Yanhua Chen currently serves as Lead Model Validation and Vice President, Senior Model Validation at New York Community Bank since March 2017. Prior experience includes a role as Credit Risk Modeler in the Risk Management Group at First Niagara Bank from July 2015 to February 2017, focusing on developing and maintaining loss forecasting models for retail credit risk, conducting scenario analyses, and documenting analytical processes and results. Yanhua Chen holds a Master of Arts in Biostatistics from the University at Buffalo, completed between 2013 and 2015, and also possesses an educational background from Jinan University.