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Can Chen, PhD

Research Areas: Genetics; Genetic Epidemiology; Network Medicine; COPD; Multiple Omics; Chronic Lung Disease; Epidemiology; Functional Genetics

I am currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Channing Division of Network Medicine (CDNM), Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. I received my B.S. degree in Mathematics (with minor in Statistics) from the University of California, Irvine in 2016, and my M.S. degree in Electrical & Computer Engineering and my Ph.D. degree in Applied & Interdisciplinary Mathematics from the University of Michigan in 2020 and 2021, respectively. I will be an Assistant Professor in the School of Data Science and Society (SDSS) and the Department of Mathematics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill starting January 2024.

spcch@channing.harvard.edu