Biography:

Dr. Din Chen is the Karl Peace Endowed Eminent Scholar Chair in Biostatistics and Professor of Biostatistics in the Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health (JPHCOPH) at Georgia Southern University. He received his Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Guleph (Ontario, Canada) in 1995, M.S. in Statistics from Hunan University (Hunan, China) in 1987 and undergraduate in Mathematics from Jishou University (Hunan, China) in 1981.

Dr. Chen has extensive experience in teaching, research and biostatistical consulting. He was a teacher and lecturer in China for ten years and taught an array of courses in mathematics and theory in probability, statistics and stochastic process. He continued his teaching career in Canada and USA. When he was a professor at the South Dakota State University, he created a series of courses using R/SAS for master and Ph.D. students in statistical modeling and computing, bioassay, Bayesian modeling, clinical trials, survival modeling, longitudinal data analysis and spatial/GIS modeling integrating his research and extensive knowledge in biostatistical applications with an innovative, open-question style to encourage students for inquiry and stimulating for active learning.

Dr. Chen’s research and biostatistical consulting have been primarily on applied biostatistics in collaboration with public health researchers on microarray, genetics, clinical trials, environmental and toxicological applications along with biostatistical methodological development in Bayesian model, survival analysis and statistics in biological assays. In microarray and genetics, he developed several collaborations with University of Washington in Seattle, South Dakota State University in Brookings, and Northwestern University in Chicago which led to an array of scientific publications and research proposals. In biomedical clinical trials, he developed several collaborations and consulting projects with medical schools, hospitals and government agencies as well as several biopharmaceutical companies which produced several scientific publications and funded research projects. In addition, Dr. Chen carried out his research on biostatistical methodological development. He has been developing a Bayesian and an empirical Bayesian model for clinical and pre-clinical statistics, survival models to analyze the time-to-event data, longitudinal data analysis, and biological-based models for biological and chemical interaction to quantify the impact of environmental estrogens or pollutants to human health. More than 70 peer reviewed publications have been generated from these research and collaborations.

Dr. Chen is an adjunct professor for several universities and served as editor/peer reviewer for several statistics journals as well as a professional member for several professional societies and associations. He also served on several university and departmental committees for program development and as faculty mentor.

In his spare time, Dr. Chen enjoys fishing, bike-riding and playing with his daughter.