter.
Dr. Chen received his B.Econ. in Finance and
Dual B.S. in Computer Science & Technology
from the University of Science & Technology of
China in 2003, M.S. in Statistics from the
University of Alaska Fairbanks in 2007, and
Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of
Iowa in 2011. Before joining UConn, he was on
the faculty of Kansas State University from
2011 to 2013.
