Shu-Heng Chen
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Prof. Dr. Shu-Heng Chen is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Economics at National Chengchi University
National Chengchi University
National Chengchi University is a prestigious public university at Muzha in Wenshan District, Taipei City, Taiwan. It is well-known for its concentration on the social sciences, law, commerce, communication, liberal arts and for its MBA programs....

, where he is also Dean of Office of International Cooperation, Director of the AI-ECON Research Center and the organizer of the Experimental Economics Laboratory at National Chengchi University.

He also serves as Vice Chair of the IEEE Computational Finance & Economics Technical Committee, an area editor of the Journal of New Mathematics and Natural Computation
New Mathematics and Natural Computation
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 (World Scientific), and the associate editor of the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
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 and Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination. Prof. Chen holds an M.A. degree in mathematics and a Ph. D. in Economics from University of California at Los Angeles. He has more than 150 publications in international journals, edited volumes and conference proceedings.

He is considered one of the founders and leaders in the field of agent-based computational economics
Agent-Based Computational Economics
Agent-based computational economics is the major aspect of computational economics that studies economic processes, including whole economies, as dynamic systems of interacting agents. As such, it falls in paradigm of complex adaptive systems...

  and the first to introduce genetic programming
Genetic programming
In artificial intelligence, genetic programming is an evolutionary algorithm-based methodology inspired by biological evolution to find computer programs that perform a user-defined task. It is a specialization of genetic algorithms where each individual is a computer program...

 into ACE. He takes a biologically-inspired approach in modeling the boundedly rational behavior of agents; on this regard, he stands in a position of carrying on the legacy of Alfred Marshall and Herbert Simon
Herbert Simon
Herbert Alexander Simon was an American political scientist, economist, sociologist, and psychologist, and professor—most notably at Carnegie Mellon University—whose research ranged across the fields of cognitive psychology, cognitive science, computer science, public administration, economics,...

.

Under his leadership, AI-ECON Research Center is internationally acknowledged via the invention of the Taiwan Model, one kind of agent-based artificial stock model. His commitment to academia has won him a large variety of acknowledgements. He was invited several times by leading publishers, such as Springer
Springer Science+Business Media
- Selected publications :* Encyclopaedia of Mathematics* Ergebnisse der Mathematik und ihrer Grenzgebiete * Graduate Texts in Mathematics * Grothendieck's Séminaire de géométrie algébrique...

, Kluwer, Elsevier
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 to be their book editor. He was also invited by a number of international prestigious journals as an editor or associate editor, such as IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
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, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination, and New Mathematics and Natural Computation. Over the last decades, he also served as a keynote speaker at more than a dozen of international conferences. In 2007, he was included in the Marquis 10th Anniversary Edition of "Who's Who in Science and Engineering".

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