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Yuguo Chen is a Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he also serves as the Director of the Illinois Statistics Office. His academic affiliations include the Department of Computer Science, Information Trust Institute, and Computational Science Engineering, as well as the Illinois Informatics Institute. Prior to his current role, he was an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences at Duke University from 2001 to 2005. His research focuses on Monte Carlo theory methodology and its applications to scientific problems, statistical inference in network data, state space models for dynamic systems, and bioinformatics, particularly in population genetics.
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