Prof. Yongmiao Hong, Chinese Academy of Sciences and University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

Yongmiao Hong is currently a Kwan Chao-Chih Chief Research Fellow at Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Dean of School of Economics and Management, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is a Fellow of the World Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the Econometric Society, a Vice Chairperson of Steering Committee for Economics Teaching in Higher Education under Chinese Ministry of Education, and the Project Manager of the NSFC Basic Science Center on Econometric Modeling and Economic Policy Studies. Professor Hong was the Ernest S. Liu Professor of Economics and International Studies at Cornell University from 2010 to 2020, and the President of Chinese Economists Society in North America from 2009 to 2010.

Professor Hong's research interests include econometric theory, time series econometrics, financial econometrics, statistics and Chinese economy. He has published referred papers in mainstream economic, financial and statistical journals such as Annals of Statistics, Biometrika, Econometric Theory, Econometrica, International Economic Review, Journal of American Statistical Association, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Royal Statistical Society (Series B), Quarterly Journal of Economics, and Management Science, Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economics and Statistics, Review of Financial Studies. His most recent book is Foundations of Modern Econometrics: A Unified Approach. He has been listed among Most Cited Chinese Researchers in Economics/Statistics by Elsevier for 10 consecutive years from 2014 to 2023, and was awarded the first prize in the 2022 National Teaching Award for Higher Education (Undergraduate).

Homepage: https://teacher.ucas.ac.cn/~ymhong?language=en

Prof. Jian Huang, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Jian Huang is Chair Professor of Data Science and Analytics in the Department of Applied Mathematics at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Statistics from the University of Washington in Seattle. His recent research interests include deep generative models and inference, statistical inference in deep learning, representation learning, and statistical analysis leveraging pretrained large models. He has published widely in the fields of Statistics, Biostatistics, Machine Learning, Bioinformatics and Econometrics. He was designated a highly cited researcher in the field of Mathematics from 2015 to 2019 by Clarivate and included in the list of top 2% of the world's most cited scientists by Elsevier and Stanford University (2022, 2023). Professor Huang is a fellow of the American Statistical Association and a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.

Homepage: https://www.polyu.edu.hk/ama/people/academic-staff/prof-huang-jian/

Prof. Degui Li, University of Macau

Prof. Degui Li is Distinguished Professor of Business Economics at the Faculty of Business Administration, University of Macau. Prior to that, he worked as a professor at the Department of Mathematics, University of York. His main research areas include Functional Data Analysis, High-Dimensional Variable/Feature Selection, High-Frequency Financial Econometrics, Longitudinal Data Modeling, Network Modeling, Nonparametric and Semiparametric Statistics, Robust Statistics and Time Series Econometrics. His research works have been published in leading statistical and econometric journals such as Annals of Statistics, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics and Econometric Theory. He has been supported by the Leverhulme Research Fellowship, British Academy/Leverhulme Small Grant, Australian Research Council Discovery Project and Discovery Early Career Researcher Award. He serves as the Associate Editor of Econometric Theory, Journal of Time Series Analysis, and Econometrics and Statistics. 

Homepage: https://fba.um.edu.mo/faculty/deguili/

Prof. Katsumi Shimotsu, University of Tokyo

Prof. Katsumi Shimotsu is a professor at University of Tokyo. He obtained his Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University in 2000. His research fields are Econometrics and Statistics and he has a focus on Finite mixture models, dynamic discrete choice models and long memory time series. His papers have been published in Annals of Statistics, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Econometrica, Journal of Econometrics, etc. He is a fellow of the Econometric Society.

Homepage: https://www.e.u-tokyo.ac.jp/fservice/faculty/shimotsu/shimotsu-e/shimotsu01-e.html

Prof. Shouyang Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences and University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

Prof. Shouyang Wang is the Chairman of the Decision Sciences Society of China, Vice Chairman of the Operations Research Society of China, Secretary-General of the Systems Engineering Society of China, and serves, as an expert, on the Disciplinary Consultative Group of the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council. His is also a member of the National Postdoctoral Management Committee of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, and a member of the Advisory Committee of Management Sciences of the National Natural Science Foundation of China. In addition, he is an Honorary Professor or part-time Professor at over twenty prestigious universities at home and abroad.

Professor Shouyang Wang is on the editorial boards of more than ten journals, including Energy Economics, Information and Management, the Journal of Management Systems, Information Technology and Decision Making, the Journal of Systems Science and Complexity, the Journal of Management Science, and the Journal of Systems Science and Mathematical Sciences. He has also served as the Guest Editor of an issue/volume of several journals including Annals of Operations Research, and the European Journal of Operational Research.

Homepage: https://people.ucas.ac.cn/~sywang?language=en

Prof. Yoon-Jae Whang, Seoul National University

Yoon-Jae Whang is a Distinguished Professor at the Department of Economics in Seoul National University. He holds B.A. and M.A. degrees in economics from Seoul National University and earned his Ph.D. in economics from Yale University in 1991. He has held previous positions at the University of Toronto, Ewha University, and Korea University. His main research interests are in econometric theory, financial econometrics and applied econometrics. His current research topics include nonparametric and semiparametric methods, inference on stochastic dominance and its applications, and econometric analysis of big data.

He is an elected fellow of the Econometric Society (since 2010) and the International Association for Applied Econometrics (since 2018), and a fellow of the Journal of Econometrics (since 2012). His research has been recognized via various awards including the SNU Creative Leading Researcher Fellowship, the Dasan Economics Prize, the Maekyung Economist Award, and the Chung-Ram Academic Award.

He was previously the President of the Korean Econometric Society, the President of the Korean Economic Association, the Director of the Institute of Economic Research in Seoul National University, the Editor of Korean Economic Review, and an Associate Editor of Journal of Econometrics. He is presently the Director of the Center for Econometrics in Seoul National University, a Co-Editor of Econometric Theory, and an Associate Editor of Econometric Reviews.

Homepage: https://econ.snu.ac.kr/people/faculty?mode=view&profidx=30

Prof. Jun Yu, University of Macau

Prof. Jun Yu is currently UMDF Chair Professor of Finance and Economics and Dean of Faculty of Business Administration at the University of Macau. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from University of Western Ontario in 1998. His primary research interests are financial econometrics, econometric theory, and empirical asset pricing. He provides editorial service for Journal of Econometrics and Econometric Theory. He was awarded Fellow of Journal of Econometrics in 2011, Inaugural Fellow of Society of Financial Econometrics (SoFiE) in 2012, Certificate for Highly Cited Research of Journal of Asian Economics in 2016, etc. His work has appeared in Journal of Econometrics, International Economic Review, Review of Financial Studies, Quantitative Economics, Econometric Theory, Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, Management Science etc.

Homepage: https://fba.um.edu.mo/faculty/junyu/

Prof. Yichong Zhang, Singapore Management University

Dr. Yichong Zhang is an Associate Professor of Economics at School of Economics (SOE), Singapore Management University (SMU). His research focus is theoretical and applied econometrics. His research has appeared in leading journals in economics, statistics and machine learning, including Annals of Statistics, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Machine Learning Research, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Review of Economics and Statistics, and Quantitative Economics, among others.

Homepage:https://faculty.smu.edu.sg/profile/yichong-zhang-1521