His research focuses on mathematical modeling and computation in quantitative finance and efficient numerical algorithms for?partial differential equations?and integral equations arising in science and engineering.
Chen has a B.Sc. in financial mathematics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and a Ph.D. in applied mathematics from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He held?postdoctoral positions at the University of California, Berkeley, from 2017 to 2021.