Dr Xu Chen
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Email
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Telephone
+44 (0) 1206 874425
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Location
3A.527, Colchester Campus
Profile
Biography
Xu Chen is a neuroimaging statistician whose research focuses on developing statistical and computational methods to analyse large-scale brain imaging data. Dr Chen completed her PhD in Statistics at the University of Warwick and her postdoctoral training at Leiden University Medical Center and Maastricht University, respectively. She joined the ºÚÁÏÍø in 2023, and is currently working as a Lecturer in Data Science in the School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science.
Qualifications
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PhD in Statistics University of Warwick, (2014)
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BSc in Information and Computational Science Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, (2009)
Appointments
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Lecturer in Data Science, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science (SMSAS), ºÚÁÏÍø (21/9/2023 - present)
Other academic
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Researcher, Biomedical Data Sciences, Leiden University Medical Center (1/2/2019 - present)
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Researcher, Cognitive Neuroscience, Maastricht University (15/1/2015 - 30/4/2018)
Research and professional activities
Research interests
Neuroimaging data analysis
Multiple testing
Imaging genetics
Conferences and presentations
ClusterTDP: Cluster Inference via Closed Testing for True Discovery Proportion (TDP) Analysis
Half Day Educational Courses - Where is my signal? An interactive course on incorporating spatial information in fMRI analysis, The 31st Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM 2025), Brisbane, Australia, 24/6/2025
The All-resolutions Inference (ARI) framework
Full Day Educational Course - Beyond blobology: advances in statistical inference for neuroimaging, The 29th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM 2023), Montréal, Canada, 22/7/2023
Teaching and supervision
Current teaching responsibilities
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Data Visualisation (MA304)
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Applied Statistics (MA321)
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Research Skills (MA903)
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Dissertation (MA981)
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Financial Mathematics (MA226)
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Mathematics of Portfolios (MA311)
Publications
Journal articles (7)
Goeman, JJ., Górecki, P., Monajemi, R., Chen, X., Nichols, TE. and Weeda, W., (2023). . Journal of The Royal Statistical Society Series B-statistical Methodology. 85 (4), 1128-1153
Tian, J., Chen, X., Katsevich, E., Goeman, J. and Ramdas, A., (2023). . Scandinavian Journal of Statistics. 50 (2), 750-796
Cai, M., Vesely, A., Chen, X., Li, L. and Goeman, JJ., (2022). . Briefings in Bioinformatics. 23 (6), bbac417-
Kastrati, G., Rosén, J., Fredrikson, M., Chen, X., Kuja-Halkola, R., Larsson, H., Jensen, KB. and Åhs, F., (2022). . Translational Psychiatry. 12 (1), 95-
Kastrati, G., Rosén, J., Thompson, WH., Chen, X., Larsson, H., Nichols, TE., Tracey, I., Fransson, P., Åhs, F. and Jensen, KB., (2022). . Cerebral Cortex. 32 (2), 266-274
Kochunov, P., Patel, B., Ganjgahi, H., Chen, X. and et al, (2019). . Frontiers in Neuroinformatics. 13, 16-
Chen, X., Formisano, E., Blokland, GAM. and et al, (2019). . Human Brain Mapping. 40 (12), 3488-3507
Reports and Papers (1)
Chen, X., Goeman, JJ., Krebs, TJP., Meijer, RJ. and Weeda, WD., (2022).
Grants and funding
2025
LMS Scheme 4 Research in Pairs - Applicant Research Visit (Leiden, Netherlands)
London Mathematical Society