Prominent blockchain researcher Chen Jing has left the United States to join Tsinghua University in Beijing as a full-time professor.
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The 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 her master’s from the same university in 2007. She completed her PhD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2012 under the mentorship of Silvio Micali, a Turing award laureate.
“I simply wanted to conduct the best research. At the time, the best research in computer science was in the US,” Chen said in a video posted on Tsinghua’s social media account.
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“Now it is time to share the experience I’ve gained in academia and industry with my students in China, and leverage my international influence to support Tsinghua and its computer science department.”
Chen said she was committed to training younger researchers in computational economics, equipping them to identify and solve real-world societal problems.