Assistant Professor
canc@unc.edu | Can Chen‘s Website
Research Areas:control theory, network science, tensor algebra, numerical analysis, data science, machine learning, deep learning, hypergraph learning, data analysis, computational biology
Can Chen is an assistant professor at the School of Data Science and Society with a secondary appointment in the department of mathematics in the College of Arts & Sciences. He received a B.S. degree in mathematics from the University of California, Irvine in 2016, and an M.S. degree in electrical and computer engineering and a Ph.D. degree in applied and interdisciplinary mathematics from the University of Michigan in 2020 and 2021, respectively. He was a postdoctoral research fellow in the Channing Division of Network Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School from 2021 to 2023. His research interests span a diverse range of fields, including control theory, network science, tensor algebra, numerical analysis, data science, machine learning, deep learning, hypergraph learning, data analysis and computational biology.