Areas of Focus
- High-dimensional data analysis
- Statistical inference for stochastic processes in finance
- Statistical models for air quality assessment
- Statistical methods for epidemiology
Work Experience
- 2008 - Present: Peking University, Professor, Chair Professor
- 2003-2017: Iowa State University, Department of Statistics, Tenured Associate Professor, Professor
- 2000-2003: National University of Singapore, Associate Professor
- 1995-2000: La Trobe University, Australia, Lecturer, Senior Lecturer (Tenured)
- 1992-1995: CSIRO Marine Laboratories, Australia, Statistician
Publications
- A Two Sample Test for Ultra High Dimensional Data with Applications to Gene Sets Testing, Chen, S.X. and Qin, Y-L., 2010
- Two-Sample and ANOVA Tests for High Dimensional Means, Chen, S.X., Li, J. and Zhong, P-S., 2019
- PM2.5 Data Reliability, Consistency and Air Quality Assessment in Five Chinese Cities, Liang, X., Li, S., Zhang, SY, Huang, H. and S.X. Chen, 2016
- Meteorological Change and Impacts on Air Pollution Results from North China, Xu,Z., Chen, S.X. and X. Wu, 2020
- Better strategies for containing COVID-19 pandemic: a study of 25 countries via a vSIADR model, Yan, H., Zhu, YR., Gu, J., Huang, YX., Sun, HX., Zhang, XY., Wang, YT., Qiu, YM. and Chen, S.X., 2021
Awards
- 2009: Fellow, American Statistical Association
- 2009: Fellow, Institute of Mathematical Statistics
- 2011: Elected Member, International Statistics Institute
- 2017: First Class Prize in Natural Sciences, Ministry of Education, Independent
- 2018: Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
