Prominent blockchain researcher Chen Jing has left the United States to join Tsinghua University in Beijing as a full-time professor.AdvertisementThe award-winning scholar and chief scientist said she would bring “a dual perspective from academia and industry” to help develop computational economics in China, according to an announcement by the university on Tuesday.Chen, who returned to China last year after spending 15 years in the US, said she aimed to address gaps in domestic research and develop cutting-edge theories to improve China’s blockchain technology, Tsinghua said in its statement.Chen earned her bachelor’s degree in computer science from Tsinghua in 2004 and...