Former Postdoctoral Fellow
Harvard Medical School

Dr. Chen received her PhD in Interdisciplinary Statistics and Operations Research from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and an MS in Operations Research from Columbia University, New York. She obtained her BS in Electrical Engineering from the Southeastern University in Nanjing, China. With an innate interest in math, Dr. Chen was wheeled back to the major of Operations Research after stumbling across a class in Stochastic Modeling at Columbia University. Her graduate research was centered around applying statistical analysis, Queueing Theory, and simulation techniques to streamline patient flows in emergency departments. She has always enjoyed working in the healthcare management industry, where she cooperates with professionals with various technical backgrounds to combine group wisdom into advancing innovative healthcare operations and cost-effective healthcare policies. At the ITA, she worked with Dr. Jagpreet Chhatwal on the development of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) progression model.