Associate Professor Feng Chen

Associate Professor Feng Chen

Associate Professor
Science
School of Mathematics & Statistics

ABOUT ME

 

Biography

I am an Associate Professor in Statistics at the School of Mathematics and Statistics. My research interest is in the broad area of developing statistical methods to model real-life phenomena and make inferences. I have taught courses on statistics, probability and stochastic processes from the introductory level to the postgraduate level, as well as applied statistics courses.  

Education

  • PhD in Statistics, the University of Hong Kong, 2008
  • MSc in Applied Proba...
Phone
+61-2-9385 7026
E-mail
feng.chen@unsw.edu.au
Location
School of Mathematics and Statistics University of New South Wales Sydney NSW 2052 The Red Centre Room 1031

  • Feng Chen, Tom Stindl, William Dunsmuir, Jiancang Zhuang. "Inference for Hawkes processes with challenging data", Australian Research Council, Discovery Project. 2024 - 2026, $463,452. 
  • Ying-Yeh Chen, Feng Chen, Yu-Shan Yang, Shu-Ping Lin. "Exploring the Impact of Social Media and Internet Use on Suicide Behavior on Youth: A Mixed Method Study", Taiwan Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) grant. Aug 2022- Jul 2025, NTD $4,285,233 (~AUD$210K).

  • UNSW Science 2023 Staff Impact Award - Research Innovation. 

  •  Guest Editor for the JABES (Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics) Special issue "The Hawkes Process: Theory, Methodology, Algorithms, Extension, and Applications in Environmental Sciences"
  • Associate Editor for ACM Transactions on Probabilistic Machine Learning (2023 --)
  • Associate Editor for the Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference (2019--)
  •  Director of Research Postgraduate Studies - Future Students, School of Mathematics and Statistics, UNSW Sydney (2023 -- )
  • Statistics Research Posgraduate Coordinator, UNSW School of Mathematics and Statistics (2019 -- 2022)
  • Statistics Honours Coordinator, School of Mathematics and Statistics, UNSW (2013 -- 2018)
  •  Member of the Scientific Committee of the 3rd International Conference on Econometrics and Statistics (EcoSta 2019), and organizer and chair of Session EO075 -- Advances in Hawkes processes and their applications

My Research Supervision

  • Hanwen Xuan (2021 --, with Clara Grazian and Luca Maestrini): Black-Litterman model
  • Kevin Pan (2022 --, with Pavel Krivitsky): Network sampling