Chun-Hung Chen received the B.S. degree in Control Engineering from National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan, in 1987, and the M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University, Taiwan, in 1989. During 1989-1991, he participated in a C3I project while performing his obligatory service in the Taiwan military. After finishing his obligatory military service, he worked with Dr. Larry Ho and obtained his Ph.D. degree in Simulation and Decision from Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, in 1994.
Dr. Chen is an Associate Professor of Systems Engineering & Operations Research at George Mason University, Fairfax, VA. He was an Assistant Professor of Systems Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, before he joins GMU. His interests cover a wide range of areas in discrete event systems modeling and simulation, Monte Carlo simulation, optimization, network management, and systems design under uncertainty. Recently, he has been engaged in the development of very efficient approaches for stochastic simulation and decision problems, and in their applications to air traffic systems, supply chain management, network design, logistics, manufacturing, scheduling, robot motion planning, stochastic equilibrium problems, and robust engineering design problems. 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. Sponsored by NSF, NASA, and FAA, Dr. Chen has worked on several critical issues in the analysis and management of the US air traffic network.
Dr. Chen has published more than 70 articles in leading journals and international conference proceedings. He is serving on the program committees of international conferences and on several editorial boards such as Winter Simulation Conference and the Control Systems Society Conferences (including both American Control Conference and IEEE Conference on Decision and Control). He is the Co-Editor of the 2002 Winter Simulation Conference Proceedings.
Dr. Chen won the 1994 Harvard University Eliahu I. Jury Award for the Best Thesis in the field of Control. He is one of the recipients of the 1992 MasPar Parallel Computer Challenge Award and the 2003 Kayamori Best Automation Paper Award from IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (total 1176 papers submitted for review). Dr. Chen is an IEEE senior member and is listed in Who'sWho in America and Who'sWho in Engineering Education.
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