Jian Chen, Special-Term Professor of Practice in Finance at the International School of Finance, Fudan University.

Dr. Jian Chen teaches "Real Estate Finance", "Structured Finance", “Machine Learning & AI in Finance” to students enrolled in EMF, MBA, and EMBA programs. His research interests and teaching areas include climate finance, the application of artificial intelligence (AI) in finance, aging finance, credit risk and asset securitization. His new book, Large Language Models: Applications in Finance, will be published by the Peking University Press.

Dr. Chen is the founder and CEO of CreditWise Technologies, a fintech firm that specializes in AI and big data technologies to provide credit risk models and algorithms to clients for informed investment and business decisions. He is also a senior advisor to Caixin Insight Group, a renowned think tank in China. Previously, he served as Managing Partner of RQuest Financial Services Group, Managing Director at IFE Group, Risk Modeling Director at Freddie Mac, and Director of Credit Risk Management at Fannie Mae.

Dr. Chen is also a prolific writer and has authored column articles for several prominent Chinese newspapers and periodicals, including Wenhui Bao, South Reviews Magazine, and CAIXIN Media.

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

(Updated by July 2024)