Dr. Victoria Chen is Professor of IMSE at UT Arlington. She served as Interim Chair from 2012-14. She was the George & Elizabeth Pickett Professor in 2015-2017, and she was inducted in the UT Arlington Academy of Distinguished Teachers in 2019.

She co-founded, with Dr. H. W. Corley, the Center on Stochastic Modeling, Optimization, & Statistics (https://cosmos.uta.edu/). From 1993-2001, she was on the Industrial & Systems Engineering faculty at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She holds a B.S. in Mathematical Sciences from The Johns Hopkins University, and M.S. and Ph.D. in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering from Cornell University.

Dr. Chen is actively involved with the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Science (INFORMS) and is currently serving as Secretary on the Executive Board. She has previously served as cluster chair, session organizer/chair, officers for the INFORMS Section on Data Mining and for the Forum for Women in OR/MS, and on the INFORMS Subdivisions Council.

 

Dr. Chen’s research utilizes statistical perspectives to create new methodologies for operations research problems appearing in engineering and science.

She has expertise in the design of experiments, statistical modeling, and data mining, particularly for computer experiments and stochastic optimization.

Through her statistics-based approach, she has developed computationally-tractable decision-making methods for many high-dimensional complex systems, including applications in inventory forecasting, airline optimization, water reservoir networks, wastewater treatment, air quality, green building, nurse assignment, and pain management.