Initiative for Environmental-Health Disparities and Medicine
Chau-Kuang Chen, PhD
Dr. Chau-Kuang Chen is Associate Professor and the Director of Institutional Research at Meharry Medical College. He earned his M.S. degree in Counseling and Guidance at the University of Kansas and both M.S. degree in Statistics and Ed.D degree in Higher Education from Oklahoma State University. He has been a computer programmer analyst and systems analysts in the industry for many years. Dr. Chen has significantly contributed to the development and implementation of student tracking and decision support systems to analyze institutional data in support of institutional effectiveness and self-study for accreditation.
Dr. Chen has taught Biostatistics to graduate students and medical residents at Meharry for more than 20 years, specializing in generalized linear models, survival analyses, time series analyses, and artificial intelligence modeling approaches. He was one of the first to incorporate a variety of sophisticated techniques--ordered logit/cloglog, proportional hazard, transfer function of autoregressive integrated moving average, grey forecasting model, artificial neural network, support vector machine, and gene expression programming--into higher education processes and outcomes.
Dr. Chen has won the 2008 Distinguished Graduate Educator Award, and the Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching in the School of Graduate Studies three times, conducted numerous statistical workshops at annual conferences of the Association for Institutional Research (AIR), presented a statistical seminar at the University of Oxford in the UK, and recently published three articles in the Web-based IR Applications, an AIR refereed journal.
