Wei Chen

Dr. Wei Chen is an international expert in behavioral and demographic economics and machine learning. A research fellow at the Computational and Digital Lab at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, she has consulted for an array of non-governmental organizations such as the World Bank and the United Nations, as well as published in internationally respected peer-reviewed journals. Wei’s research has been covered by Economist, the BBC, Le Monde, NASDAQ, Yahoo! Finance, the Atlantic, the Telegraph, and Brookings Institution.

Education

• Master of Computer and Information Technology University of Pennsylvania
• Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Fordham University
• Machine Learning Summer School University of Oxford

Companies

• Vice President, Data Science Citi (2021)
• Adjunct Professor Fordham University (2018 — 2021)
• Data Consultant World Bank Group (2018 — 2021)
• Data Consultant United Nations (2021 — 2021)
• Visiting Researcher Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (2020 — 2021)
• Penn MOSA Fellowship Committee Co-Director University of Pennsylvania (2020 — 2021)
• Guest Lecturer Columbia University in the City of New York (2019 — 2019)
• Research Intern United Nations (2017 — 2017)