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 business intelligence, forecasting, text mining and sentiment analysis, and network analysis.

Dr. Chen is Associate Professor in Department of Mathematics and Joint Appointee in Risk Management Institute (1 July 2019 to 30 June 2021),  National University of Singapore. She also holds Joint Appointment in Department of Statistics and Applied Probability (1 January 2019 to 31 December 2021), and Courtesy Appointment in Department of Economics (April 1, 2018 to March 31, 2021) 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 5 journals including Statistica Sinica (August 1, 2017 to July 31, 2020), Statistics and Its Interface, Computational Statistics, Digital Finance, and Journal of Operations Research and Decisions. She is ISI Elected Member since March 2016. 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 2020.