Louis H. Y. CHEN

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Curriculum Vitae

Academic Qualifications
  1. Ph.D. Stanford, 1971
  2. M.S. Stanford, 1969
  3. B.Sc. (Hons.) Singapore, 1964
Research Interests
  1. Applied probability
  2. Stein's method
  3. Applications to computational biology
Academic Appointments
  1. Tan Chin Tuan Centennial Professor, since July 2006.
  2. Professor, Department of Mathematics, National University of Singapore, since January 1989.
  3. Professor, Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, since April 1998.
  4. Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, National University of Singapore, January 1981 - December 1988.
  5. Senior Lecturer, Department of Mathematics, University of Singapore, January 1977 - December 1980 (with tenure since April 1978).
  6. Lecturer, Department of Mathematics, University of Singapore, April 1972 - December 1976.
  7. Temporary Assistant Lecturer, Department of Mathematics, University of Singapore, May 1966 - August 1967.
  8. Assistant Lecturer in Mathematics, Singapore Polytechnic, June 1964 - December 1965.
  9. Visiting Professor, Unité d'Enseignement et de Recherche de Mathematiques, Université de Provence, France, 11 May - 10 June 1991.
  10. Guest Lecturer, Department of Mathematics, Chalmers University of Technology and University of Goteborg, Sweden, 30 April 1979 - 18 May 1979.
  11. Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, U.S.A., Fall Semester 1978 - 79.
  12. Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, Stanford University, U.S.A., Summer Quarter 1978.
  13. Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Simon Fraser University, Canada, August 1971 - April 1972.
Administrative Appointments
  1. Director, Institute for Mathematical Sciences, since July 2000.
  2. Head, Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, 15 July 2002 - 30 June 2004.
  3. Head, Department of Mathematics, July 1996 - June 2000.
  4. Member, Nominating Committee for Honorary Degrees and Emeritus Professorships, 1 March 2003 - 30 June 2005.
  5. Member, Task Force on Tenure and Compensation, 14 April - 30 June 2003
  6. Member, University Promotion and Tenure Committee, 1 June 2001 - 30 June 2002.
  7. Member, Special Review Committee, 1 January - 31 May 2002.
  8. Member, Task Force on Restructuring of the Senate, 17 January 2002 - 16 April 2002.
  9. Acting Head, Department of Mathematics, 14 November 1988 - 15 November 1989.
  10. Divisional Head, Statistics Division, Department of Mathematics, October 1992 - March 1998.
  11. Chair, Department of Mathematics Professorial Review Committee, August 2000 - May 2001.
  12. Chair, Head Search Committee, Department of Mathematics, 2000.
  13. Member, Head Search Committee, Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, February - August 2003.
  14. Chair (April 1998 - July 1999), Member (August 1999 - May 2001), Academic Review Committee (formerly by other names), Department of Statistics and Applied Probability.
  15. Chair, SWIMS Committee, Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, August 2000 - June 2002.
  16. Member of the following Professorial Boards of Selection:
    - Economics & Statistics, October 1996 - March 1998;
    - Economics, April 1998 - May 2001;
    - Statistics and Applied Probability, April 1998 - May 2001;
    - Law, October 1996 - May 2001;
    - Business Administration, October 1996 - May 2001;
    - Computer Science, October 1996 - May 2001;
    - Computational Science, October 1996 - May 2001;
    - Physics, October 1996 - May 2001;
    - Philosophy, October 1996 - May 2001;
    - Political Science, October 1996 - May 2001;
    - Electrical & Computing Engineering, March 2001;
    - Mechanical Engineering, March 2001.
  17. Member, Faculty of Science Professorial Review Committee, September 1998 - May 2001.
  18. Member of the following Boards of Selection:
    - Economics & Statistics, July 1996 - March 1998;
    - Economics, April 1998 - May 2001;
    - Statistics and Applied Probability, April 1998 - May 2001.
  19. Member, Search Committee (formerly by another name), Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, January 1999 - May 2001.
  20. Chair (July 1983 - June 1985; July 1987 - November 1990; July 1991 - June 1996) and Member (July 1981 - June 1983; July 1986 - June 1987), Curriculum Committee, Department of Mathematics.
  21. Member, Engineering Faculty Board, July 1996 - June 2000.
  22. Member, Library Committee, July 1996 - June 2000.
  23. Faculty Representative, Alumni Liaison Committee, July 1989 - June 2000.
  24. Faculty Representative, Board of Admission, March 1987 - February 1996.
Editorial Services
  1. Associate Editor, BERNOULLI, Official Journal of the Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability, November 1993 - August 2000.
  2. Associate Editor, Statistica Sinica, November 1988 - July 1996.
  3. Member, Editorial Board, Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability, since December 1997.
  4. Advisor to World Scientific in Mathematics (Singapore), since October 1996.
  5. Series Editor, Lecture Notes Series, Institute for Mathematical Sciences, National University of Singapore, since December 2002.
Public Service
  1. Member, Education Service Commission, 16 August 1990 - 31 March 1998.
  2. Member, 1998 National Science Award Selection Committee.
  3. Member, 1999 National Science Award Selection Committee.
  4. Member, Panel of Judges, National Science Talent Search Award, 1997 - 1998, 2000.
  5. Member, National Science Talent Search Award Committee, 1996 - 1998.
  6. Member, Selection Panel for Singapore National Academy of Science Young Scientist Award, 2000, 2002.
  7. Member, Organizing Committee for Singapore National Academy of Science Young Scientist Award, 2001.
Service to the Scientific Community
  1. President, Institute of Mathematical Statistics (U.S.A.), August 2004 - July 2005.
  2. President, Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability, August 1997 - July 1999.
  3. Member, Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies, August 2003 – July 2006.
  4. Member, Corporation of National Institute for Statistical Sciences (U.S.A.), July 2004 - June 2005.
  5. Council Member, International Statistical Institute, August 1997 - August 1999.
  6. Founding Member, Advisory Committee, International Summer School of Statistics, since November 2002.
  7. Member, Loeve Prize Committee, 2003 & 2005.
  8. Chair (2001 - 03) and Member (2003 - 2005), East Asian and Pacific Regional Committee, Bernoulli Society.
  9. Member, Committee for Conferences on Stochastic Processes, Bernoulli Society, August 1993 - August 1999.
  10. Member, Committee on Nominations, Institute of Mathematical Statistics (U.S.A.), 1996 - 97 and 2000 - 01.
  11. President (1984 - 85 and 1988 - 91) and Honorary Secretary (1974 - 77 and 1980 - 82), Singapore Mathematical Society.
  12. President (1982 - 83) and Vice-President (1980 - 82), Singapore Institute of Statistics.
  13. Member, Outstanding Research Award Selection Committee of the R.O.C. National Science Council, March 1999.
  14. Member, Evaluation Committee for the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Cyprus, 1999-00.
Honors and Awards
  1. Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques 2005 (conferred by French Government).
  2. Distinguished Science Alumni Award 2004.
  3. Public Administration Medal (Silver) 2002 (Singapore National Day Award).
  4. Fellow (elected), Academy of Sciences for the Developing World 2000.
  5. Member (elected), International Statistical Institute 1999.
  6. NUS Staff Achievement Award 1998.
  7. Excellence for Singapore Award (Singapore) 1997.
  8. National Science and Technology Award (Singapore) 1991.
  9. Fellow (elected), Institute of Mathematical Statistics (U.S.A.) 1989.
  10. State Scholar 1961-64.
Conferences (Invited Lectures)
  1. Seventh Vietnam Mathematical Congress, 4 – 8 August 2008, Quy Nhon, Vietnam. (45-minute lecture)
  2. 9th World Conference of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA), 21 - 25 July 2008, Hamilton Island, Australia.
  3. IMS-China International Conference on Statistics and Probability 2008, 11 - 13 June 2008, Hangzhou, China.
  4. Advanced School and Conference on Statistics and Applied Probability in Life Sciences, 24 September - 12 October 2007, Miramare - Trieste, Italy. (Mini-course)
  5. Inaugural Lecture, SMS Lecture Series (organized by Singapore Mathematical Society), 2 March 2007, Singapore.
  6. Workshop on Asymptotic Theory in Probability and Statistics in honor of Zhengyan Lin, 23 - 25 June 2006, Hangzhou, China.
  7. Third International Workshop in Applied Probability (IWAP2006), 15 - 18 May 2006, Storrs, Connecticut, USA. (Plenary Lecture)
  8. Applied Probability Day, 12 May 2006, Center for Applied Probability, Columbia University, USA.
  9. International Statistical Conference: Statistics in the Technological Age, 27 - 31 December 2005, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. (Plenary Lecture.)
  10. Conference in Probability with Applications to Finance and Insurance (in honor of Tze Leung Lai), 19 - 21 December 2005, Hong Kong.
  11. Statistics and Probability Conference in Memory of Ching-Zong Wei, 12 - 14 December 2005, Taipei, Taiwan.
  12. Mathematics 2005: Opportunity and Challenge, 25 - 29 July 2005, Wei-hai, China. (45-minute Lecture.)
  13. 2nd International Conference on Abstract and Applied Analysis, 4 - 9 June 2005, Quy Nhon, Vietnam. (Plenary Lecture.)
  14. International Conference on the Future of Statistical Theory, Practice and Education, 29 December 2004 - 1 January 2005, Hyderabad, India. (Plenary Lecture.)
  15. Malaysian Science and Technology Congress, 5 - 7 October 2004, Putrajaya, Malaysia. (Plenary Lecture.)
  16. Risk Analysis: Statistical and Probabilistic Methods (in honor of Jozef L. Teugels), 26 - 27 May 2004, Leuven, Belgium.
  17. Second International Workshop in Applied Probability, 22 - 25 March 2004, Piraeus, Greece. (Invited speaker and organizer of an invited session.)
  18. International Conference: Kolmogorov and Contemporary Mathematics, in Commemoration of the Centennial of Andrei Nikolaevich Kolmogorov, 16 - 21 June 2003, Moscow, Russia. (45-minute Lecture.)
  19. International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians (ICCM), 17 - 22 December 2001, Taipei, Taiwan. (45-minute Lecture.)
  20. Combinatorics, Probability and Computing, 23 - 29 September 2001, Oberwolfach, Germany.
  21. International Conference on Recent Developments in Statistics and Its Applications, 26 - 28 June 2001, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
  22. Perspectives of Mathematical Research in China for the 21st Century, 28 - 30 May 2001, Hong Kong.
  23. Third Asian Mathematical Conference, 23 - 27 October 2000, Diliman, Philippines. (Plenary Lecture.)
  24. 28th Lunteren Meeting, 15 - 17 November 1999, Lunteren, The Netherlands.
  25. 26th Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications, 14 - 18 June 1999, Beijing, China.
  26. International Conference on Recent Advances in Probability and Statistics, 3 - 5 June 1999, Athens, Greece.
  27. Recent Advances in Statistics and Probability, 29 December 1997 - 1 January 1998, Calcutta, India. (Invited speaker and organizer of the invited paper session "Poisson Approximation".)
  28. Random Graphs and Combinatorial Structures, 29 September - 3 October 1997, Oberwolfach, Germany.
  29. Symposium on Probability Towards 2000, 2 - 6 October 1995, New York, USA.
  30. The 3rd World Congress of the Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability and the 57th Annual Meeting of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 20 - 25 June 1994, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA. (Invited speaker and organizer of the invited paper session "Poisson Approximation".)
  31. Sixth International Vilnius Conference on Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics, 28 June - 3 July 1993, Vilnius, Lithuania.
  32. Workshop on Stochastic Analysis and Its Applications, 31 May - 5 June 1993, Taipei, Taiwan.
  33. Symposium on Poisson Approximation, 14 March 1991, University of Southern California, USA.
  34. First ICSA Conference on Recent Developments in Statistical Research, 15 - 17 December 1990, Hong Kong.
  35. Conference on Gaussian Random Fields, 15 - 20 August 1990, Nagoya, Japan.
  36. Supplementary Meeting to the 15th Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications, 15 - 19 December 1986, Nagoya, Japan.
  37. 1986 International Statistical Symposium, 3 - 5 August 1986, Taipei, Taiwan.
  38. First Franco-Southeast Asian Mathematical Conference, 14 May - 1 June 1979, Singapore.

 

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