Assoc Professor Ying Chen
Associate Professor, Fintech Research, Integrative Sciences and Engineering
Jt Appt - Assoc Prof, Economics, Arts and Social Sciences
Jt Appt - Assoc Professor, Statistics and Data Science, Science
Jt Appt - Assoc Prof, Research and Teaching, Risk Management Institute
Doctor of Philosophy, Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, Germany
Bachelor of Science, Renmin University of China, China
Dr. Ying Chen is a financial statistician and data scientist. She develops statistical modelling and machine learning methods customized for nonstationary, high frequency and large dimensional complex data such as cryptocurrency, limit order book, and renewable energy. She also works on forecasting, citation analysis, quantum computing, text mining and sentiment analysis, and network analysis.Dr. Chen is Associate Professor in Department of Mathematics, Academic Director of PhD Program in Digital FinTech in the Asian Institute of Digital Finance (1 July 2022 to 30 June 2024), and Joint Appointee in the Risk Management Institute (1 July 2019 to 30 June 2023), National University of Singapore. She also holds Joint Appointment in Department of Statistics and Data Science (1 January 2019 to 31 December 2023), and Courtesy Appointment in Department of Economics (April 1, 2018 to March 31, 2023) at the National University of Singapore. She is also Faculty member in NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering since July 2016.Dr. Chen is Associate Editor of 4 journals including Statistica Sinica (August 1, 2017 to July 31, 2020), Statistics and Its Interface, Digital Finance, and Journal of Operations Research and Decisions. She is ISI Elected Member since March 2016. She is Council Member of the International Statistical Institute for the period 2023 – 2027. She is Scientific Secretary (August 2017 to July 2019) and member of Executive Committee of the International Association for Statistical Computing (IASC) from July 2017 and Board of Director ordinary member of the Asian Regional Section (ARS) of IASC. She is regular member of the Advisory Board of Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Japan from 1 April 2018 to 31 March 2022.
Forecasting Non-stationary Time Series Analysis High Frequency Data and Limit Order Book Functional Data Analysis and Network Analytics Quantum Computing in FinanceCitation analysis and research metricsText Mining and Sentiment Analysis Renewable Energy Data Analytics