Dr. Songnian CHEN is Professor of Economics, College of Economics, Zhejiang University (ZJU). He is elected as the 2022 Fellow of the Econometric Society. He is also honored as the first Tsingshan Chair Professor at Tsingshan Insititute for Advanced Business Studies (TIABS) of ZJU. 

He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University in 1994. He was a provost's chair professor in the Department of Economics at the National University of Singapore and a chair professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). During his tenure at HKUST, Prof. Chen also served as a member of the University Substantiation and Promotion Committee, Senior Research Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study etc. 

He has published over 40 papers in leading journals such as  Econometrica, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Econometrics, Econometric Theory, Annals of Statistics, Journal of American Statistical Association, and Journal of Business and Economic Statistics. Prof. Chen is a fellow of the Journal of Econometrics (JOE) and served as an Associate Editor of Journal of Econometrics from 2002 to 2021.