Chen Yongchuan, male, Han nationality, is a native of Nanchong, Sichuan Province. He was born in 1964 and graduated from Sichuan University in 1984. He received a doctorate in applied mathematics from MIT in 1991 and became advisor to the Los Alamos National Laboratory. He returned to China in 1994 and was the recipient of a series of awards for teaching and research.
Chen established the Combinatorics Research Center at Nankai University in 1997 and is now professor and vice-president of Nankai University.