Chun-Hung Chen

              Professor of Systems Engineering & Operations Research

              Department of Systems Engineering & Operations Research
              George Mason University
              4400 University Drive, MS 4A6
              Fairfax, VA 22030, USA

Email: cchen9@gmu.edu

Phone: 703-993-3572

Fax: 703-993-1521

Office Location: Nguyen Engineering Building, Room 2213, in the Fairfax Campus.

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Short biography

Full CV (in pdf format)

Research

Sponsored by NSF, NIH, DOE, NASA, MDA, and FAA, Dr. Chen has worked on the development of very efficient methodology for stochastic simulation optimization and its applications to air transportation system, semiconductor manufacturing, healthcare, security network, power grids, and missile defense system. Dr. Chen is the inventor of the novel simulation idea, called Optimal Computing Budget Allocation (OCBA), which can dramatically improve simulation efficiency by orders of magnitude. For a list of his funded projects and publications, please click the Full CV.

Book:

Dr. Chen is the author of the book “Stochastic Simulation Optimization: An Optimal Computing Budget Allocation”. This book gives a comprehensive and extensive coverage on this efficient simulation optimization methodology, from basic idea, formal development, to the state-of-art. The book can be ordered at Amazon.com.

Teaching

OR 335/SYST 335 Discrete Systems Simulation Modeling-- Undergraduate-level simulation class
OR 442/MATH 442 Stochastic Operations Research -- Introduction to stochastic operations research methods (undergraduate level)
OR 542 Operations Research: Stochastic Models -- Introduction to stochastic operations research methods (master level)
OR 635 Discrete System Simulation -- Master-level simulation class
OR 645/STAT 645 Stochastic Processes -- Graduate class about stochastic processes modeling and analysis
OR 647 Queueing Theory -- Graduate class about queueing systems analysis and theory
OR 735/SYST 735 Advanced Stochastic Simulation -- Ph.D.-level simulation class (also suitable for Master students with OR 635 background)

Work Experience

Professor/Associate Professor, Dept. of Systems Engineering & Operations Research, George Mason University, 2000-Present
Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, 2011-12
Professor, Institute of Industrial Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, 2011-12
Coordinator, Molecular Imaging Center, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, 2011-12
Coordinator, Graduate Program of Systems Engineering & Operations Research, George Mason University, 2006-11
Visiting Scholar, Microsoft Research Asia Laboratory, Beijing, China, 2009
Visiting Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, 2006
Acting Chairman, Graduate Group of Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, 1999
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, 1994-2000
Second Lieutenant, Manager, Headquarter of Taiwan Navy, Taipei, Taiwan, 1989-91

Education

Ph.D., Harvard University, 1991-94
M.S., National Taiwan University, Taiwan, 1987-89
B.S., National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan, 1983-87

Awards

“National Thousand Talents” Award (“千人计划” 国家特聘专家) from the Central Government of China, 2011
“Kayamori Best Automation Paper Awar” from the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (total 1176 papers submitted for review), 2003
Harvard University Eliahu I. Jury Award for The Best Thesis in Decision and Control field, 1994
MasPar Parallel Computer Challenge Award, Highest Speedup in the Realized Performance, 1992

Editorial Boards / Conference Organizers

Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 2012-Present
Departmental Editor, IIE Transactions, 2008-Present
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2007-2013
Associate Editor, Book Series on System Engineering and Operations Research, World Scientific Publishing Co., 2007-Present
Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Simulation and Process Modeling, 2004-Present
Associate Editor, IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, 2012
Guest Editor, special issues on simulation optimization and its applications, IIE Transactions, 2012
Chair of Contributed Sessions Committee, 2008 Informs Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, 2008 (more than 4000 papers presented)
Area Editor, Journal of Simulation Modeling Practice and Theory (International Journal of the Federation of European Simulation Societies -- EUROSIM), 2008-2011
Program Co-Chair, The 1st Informs Simulation Society Workshop, 2007
Editorial Board Member, Open Automation and Control Systems Journal, 2007-2010
Associate Editor of the IEEE Control Systems Society (responsible for American Control Conference, IEEE Conference of Decision and Control, and Conference on Control Applications), 2000-2007
Guest Editor, special issue on Optimization Under Uncertainty, Optimization and Engineering Journal, 2004
Co-Editor, 2002 Winter Simulation Conference, San Diego, CA, 2002

Chun-Hung Chen