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.