Peter L. Bühlmann

ETH Zürich

Peter Bühlmann has been Full Professor of Mathematics at the ETH Zurich since 1 October 2004.

He was born on April 12, 1965, citizen from Sempach (Switzerland), and studied mathematics at the ETH Zurich (1985-1990). In 1993, he received his doctoral degree in mathematics (statistics) from the ETH Zurich. From 1994-1995 he worked as a postdoc in the Department of Statistics at the University of California at Berkeley. Following this he spent two more years, from 1995-1997, at the U.C. Berkeley as Neyman assistant professor. From 1997-2001 he was Assistant Professor and from 2001-2004 Associate Professor of Mathematics at the ETH Zurich.

His main research is in the field of statistics, with connections to machine learning, bioinformatics and computational biology. Of special interest are the areas of high-dimensional statistics, computational methods for large-scale modeling, and causal inference.

Huazhen Lin

Southwestern University of Finance and Economics

Huazhen Lin is the Chair Professor at the Southwestern University of Finance and Economics (SWUFE) and the director of the Center of Statistical Research at SWUFE. She is a New Cornerstone Investigator，a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and a recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars.

Huazhen Lin's main research interests include deep learning, nonparametric method, functional data analysis, factor model, survival data analysis, and transformation model. She has published numerous research papers in internationally renowned statistics journals，including Annals of Statistics, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B, and Biometrika. Huazhen Lin serves as an associate editor for Journal of the American Statistical Associations. And she has served as an associate editor for many journals, including Biometrics, the Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, the Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, the Canadian Journal of Statistics, Statistics and Its Interface, and Statistical Theory and Related Fields. She also serves on the editorial boards of various Chinese journals, such as the English Series of Acta Mathematica Sinica, the Chinese Journal of Applied Probability and Statistics, the Journal of Systems Science and Mathematical Sciences, and the Journal of Applications of Statistics and Management.

Additionally, she is a board member of the International Chinese Statistical Association (ICSA), an associate director of the Chinese Association for Applied Statistics (CAAS), the director of the Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Chapter at CAAS, and an associate chair of the Chinese Association for Industrial Statistics Teaching.