Kun Chen, PhD is an Associate Professor in the Department
of Statistics and is a Research Fellow in the Institute of
Public Health Research at the University of Connecticut. He
joined UConn in Fall 2013 after working as an Assistant
Professor at Kansas State University for two years. Dr. Chen
earned his Ph.D. in statistics from the University of Iowa
in 2011, a M.S. in statistics from the University of Alaska,
Fairbanks in 2007, and a B.Econ degree in Finance and a dual
BS degree in Computer Science from the University of Science
and Technology of China in 2003. Dr. Chen's methodological
research interests include dimension reduction, variable
selection, multivariate analysis, statistical computing and
optimization, statistical ecology, environmental statistics,
bioinformatics, and public health applications.
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