Owen Chen, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

North Carolina, United States

Leading the development of Generative AI applications in Cognitive Computing.

North Carolina, United States

Cary, North Carolina, United States

Volunteer as a board member and the chair of the board for the Chinese Association of Science and Technology - NC Chapter (CAST-NC) - a non-profit organization dedicated for scientists and engineers in North Carolina. For events organized by CAST-NC, please visit http://www.castnc.org

Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area

Cary, North Carolina

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

Taught a graduate level course on Credit Risk Modeling with SAS for NCSU Financial Math master students.

Winston Salem, North Carolina

-Design a common platform for credit risk models and credit loss forecasts for CCAR and CECL.-Propose SAS Coding Standards for Production Code-Refactor and optimize SAS code to run on a multi-threaded and distributed SAS Grid environment.-Review methodology and code on probability of default (PD), loss given default (LGD) model, exposure at default (EAD), balance and income forecast models. -Improve the code development process by introducing Git for version control, collaboration and issue tracking. -Automate build, test and production runs with UNIX Bash, Python and Perl scripts.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

-Researched methodology on SAS ETS procedures for econometric modeling, time-series analysis, time-series forecasting and risk modeling.-Developed a discrete choice modeling procedure (CMDC) in the SAS cloud computing platform (SAS Viya). The procedure has applications in product marketing, consumer choice analysis, financial and insurance product selection and credit risk assessment.-Developed a high-performance choice analysis procedure (HPMDC) in the SAS/HPETS.-Designed solution architecture for the SAS Retail Solutions, including SAS Markdown Optimization, SAS Regular Price Optimization, SAS Promotion Optimization, SAS Size Profiling and SAS Pack Optimization.-Developed new methods and algorithms in C for demand modeling, optimization, and forecasting on retail big data.-Developed many modules and utilities in SAS for all solutions across the SAS Retail Suites. -Contributed to the SAS Macro Standards as a Member of the SAS Macro Standard Committee.-Trained professional services consultants and supported large-scale solution deployments for many large retail customers such as Macys’, JC Penny, Home Depot, Kohl’s, Sears, Hudson Bay Company, Sobey’s and Stage Stores.

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Taught graduate courses in forecasting and time series methods, and supply chain management

Cambridge, Ma

-Helped customers streamline business processes with best industry practices and enabling technologies. on demand planning, master planning, inventory planning, transportation planning and demand fulfillment.-Designed and implemented more than 15 large-scale supply chain management and analytics projects for large global corporations. Generated millions of dollars in savings for customers by reducing inventory, increasing sales, improving customer service, and reducing manufacturing and logistics costs.-Managed projects in all aspects: business releases, project plan, budget, scope, timeline, resources, risk management, communications, value measurement and technology implementations.-A sample list of customers includes Adidas, Nike, VF Corp., Sara Lee Corp., LEGO Group, Clarks, and Carter’s.

Ph.D., Operations Research And Logistics

Activities and Societies: Operations Research Center, Center for Transportation and Logistics (CTL), Supply Chain ManagementReceived.

M.A., Economics, 3.8/4.0

Received a merit-based full scholarship. Relevant courses included statistics, microeconomics, macroeconomics, and econometrics.

B.S., Economics, 3.9/4.0

USTC is the best science and engineering university in China. Received a merit-based scholarship every semester.