Dr. Jian Chen, Special-Term Professor of Practice in Finance at the International School of Finance, Fudan University and the Executive Vice President of the Chengdu Fudan Western Financial Research Institute.

His teaching courses include Real Estate Finance, Structured Finance, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Finance, and Climate Finance. His main research areas include real estate finance, climate economics and climate finance, financial applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning, pension finance, credit risk, and asset securitization. His book, Large Language Models in Finance (co-authored), has been published by Peking University Press; Climate Finance – A Comprehensive Guide to Financial Strategies in a Changing Climate has been published by Springer Nature; and Climate Finance (Chinese version) is forthcoming from Fudan University Press.

Dr. Jian Chen is the founder and CEO of CreditWise Technologies, a FinTech firm specializes in AI and Big Data technologies to provide our clients with credit risk models and algorithms to facilitate their investment and business decisions. He also serves as the senior advisor of Caixin Insight Group, a prestigious think tank in China. He previously held the positions of Managing Partner of RQuest Financial Services Group, Managing Director in IFE Group, Risk Modeling Director in Freddie Mac, Director of Credit Risk Management in Fannie Mae. He recently created the COVID-19 Global Risk Index (http://covid19-risk-index.com/) to assess the risk of each country in the pandemic, together with Dr. Zhang, Wenhong of Huashan Hospital.

Dr. Chen currently holds the academic position of adjunct professor, for real estate finance (REF) and structured finance products (SFP) courses Fudan university, a senior research fellow at Shanghai Institute of Advanced Finance (SAIF) in Shanghai Jiaotong University. He also serves as the visiting professor of PKU-Fordham joint PhD program. He previously served as an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, where he taught MBA-level finance courses. Dr. Chen's academic research interests include discrete event modeling, real estate finance and economics, fixed income securities pricing & hedging, consumer behavior modeling, and quantitative risk management.

Dr. Chen writes column articles for several prominent Chinese newspaper and periodicals, including Wenhui Bao, South Reviews Magazine, CAIXIN Media.

Dr. Chen has his BS in EE from Xi'an Jiaotong University, his MS in EE from Shanghai Jiaotong University, and his Ph.D. in Management Science with concentration on Computational Finance, from Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland at College Park.

(Updated by June 2026)