Chen, a native of Nantong, Jiangsu Province, is a Ph.D. student at Wharton Business School and a professor at Washington State University. 1985 graduated from Shanghai jiaotong university with a bachelor's degree from the department of ship structure and ocean engineering and the department of electronic engineering. 1987 obtained a master's degree from the Department of Systems Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Pennsylvania, USA. 1990 12 received his Ph.D. from the Department of Operations and Information Management of Wharton Business School, and studied under Dr. Huck, Dean of Wharton Business School.

Professor Chen has been engaged in management science and operational research for a long time. His main research interests include optimization theory and technology and its application in production, logistics and supply chain. * * * Published 3 1 SCI retrieval papers, most of which were published in top magazines in this field. This paper involves many research directions, especially the research on equilibrium optimization has achieved a number of important theoretical achievements, including the first proposal of "Chen-Harker-Kanzow-Smale" polishing function commonly used in optimization field. According to statistics, during the period of 10, five papers were selected as highly cited mathematical papers in the world. All papers have been cited by SCI for more than 300 times. In 2006, he was awarded the National Natural Science Foundation (two-place fund). He is currently a member of the editorial board of Production and Operation Management magazine.

He teaches undergraduate, MBA and doctoral courses in operational research and operational management in the United States. Recently, he tried a new method of combining teaching with solving practical projects. Many suggestions and research results of the course project have been adopted and used by enterprises in the northwest of the United States, which has improved the operation of enterprises and achieved great economic benefits.

In the Business School of Washington State University, 1998 won the Scholar Award for Outstanding Contribution Research (one in the whole hospital every year); Won the Excellent Teacher Award in 2004 and 2007 (one in the whole hospital every year); In 2006, she won the Teacher Scholarship of Don and Marie Anne Palaccini. In 2003, he was selected as the final candidate of Marian E smith Teacher Achievement Award (one in the whole school every year) of Washington State University. :bintongchen@gmail.com contact e-mail address