Tong Chen

Tong Chen is a doctoral candidate in the School of Public Affairs and Administration (SPAA) at Rutgers University–Newark. His research interests lie in nonprofit management and public corruption. His dissertation consists of three papers regarding public corruption in the United States. Within this project, he created a dataset based on the press release disclosed by the FBI and coded with AI tools. His nonprofit work focuses on the nonprofit’s communication strategy on social media and obtained access to Meta Platforms (Facebook and Instagram). He’s interested in applying emerging technologies in public administration and academic research, such as data-driven management, fraud detection, and text analysis.

Education

• MSc: Hult International Business School, Finance (2014)
• BS: Iowa State University, Finance (2013)
• BS: Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, China, Statistics (2012)