Yuguo Chen

Yuguo Chen is a Professor of Statistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His work mainly focuses on Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms and network analysis.

Yuguo Chen
Alma mater	University of Science and Technology of China Stanford University
Scientific career
Institutions	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Thesis	Sequential Importance Sampling with Resampling: Theory and Applications (2001)
Doctoral advisor	Tze Leung Lai Jun S. Liu
Website	publish.illinois.edu/yuguo/

He received a B.S. in mathematics from University of Science and Technology of China in 1997 and a Ph.D. in Statistics at Stanford University in 2001[1] under the supervision of Tze Leung Lai and Jun S. Liu.[2] 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.[3]

He has an Erdős number of 2 after publishing a paper with Persi Diaconis.[4]

Selected publications

• "State and parameter estimation of hydrologic models using the constrained ensemble Kalman filter". Water Resources Research. doi:10.1029/2008WR007401
• "Sequential Monte Carlo Methods for Statistical Analysis of Tables". Journal of the American Statistical Association 100:109–120. doi:10.1198/016214504000001303

References

1. "Yuguo Chen IEEE Xplore Author Details". IEEE Xplore. Retrieved 19 April 2020.
2. "Yuguo Chen". Mathematics Genealogy Project. Retrieved 19 April 2020.
3. "Yuguo Chen". University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Department of Statistics. Retrieved 19 April 2020.
4. Chen, Yuguo; Diaconis, Persi; Holmes, Susan P.; Liu, Jun S. (2005). "Sequential Monte Carlo Methods for Statistical Analysis of Tables". Journal of the American Statistical Association. 100 (469): 109–120. doi:10.1198/016214504000001303. ISSN 0162-1459. JSTOR 27590522. S2CID 1574667.

External links

• University of Illinois homepage
• Yuguo Chen publications indexed by Google Scholar