William Y.C. Chen

William Yong-Chuan "Bill" Chen is a Chinese politician and applied mathematician.

He received his doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1991, under the direction of Gian-Carlo Rota.^[1]

Between 1991 and 1996, Chen was a research fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory, working with James D. Louck. In 1996 he returned to China, founding the Center for Combinatorics at Nankai University.^[2] He also founded Annals of Combinatorics, a scientific journal published by Birkhäuser.^[3] He is on the editorial board of Advances in Applied Mathematics.^[4]