Jiangzhuo Chen is a research associate professor. Chen received his BA in Economics from Nanjing University, MA. in Economics from Boston College, and PhD in Computer Science from Northeastern University. Dr. Chen’s dissertation explores confluent flows. Chen was a post-doctoral researcher and a senior research associate in the Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Laboratory at the Biocomplexity Institute of Virginia Tech. Chen’s work has been published in journals and peer-reviewed conferences, such as the Journal of the ACM, ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation, PLOS ONE, Computational Economics, JEBO, STOC, and ICS.
His current projects include high-performance simulation of social network dynamics (software developed: EpiFast, Indemics); modeling of synthetic population and social network (GlobalPop); and forecasting of epidemics (Social Eyes/FluCaster).
- Education
Northeastern University, Computer Science, Ph.D., 2005
Boston College, Economics, M.A., 1998
Nanjing University, Economics, B.A., 1995