2012 Candidates

Committee Leadership

1 candidate for each position. May vote for 1 candidate per position.

Shuyuan He - Nominee for Chair-elect 2016) (August 15, 2014-August 14,

is a professor of Department of Statistics, Capital Normal University. He received his Ph.D degree from Peking University and served as a teacher for Peking University from 1984 to 2009. He was promoted to professor in 1997 and was the head of Department of Probability and Statistics Peking University from 1998 to 2008. His research interests include time series and survival analysis. He published more than 40 research papers and wrote several books for students, such as Applied Time Series, Stochastic Processes, Introduction to Probability and Mathematical Statistics.

Zenghu Li - Nominee for Program Secretary 14, 2014) (August 15, 2012-August

received his Ph.D. in 1994 from Beijing Normal University. He is now a Chang Jiang Scholar Chair Professor in Beijing Normal University, a Vice President of the Chinese Society of Probability and Statistics (2006--2014), a Council Member of the Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability (2009--2013), a member of the Editorial Committee of “Acta Mathematica Sinica” (2009--) and “Probability and Mathematical Statistics” (2011--). He was a one hour plenary speaker at the “31st Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications” (Paris, France, 2006, 07, 17--21) and a Member of the Scientific Committee of the “35th Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications” (Oaxaca, Mexico, 2011, 06, 19--25). Research interests of Zenghu Li cover measure-valued processes (superprocesses), branching processes and infinite particle systems.

Fuzhou Gong - Nominee for Treasure 2014) (August 15, 2012-August 14,

iis a professor and the director of Institute of the Applied Mathematics in Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing, China. He received his PhD degree from the Institute of Applied Mathematics, CAS in 1995, worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the Peking University from 1995 to 1997, and as a research fellow at the Max-Planck Society and Bielefeld University, Germany from 1999 to 2001. He was the secretary general of Chinese Mathematical Society (2004--2007), a Vice President of Chinese Mathematical Society (2008--2011), a Vice Editor-in-Chief of “Acta Mathematicae Applicatat Sinica (Chinese Version)”(2006--), a member of the Editorial Board of “Acta Mathematicae Applicatat Sinica (English Version)” (2006--), “Northeastern Mathematical Journal (English Version)”(2007--), “Acta Mathematica Sinica (English Version)”(2009--), “J. of Mathematical Research and Exposition (English Version)”(2010--), “Pure and Applied Mathematics(Chinese Version)”(2011--), and “Asia Pacific Mathematics Newsletter”(2011--). He was also an Associate Editor of “Stochastics: An International Journal of Probability and Stochastic Processes” (2008--). Scholars Award of Qiushi Foundation in China in 2001, S. S. Chern Mathematical Award of Chinese Mathematical Society in 2003, and National Science Foundation of China for Distinguished Young Scholars in 2003. His research interests include infinite dimensional stochastic analysis, stochastic analysis on path and loop spaces, and their applications. Gong obtained the Outstanding Young Scholars Award of Qiushi Foundation in China in 2001, S. S. Chern Mathematical Award of Chinese Mathematical Society in 2003, and National Science Foundation of China for Distinguished Young Scholars in 2003. His research interests include infinite dimensional stochastic analysis, stochastic analysis on path and loop spaces, and their applications.

IMS China Committee Members

There are 20 candidates for 15 positions.
You may vote for up to 15.
All terms are August 15, 2012-August 15, 2014.

Mingyao Ai

is Associate Professor of Statistics and PhD students supervisor in Peking University, Beijing, China. He got his Bachelor and Master degrees from Central China Normal University in 1988 and in 1991, respectively, and PhD from Nankai University in 2003. From then on he has been working at Peking University. He is vice secretary general of both the Chinese Society of Probability and Statistics and the Chinese Association for Applied Statistics. He is also vice director of the Design of Experiments division of the Chinese Association for Applied Statistics. He now serves as associate editor for Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference and the journal STAT launched by the International Statistical Institute. Dr. Ai’s research interests are on the design and analysis of experiments, computer experiments, multivariate analysis, quality control and applied statistics and probability. He works on the construction and analysis of the designs for all kinds of experiments, and related statistical modeling and parameter optimization. He is the author or co-author of two books and over forty journal papers.

Hengjian Cui

is a Professor and Head of Department of Statistics, School of Mathematical Sciences, Capital Normal University, Beijing, China. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mathematics from Beijing Normal University (BNU),China in July 1983 and 1986 respectively, and received his Ph.D degree in Statistics from Institute of System Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences in July 1993. He had been working at BNU since June 1983 to March 2011. He was a visiting scholar in Department of Statistics of University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign and Department of Mathematics of Arizona State University from July 2000 to August 2001. He was a council member of Probability and Statistics Association of China from 1998 to 2002; standing council member of Probability and Statistics Association of China from 2002 to 2006; membership committee of the International Chinese Statistical Association from 1999 to 2002; council member of (and also Survival Analysis Division) Applied Statistics Association of China from 2004 to 2008. He serves or served as editor of Application of Statistics and Management from 2006, for Acta Mathematica Applicatae Sinica (both Chinese version and English version) from 2007. Professor Cui’s research interests are including parametric estimation theory in statistical linear model, measurement error (errors-in-variables) model; multivariate data analysis; nonparametric, semiparametric and robust statistics; empirical likelihood method; statistical computing and numerical analysis; model checking and the theory of statistical depth functions and its applications to multivariate exploratory data analysis, pattern recognition, quality control , etc.

Junyi Guo

is a professor of Nankai University, and Dean of the School of Mathematical Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin, China. He received his Ph.D. in 1995 from Nankai University. His early research interest was Markov process theory and measure-valued Markov processes. Since year 2000, he mainly works in the field of insurance risk theory and its interplay with stochastic control theory and mathematical finance. His more than 30 international publications cover works on classical ruin problems, optimal reinsurance and optimal investment strategies, optimal dividend problems, Gerber- Shiu functions on dependent risk He is now the vice president of Tianjin Mathematical Society, standing member of the council of The Chinese Society of Probability and Statistics, Standing member of the council of The Chinese Society of Interdisciplinary Sciences, Member of the editorial board of international journal of “Interdisciplinary Sciences”, Member of the editorial board of Chinese journal of “Applied Probability and Statistics”.

Xianping Guo

received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Applied Mathematics from Hunan Normal University, China, in 1987 and 1990, respectively. He attended the Changsha Railway University, P.R. China, where he received his Ph.D. degree in Probability and Statistics in 1996. Since then, he has held the position of Postdoctoral Researcher for two years in Zhongshan University, China, visited the University of Queensland and the University of South Australia, Australia from Sep. 1988 to May 1999. He held a position of a visiting professor in CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico from Aug. 2000 to Jul. 2002, and worked for more than three years in the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and more than one year in the Chinese University of Hong Kong, as a visiting scholar. He has published more then 40 papers in international journals such as Ann. Appl. Probab.,Adv. in Appl. Probab., Bernoulli, J. Appl. Probab.,J. Theory Probab, SIAM J. Optim., SIAM J. Control Optim., IEEE Trans. Automat. Control, IFAC Automatica, Math. Oper. Res., J. Optim. Thory Appl., and European J. Oper. Res.. Also, he has written (coauthored Continuous-Time Markov Decision Processes published in 2009 in Springer- Verlag. He is with the Zhongshan University, China, where he was appointed as a Professor in 2002. His research interests include Markov decision processes, stochastic optimality, and stochastic games. with Professor Onesimo Hernandez-Lerma) a book titled

Taizhong Hu

Professor and the chairman of the Department of Statistics and Finance, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). He received his PhD in Probability and Statistics from USTC in 1994. Hu's major research interests are stochastic comparisons,extreme value theory, and applied probability. He has published more than 90 research papers. He is currently an associate editor of the four journals, Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, Quality Technology and Quantitative Management, Journal of Data Analysis, and is a member of the editorial board for Chinese Journal of Applied Probability and Statistics.

Jinguan Lin

Professor and vice chairman of Department of Mathematics at Southeast University. He is also president of Jiangsu Association for Probability and Statistics, vice president of Jiangsu Association for Applied Statistics, director of Chinese Association for Probability and Statistics, standing director of Chinese Association for Applied Statistics. His research interests include Statistical Diagnostics, Longitudinal Data Analysis, Fuzzy Statistics, Extremes Statistics. He has published more than 60 papers in the international and some important national journals after he received his Ph.D from Southeast University in 2002.

Shunlong Luo

graduated from Shanghai Jiaotong University in 1989, and got his PhD in probability and statistics from Wuhan University in 1995. He became a professor of the Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2001. He is the director of the Division of Probability and Statistics at the Institute of Applied Mathematics. His research interests include probability, statistics and quantum information theory. He has published about 70 research papers in international journals. He is one of the editors of the book ``Recent Development in Stochastic Dynamics and Stochastic Analysis” (World Scientific, 2010), and one of the guest editors of two special issues ``Quantum Correlations: Entanglement and Beyond” of International Journal of Quantum Information (World Scientific, 2011).

Liuquan Sun

is a Professor at the Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the associate director of the Division of Probability and Statistics at the Institute of Applied Mathematics. He received his PhD in Probability and Statistics from Peking University in 1998. His research interests are survival analysis, biostatistics, statistics in medicine, recurrent event and longitudinal data analysis, interval-censored survival data analysis, and statistical analysis of incomplete data. He has published more than 80 papers in journals including JASA, Biometrika, Biometrics, Statist. Sinica, Stat. Med., Scand. J. Statist. and so on.

Shanjian Tang

was borne in April, 1966 in Wulian, Shandong Province. He received the Bachelor and the Master Degrees in Mathematics from Shandong University, and the Ph. D. in Mathematics from Fudan University. He got the Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship in 1999. He is now a Chang Jiang Scholar with Fudan University, and the Chairman of Department of Finance and Control Sciences, School of Mathematical Sciences, Fudan University. His research fields include stochastic control theory and financial mathematics. He serves in the editorial boards of SIAM J Control and Optimization, the book Series in Quantitative Finance (published by World Scientific Publishing Company), Journal of Control Theory and Applications, Management Science & Financial Engineering, among several other Chinese mathematical journals.

Qihua Wang

is Professor of Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China. He got his bachelor’s degree from Anhui Normal University in 1986, Master degree from Eastchina Normal University in 1989 and Ph.D degree from Peking University in 1996. He worked at Institute of Applied Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Science as a post- doctor from 1996-1998, at Peking University as a Lecturer from 1998-2000. He has been working at Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Science since 2000. He got National Distinguished Young Scholar Award in 2007, and was named a Chang Jiang Scholar by the Ministry of Education in China in 2009. He is a member of IMS. He serves as the Editor-in-Chief for Open Journal of Statistics, an Associate Editor for Annals of Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Journal of Applied Probability and Statistics, Science in China, Acta Math Apply Sinica and so on. He is vice President of Chinese Society of Biostatistics. He has published more than 80 papers. Among them, more than 60 has been published in international journals such as JASA, Annals of Statistics and Biometrika. Professor Qihua Wang’s research work mainly focuses on missing data analysis, statistical analysis with surrogate data and validation sampling, survival analysis, empirical likelihood, semi- and non-parametric statistics, high dimensional data analysis.

Zhaojun Wang

is a Professor of Nankai University, Tianjin, China. He got his bachelor's degree from Nankai University in 1987, Master Degree from East China Normal University in 1990, and Doctor of Science from Nankai University in 1995. He has been working at Nankai University since July 1990. He is President of Tianjin’s Applied Statistical Association and serves for several other national statistical organizations. He serves as associate editor for Chinese Journal of Applied Statistics and Management since 1996. Professor Wang’s research interests include Statistical Process Control, Quality engineering, High-dimensional data analysis, Dimension-reduction. He works on quality control and monitoring methods, estimation and testing on high- dimensional covariance matrix.

Yaohua Wu

is a Professor of University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China. He got his bachelor's degree from University of Science and Technology of Chin in 1983, Master of Science from University of Science and Technology of Chin in 1986, Doctor of Science from University of Science and Technology of Chin in 1989. He has been working at University of Science and Technology of Chin since 1985. He is a executive member of the council of Chinese Society of Probability and Statistics and serves for several other national statistical organizations. He serves as editor board for Journal of System Science and Mathematical and Chinese Journal of Applied Probability and Statistics now. He won the second class Natural Prize of Education of China in 2001 and the first class prize of education of Anhui Province in 2001. Professor Wu’s research interests are regression analysis, model selection and resampling technology.

Zhen Wu

is a Professor of Shandong University, Jinan, China. He got his doctor's degree in Applied Mathematics from Shandong University in 1997, and engaged in postdoctoral research in University of Maine, France from 1998 to 1999. He got the National Natural Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars in 2011. He has been working at Shandong University since 1997, and now he served as Vice Dean of the School of Mathematics and Taishan College in Shandong University. Professor Wu’s research interests are forward-backward stochastic differential equation, stochastic optimal control and financial mathematics. He has published more than 30 papers in the high level journals such as SIAM. J. Control Optim., IEEE Tans. Automatic Control, Automatica,J. Differential Equations and etc. He chaired one National quality courses and got the Second Prize of National Teaching Achievements both in 2005 and 2009. He is a Regular Associate Member of the Abdus Salam International Centre of Theoretical Physics (ICTP) and a Council Member of Chinese Mathematical Society and Chinese Society of Probability and Statistics. He has won the Youth Teacher Foundation of Fok Ying Tung Education Foundation and the Youth Award for Science and Technology of Shandong province. He is also one of the Young Experts with Outstanding Contributions in Shandong province and enrolled in the New Century Excellent Teachers Program of Education Ministry of China.

Ying Yang

is a Professor of Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. He got his bachelor's degree from Northwest Normal University in 1984, Master of Science Degree and Doctor of Science Degree from Peking University in 1990 and 1996 respectively. He worked at Peking University from 1998 to 2002. He has been working at Tsinghua University since July 2004. He is a council executive member of Chinese Society of Probability and Statistics and serves for several other national statistical organizations. Professor Yang’s research interests are nonparametric-semiparametric estimation, selection of smoothing parameter, median regression, longitudinal data analysis, semiparametric density estimation and biostatistics. He focuses on the M- cross-validation criterion and mixed Possion and continuous longitudinal data modeling, level set estimation and spatial statistics.

Baoxue Zhang

is a Professor of Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China. He got his bachelor's degree from Northeast Normal University in 1991, Master of Science from Northeast Normal University in 1994, Doctor of Science from Jilin University in 1999. He had worked at Beijing Institute of Technology from 1999 to 2003. He has been working at Northeast Normal University since 2003. He is a council executive member of Chinese Society of Probability and Statistics and serves for several other national statistical organizations. He serves as editor board for Operations Research and Fuzziology in 2012. He won the second class prize of Natural Science Award of Ministry of Education of China in 2006. He is also enrolled in the New Century Excellent Teachers Program of Education Ministry of China. Professor Zhang’s research interests are longitudinal data analysis, Functional data analysis, model selection and machine learning. He works on dimension reduction and regression for functional data analysis, a finite mixed model for longitudinal data, model selection under order restriction, and information statistics.

Lixin Zhang

is a Professor and the Vice Chairman of Department of Mathematics at Zhejiang University. He received his bachelor's degree in Pure Mathematics from Tianjin University of Technology and Education in 1990, Doctor of Science in Probability and Statistics from Fudan University in 1995. He has been working at Zhejiang University since 1995. He is now a Vice President of Zhejiang Association for Applied Statistics, a Council Member of Chinese Association of Applied Statistics and a Council Member of Zhejiang Mathematical Society. He has published more than 100 research papers in journals such as Annals of Statistics, Annals of Probability, Annals of Applied Probability, Stochastic Processes & Applications, Bernoulli etc. enrolled the New Century Excellent Talents Program of Education Ministry of China. Professor Lixin Zhang’s current research interests include limit theorems, sample path properties of stochastic processes, adaptive designs in clinical trials, dependent data modeling and time series analysis.

Riquan Zhang

is Ph.D. supervisor and dean of Statistics Department at East China Normal University (ECNU). He got his bachelor's degree from Sichuan University in 1988, Master of Science degree and Ph.D. from Statistics Department of ECNU in 1998 and in 2003 respectively. His postdoctoral research was fulfilled at the Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science in Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2005, and he was exceptionally promoted to a professor at the same year. From 2004 to 2008, he visited Hong Kong Polytechnic University and University of Hong Kong as a research fellow. He has been working at ECNU since 2006. He also serves for several professional associations, for example, council member of Chinese Society of Probability and Statistics, periodical editor of Chinese Journal of Applied Probability and Statistics, executive council member of the Chinese Society of Environment and Economy Statistics, council member of Survival Analysis branch of Chinese Association for Applied Statistics, executive council member of the Risk Management Society of Shanxi Province. In recent years, he has published more than 80 academic papers in various international professional journals, among which 33 papers have been quoted by SCI/SCIE, as well as one monograph and one textbook. Altogether he has taken charge of and participated in 16 scientific research projects, including 2 projects supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China, 1 project supported by Doctoral Fund of Ministry of Education of China, 1 key project supported by National Bureau of Statistics of China, etc. Professor ZHANG’s research interests are mainly in the area of nonparametric regression models, semiparametric regression models, variable selection, quantile regression. He works on environmental data / functional data analysis with semiparametric regression models with single index, dimension reduction, quantile regression, variable selection and model selection.

Zhongzhan Zhang

is a Professor of Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, China. He got his Master of Science Degree in 1986 from Yunnan University, and Ph.D. from Kyushu University (Japan) in 1999 respectively. He has been worked at Beijing University of Technology since 1986. He is a vice president of Chinese Association for Applied Statistics, serves for several other national statistical organizations. Professor Zhang’s research interests include for semiparametric isotonic regression, variable selection in complicated regression models, inferences for epidemiological studies and reliability estimation tests. He is associate editors for Journal of Mathematical Statistics and Management, Journal of Applied Probability and Statistics, and International Journal of Biomathematics.

Weian Zheng

is a State endowed Professor of East China Normal University. He obtained the title of Docteur d'Etat in 1984 at University of Strasbourg; he was a visiting associate Professor in 1985 at University of Bielefeld; he was a visiting researcher in 1986 and 1988 at University of Edinburgh. He became full professor in 1986 at East China Normal University. He visited UCSD in 1989 and he worked at UC Irvine for 21 years, His current research interests are applying probability and statistics into finance and logistics.

Zhongyi Zhu

Ph. D, Professor, Department of Statistics, Fudan University. He is a vice president of China society of Probability and Statistics. His research interests include Longitudinal Data Analysis, Nonparametric and Semiparametric models and Credibility Theory. He has published more than 80 papers in Journals including Annal of Statistics, Biometrika, JASA, JRSS-B. He is an associate editor of Statistica Sinica.