Songxi Chen

Professor Chen Song Xi joined the Guanghua School of Management in May 2008 and is now Co-Chair of the Department of Business Statistics and Econometrics. He also serves as Director of Center for Statistical Science at Peking University. Chen graduated from Beijing Normal University with bachelor's degree in mathematics and a master's degree in Mathematical Statistics. In 1990 he received another master's degree in Statistics and Operations Research from Victoria University of Wellington. In 1993, he obtained a Ph.D in Statistics from Australian National University.

His research interests are Empirical likelihood: Second order properties and various applications; Analysis on Missing data; Multiple System Survey for US Census; and inference for stochastic processes, especially with regards to diffusion processes as well as inference for high dimensional data. He teaches Special Topics in Statistics and Advanced Econometrics in PhD program.

Research Areas

• Environmental Statistics and Management
• Econometrics
• Theoretical Statistics

Education Background

• 1993 Australian National University statistics
  
• 1990 Victoria University of Wellington Statistics and Operations Research
  
• 1988 Beijing Normal University Mathematical Statistics
• 1983 Beijing Normal University Mathematics

Career Experience

• 2008-present - Chair Professor, Department of Business Statistics and Econometrics, Guanghua School of Management, Peking University
• 2006-2017 - Professor of Statistics, Department of Statistics, Iowa State University
• 2003-2006 - Associate Professor, Iowa State University
• 2000-2005 - Associate Professor, National University of Singapore
• 1995-2000 - Senior Lecturer/Lecturer, La Trobe University
• 1992-1995 - Statistician, CSIRO Marine Science and Biometrics Unit.2
• 1983-1985 - Lecturer, Beijing Institute of Economics