Zhuo Fu Chen is an Executive Consultant at Cascade Analytics. His practice focuses on labor market analysis, strategic planning, and economic development advisory for private investors, public agencies, financial institutions, and non-profit organizations. Zhuo bridges the gap between technologists and business executives.

Zhuo gained private and non-profit professional experience at American International Group (AIG), ATC Group Services, Better Business Bureau (BBB) Serving Metropolitan New York, Quality Service for the Autism Community (QSAC), State University of New York at Cortland (SUNY Cortland), University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC), as an Economic Consultant for a five-year-old technology startup in its restructuring phase, and Columbia University in the City of New York.

As a Senior Consultant at Cascade Analytics, Zhuo is working with his team members to grow Cascade as a rigorous and welcoming community for brilliant professionals to help clients shape their current and future initiatives with informed business intelligence that is integrated with data science. 

Zhuo is a native of New York City and grew up in lower Manhattan. He has lived in Central New York, London (United Kingdom), Kansas City (Missouri), and Ann Arbor-Detroit (Michigan). He earned his B.A., summa cum laude, in Economics from the State University of New York at Cortland with study abroad experience at the University College London (UCL), M.A. in Economics from the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC), and is a Ph.D. Candidate in Economics at UMKC. Chen has been a Graduate Teaching Assistant, Graduate Research Assistant, and Instructor in Economics at UMKC. Zhuo has presented at national conferences across the United States and has published in the Journal for Labour Market Research, where he also served as a peer-reviewer. 

He is grateful to see his methodological and applied work being utilized by leaders across multiple fields:

• Econometrics: Deeply honored to have his methodological approach to local labor markets cited by, Thomson Reuters Citation Laureate, Peter C.B. Phillips (In Journal of Econometrics, 2025/ Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University, Discussion Paper, 2024/Economic Research Institute, Yonsei University Working Paper, 2024; "GMM Estimation with Brownian Kernels Applied to Income Inequality Measurement"). His research focuses on using high-dimensional data to bridge the gap between theoretical econometrics and practical labor policy.

• Policy & Strategy: His Framework on labor shifts was recently discussed by Ravi Kumar S (CEO, Cognizant) in TIME (March 2026; "AI Should Belong to Workers").