William Y.C. Chen

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William Yong-Chuan "Bill" Chen is a Chinese politician and applied mathematician.

He received his doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1991, under the direction of Gian-Carlo Rota. [1]

Between 1991 and 1996, Chen was a research fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory, working with James D. Louck. In 1996 he returned to China, founding the Center for Combinatorics at Nankai University. [2] He also founded Annals of Combinatorics, a scientific journal published by Birkhäuser. [3] He is on the editorial board of Advances in Applied Mathematics. [4]

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References

  1. William Y.C. Chen at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. "Bill Chen's Field of Dreams" . Retrieved September 13, 2023.
  3. Knauer, Kolja; Konvalinka, Matjaž; Mishna, Marni (2020). "Dear readers". Annals of Combinatorics . 24 (1): 1. doi: 10.1007/s00026-020-00491-7 .
  4. "Advances in Applied Mathematics, Editorial board" . Retrieved September 13, 2023.