Dr. 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. After finishing his obligatory military service (1989-91), he came to USA for his doctoral study with Prof. Yu-Chi (Larry) Ho and obtained his Ph.D. degree in Simulation and Decision from Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, in 1994.
Dr. Chen is a Professor of Systems Engineering & Operations Research at George Mason University, Fairfax, VA. He will join the Department of Electrical Engineering at National Taiwan University from 2011. He was an Assistant Professor of Systems Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, before joining GMU. His research interests cover a wide range of areas in discrete-event systems modeling and simulation, stochastic simulation optimization, rare-event simulation, and decision making 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, semiconductor systems, supply chain management, missile defense systems, power grids, and cyber security. 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, NIH, DOE, NASA, MDA, and FAA, Dr. Chen has worked on several critical issues in simulation optimization and its applications.
Dr. Chen has published more than 100 articles in leading journals and international conference proceedings. He is the author of the book “Stochastic Simulation Optimization: An Optimal Computing Budget Allocation”. Dr. Chen has served on several editorial boards for the leading journals in this area, such as department editor for IIE Transactions, associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, associate editor for the Control Systems Society Conferences (including both American Control Conference and IEEE Conference on Decision and Control), area editor of Journal of Simulation Modeling Practice and Theory, associate editor of International Journal of Simulation and Process Modeling, and associate editor for World Scientific Publishing Co. Dr. Chen is the Co-Editor of the 2002 Winter Simulation Conference Proceedings, Program Co-Chair of 2007 Informs Simulation Society Workshop, and Chair of Contributed Sessions Committee for 2008 Informs Annual Meeting.
Dr. Chen won the 1994 Harvard University Eliahu I. Jury Award. He received 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). He also received “National Thousand Talents Program" award (千人计划国家特聘专家) from China in 2011. Dr. Chen is an IEEE senior member and is listed in Who'sWho in the World, Who'sWho in America, Who'sWho in Science and Engineering, Who'sWho in Finance and Business, and Who'sWho in Education.
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