Who Am I?

By Xuming He

Current Position

• H. C. Carver Collegiate Professor of Statistics, Department of Statistics, University of Michigan

Professional Honors and Associations

• Fellow of the the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS);

• IMS Medallion Lecturer, Keynote Speaker at the 2007 Joint Statistical Meetings, Salt Lake City;

• Jerry and Ann Nerad Professorial Scholar Award (2005) by the College of LAS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign;

• Fellow of The American Statistical Association

• Fellow of Institute of Mathematical Statistics

• Fellow of The International Statistical Institute

• ICSA Distinguished Achievement Award of 2015

Professional Services

• Co-editor of JASA (Theory & Methods), 2012-1014;

• Chair of the Program Committee, 59th World Statistics Congress of the International Statistical Institute (ISI) (at Hong Kong, 2013);

• Chair, ASA Committee on Meetings, 2012-2016;

• Program Chair, Joint Statistical Meetings, 2010;

• Editor of the IMS Bulletin (2007-2010);

• Associate Editor of The Annals of Statistics (2004--2011); Associate Editor of Journal of the Royal Statistical Society; Series B (since 2010); Co-Editor of Sankhya (2005-2008); Editor of Journal of Multivariate Analysis (1998-2004); Associate Editor of Statistica Sinica (1996-2002, and 2005 - 2011) and Statistics and Probability Letters (1994-2010);

• ASA Committee on Noether Awards (2008-2011), ASA Committee on Meetings (2009-2011 and as Chair 2012-2017), the Search Committee for the ASA Executive Director (2006), ASA Committee on Federally Funded Research (2006-2009), ASA Committee on Scientific Freedom and Human Rights (1998-2000);

• Elected Council member of IMS 2004-2006; Chair of the IMS Travel Award Committee (2005-2006); Chair of the IMS Nomination Committee (2005-2006); Chair of the IMS Ad hoc Committee on IMS China (2007);

• President of the International Chinese Statistical Association (ICSA) (2010); On the Board of Directors of ICSA (2003-2005, 2009-2011);Chair of the ICSA Nomination and Election Committee (2005);

• Elected Council member of the ISI (2012-2017); Chair of ISI Publications Committee (2015-2018); Member of ISI Awards Committee (2016-2017);

Other Positions Held

• Professor of Statistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (through August 2011);

• Program Director of Statistics, National Science Foundation (August 2003 - August, 2005);

• Director, Illinois Statistics Office (2000-2003);

• Honorary Professor, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, The University of Hong Kong (since 2011);

• Advisory Professor, East China Normal University (2002-2008 )

• Senior Fellow, Department of Mathematics, National University of Singapore (12/97 - 07/98);

• Lecture, Department of Mathematics, National University of Singapore (10/89 - 07/93);

• Co-Chair of the Scientific Committee, Center for Statistical Research, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2006 - ).

• Changjiang (Cheung Kong) Visiting Professor at Northeast Normal University, supported by the Ministry of Education of China and Li Ka Shing Foundation of Hong Kong (2008-2011);

• Honorary Professor of Statistics, School of Management, Fudan University (since 2007);

• Consultant to Argonne National Laboratory (1994-1996) ;

• Reviewer for Mathematical Reviews (1994-2002).

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