Yuguo Chen

Yuguo Chen is a professor of statistics and the interim chair of the Department of Statistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

[1] His work mainly focuses on Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms and network analysis.

in mathematics from University of Science and Technology of China in 1997 and a Ph.D. in statistics at Stanford University in 2001[2] under the supervision of Tze Leung Lai and Jun S.

[3] Prior to joining the University of Illinois, he was an assistant professor at the Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences at Duke University from 2001 to 2005.

[4] Chen was named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2018.