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Secretary-General Chun-Houh Chen      

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1992 Ph.D., Mathematics , University of California, Los Angeles

Introduction      
　　Secretary-General Chen, Chun-houh obtained his bachelor's degree from the Department of Statistics at the College of Law and Business of National Chung Hsing University (the predecessor of the National Taipei University) in 1984, and then obtained a master's degree (1990) and doctorate (1992) in Mathematics from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). His areas of expertise include multivariate statistical methods, exploratory data analysis (EDA), data/information/matrix visualization, dimension reduction, machine/deep learning, biobanking, bioinformatics, precision/intelligent health.

　　Dr. Chen is an internationally renowned statistician. He has served as an assistant professor in the Department of Statistics/Computer and Information Systems at the George Washington University (1992-1993), Assistant Research Fellow (1993-2002), Associate Research Fellow (2002-2011), and Research Fellow (2011-) at the Institute of Statistical Science of Academia Sinica. He served as the Chairperson of the Asian Regional Section (ARS) of the International Association for Statistical Computation (IASC) (2013-2015), Council of the International Statistical Institute (ISI) (2015-2019), and is the current president of the IASC (2023-2025). Dr. Chen's most important research results are the Generalized Association Plots (GAP) series of matrix visualization methods and software, which are important visualization tools in the field of EDA, and can be used to visualize continuous, binary, ordinal, categorical, symbolic, and cartography data with high-dimensional/large sample structure. In recent years, Dr. Chen has invested in precision and intelligent health-related research and practical work, leading the Academia Sinica related research and application programs with academia and the medical community.

　   Dr. Chen also actively participates in domestic academic administrative services. He has served as president of the Chinese Institute of Probability and Statistics (2013-2016), current president of the Chinese Statistical Association (2024-), director of the Academic Affairs and Instrument Services, Academia Sinica (2016-2017), deputy director of the Institute of Statistical Science (2012-2016), director (2017-2023), co-convener of the Data Science Degree Program jointly organized by Academia Sinica and National Taiwan University (2017-2023), co-PI in charge of Informatics of the Taiwan Biobank (2018-2022), co-PI of the Taiwan Precision Medicine Initiative (TPMI) (2019-), the Deputy Secretary-General of Academia Sinica (2023-2024) and currently also serves as the Secretary-General of Academia Sinica (2024-).