Dr. Chen has over 18 years experience in the research and application of various analytical methods as well as design and development of analytical applications. During the past 6 years, he has been working as a senior model analyst, architect and scientist in pricing optimization field. Prior to joining Symphony-Metreo, Dr. Chen worked as an analytical architect at Nomis Solutions and was in charge of the design and development of the Nomis analytical engine where he led the investigation, design and development of various algorithms and was responsible for the implementation of analytical models for several pricing optimization platforms. Prior to Nomis, Dr. Chen worked at Talus Solutions and Manugistics. He was in charge of the development of various pricing optimization models and algorithms as well as analytical modeling approaches. Dr. Chen received his doctorate in Mathematical Sciences from Clemson University focusing on Operations Research. He holds a bachelor degree in Mathematics from Nankai University and a master degree in Applied Mathematics from Wuhan University in China. He has co-authored multiple published technical papers in the field of optimization and its applications.