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Jun Chen, Head of Financial Modeling, leads the quantitative research efforts at PPR and is responsible for applying cutting-edge real estate research to real-world analytical models. Having more than 10 years of professional experience, Dr. Chen is a well-recognized researcher with expertise in all four quadrants of commercial real estate. He was the leading modeler in the commercial mortgage PD...

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   Published on: 5/4/2006   Last Visited: 5/4/2006

   Jun Chen, Ph.D.
   
   Jun Chen, Head of Financial Modeling, leads the quantitative research efforts at PPR and is responsible for applying cutting-edge real estate research to real-world analytical models.Having more than 10 years of professional experience, Dr. Chen is a well-recognized researcher with expertise in all four quadrants of commercial real estate.He was the leading modeler in the commercial mortgage PD model (CompassCRE) and is currently focusing on quantitative analytics-related R&D initiatives.Before joining PPR, Dr. Chen worked at IndyMac Bank in California, where he conducted extensive research on credit and prepayment risks of residential mortgages and developed proprietary risk-based pricing models.A former tenure-track faculty member at Shanghai Jiaotong University, he has also worked as a consultant in the areas of commercial real estate transactions, residential community planning, resort development, and urban center design.Dr. Chen frequently presents his research at top-level domestic and international academic conferences and has a variety of research interests.
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   Dr. Chen earned his Ph.D. degree from the University of Southern California, with a specialty in real estate finance and urban economics.He also received an M.S. in Architectural Engineering and a B.S. in Landscape Architectural Engineering, from Tongji University, China.
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   Gu (Grant) Jiao, Quantitative Analyst, focuses on investment analysis of commercial mortgage and equity portfolios and also works closely with Dr. Jun Chen in developing commercial mortgage risk models and PPR's CompassCRE software.Before joining PPR, he attended Simon Business School at the University of Rochester, after working as a software engineer for three years in the Silicon Valley.He also worked at Johnson & Johnson and Hewlett-Packard Company in China.He received an M.B.A. in Finance from the University of Rochester, an M.S. in Signal and Information Processing from Peking University, and a B.S. in Computer Science from Beijing Institute of Technology.
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   Omena Ubogu, Quantitative Analyst, works closely with Dr. Jun Chen and Margaret Harbaugh on the Quantitative Analysis Team.