About
An Yu Chen is a Researcher at Alliance Manchester Business School within the IMP Innovation, Strategy and Sustainability department. She holds a Doctor of Philosophy from the same institution. Her research focuses on analyzing linkages between science and technology, with a particular emphasis on green technologies and knowledge flows. This work contributes to UN Sustainable Development Goals, especially SDG 13 (Climate Action).
Her expertise includes developing belief rule-based systems for decision-making, social network analysis, and complex systems modeling. Key research areas involve understanding how social networks influence decision-making processes, optimizing group consensus mechanisms, and applying evidential reasoning to risk assessment and fault diagnosis.
Notable contributions include frameworks for Arctic navigation risk assessment, R&D project evaluation systems using belief rule bases, and models analyzing vaccine adoption behaviors in social networks. Her work bridges theoretical advancements in decision science with practical applications in sustainability, healthcare, and logistics.
She has extensively published on topics like trust propagation in social networks, entropy-based vulnerability analysis of infrastructure systems, and hybrid algorithms for optimization problems. Her interdisciplinary approach integrates methods from computer science, statistics, and management science to address real-world challenges in innovation and sustainability.
