Dr. Chunrong Ai is Professor of Economics and Presidential Chair Professor in the School of Management and Economics, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen. He is the Director of the Social and Behavioral Big Data Lab at The Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data and Associate Director of Shenzhen Finance Institute. Before that, he was Professor of Economics and Florida Term Professor at the University of Florida. He was the founding Dean of the Institute of Statistics and Big Data, Renmin University of China, and the founding Dean of the School of Statistics and Management, Senior Associate Dean of the Institute for Advanced Research and Associate Dean of Business School, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics.  

Dr. Ai's primary research interests are in the area of econometrics, empirical industrial organization, empirical finance, and Chinese economy. Recently he focused on the interdisciplinary research between data science and behavioral big data. His research outputs are published in the reputable scholarly journals.

Homepage: https://myweb.cuhk.edu.cn/chunrongai

Dr. Zongwu CAI, University of Kansas

Dr. Zongwu CAI is The Charles Oswald Professor of Econometrics and Professor of Economics at Department of Economics at The University of Kansas, USA. Dr. Cai earned his Bachelor degree in mathematics from China University of Geosciences at Wuhan in 1982, the Master degree in statistics from Zhejiang University in 1988 and the Ph.D. in statistics from University of California at Davis, USA in 1995. Dr. Cai is the Fellow of the American Statistical Association and the fellow of the economics journal Journal of Econometrics. He was the president of the Chinese Economists Society (2018-2019). Also, he is serving and served as the Associate Editor and the member of the editorial board for several international journals, including but not limit to, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics. Dr. Cai is extensively recognized internationally for his professional and academic achievements, and he has published about 130 papers in international journals, including many top journals in economics and statistics as well as finance

Dr. Xiaohong CHEN, Yale University

Dr. Xiaohong CHEN is the Malcolm K. Brachman Professor of Economics and Professor of Management at Yale University. She got her Ph.D. in Economics from University of California, San Diego in 1993. Her research field is econometrics. She is known for her research in penalized sieve estimation and inference on semiparametric and nonparametric models. Dr. Chen has published peer-reviewed papers in top-ranked general-purpose journals in economics: Econometrica and Review of Economic Studies; as well as in top-ranked journals in statistics and engineering: Annals of Statistics, Journal of the American Statistical Association, IEEE Tran Information Theory, IEEE Trans Neural Networks.

Homepage: https://economics.yale.edu/people/xiaohong-chen

Dr. Timothy CHRISTENSEN, University College London, New York University

Dr. Timothy CHRISTENSEN is Professor at University College London and Associate Professor New York University. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University in 2014. His areas of research are time-series and nonparametric econometrics. His work has been published extensively in leading journals including, Econometrica, Journal of Econometrics, Quantitative Economics.

Homepage: http://tmchristensen.com

Dr. Yongmiao HONG, Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

Dr. Yongmiao HONG is currently a distinguished research fellow at Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science and Center for Forecasting Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and a special-term professor at School of Economics and Management, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS). He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, San Diego in 1993. Before he joined CAS and UCAS, he was the Ernest S. Liu Professor of Economics and International Studies, a Professor of Statistics, and a field member in Center of Applied Mathematics at Cornell University in the United States. His research interests include model specification testing, nonlinear time series analysis, financial econometrics, and empirical studies on Chinese economy and financial markets. He publishes refereed articles in mainstream economic, financial and statistical journals including Econometrica, Journal of Political Economy, Review of Economic Studies, Annals of Statistics, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Biometrika, Econometric Theory, International Economic Review, Journal of American Statistical Association and Journal of Business & Economic Statistics.

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

Dr. Ioannis KASPARIS is Associate Professor of University of Cyprus. He holds a Ph.D. from University of Southampton in 2004. His main research interests are time series econometrics, specification testing and asymptotic statistical theory. His work has been published in leading journals including, Annals of Statistics, Journal of Econometrics, Econometric Theory, and Econometric Reviews.

Homepage: https://www.ucy.ac.cy/directory/en/profile/kasparis

Dr. Lung-Fei LEE, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Ohio State University

Dr. Lung-Fei LEE is a special term professor of Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, China, and an emeritus Professor of Econometrics at Ohio State University. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Rochester in 1997. His research and publications are in the areas of microeconometrics and theoretical econometrics. He has served as editor in chief of Journal of Spatial Econometrics, consulting editor of Macroeconomic Dynamics. He is also on the editorial boards of Annals of Economics and Finance, Foundations and Trends in Econometrics, and Global Journal of Economics. His work has been published in the top academic journals including Econometrica, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Quantitative Economics, International Economics Review, Journal of Development Economics and Review of Economics and Statistics.

Homepage: https://economics.osu.edu/people/lee.1777

Dr. Ruixuan LIU, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Dr. Ruixuan LIU is an Associate Professor at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He received his Ph.D. from University of Washington in 2015. His research interests include econometrics and data science. His work has been published in journals including, Journal of Econometrics, Quantitative Economics, and Econometric Theory.

Homepage: https://www.bschool.cuhk.edu.hk/staff/liu-ruixuan/

Dr. Tassos MAGDALINOS, University of Southampton

Dr. Tassos MAGDALINOS is Professor at University of Southampton. He received his Ph.D. from University of York in 2005. His research interest is time series and financial econometrics. His work has been published in journals including, Journal of Econometrics, Econometric Theory and Journal of Time Series Analysis.

Homepage: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/people/5x7sz7/professor-anastasios-magdalinos

Dr. Hyungsik Roger MOON, University of Southern California

Dr. Hyungsik Roger MOON is Professor of Economics at University of Southern California. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University in 1998. His main research areas are panel-data models, network models, statistical learning, etc. His work has been published in leading journals including, Econometrica, Journal of Econometrics, Quantitative Economics, Econometric Theory, and Journal of Business and Economic Statistics.

Homepage: https://dornsife.usc.edu/hyungsik-roger-moon

Dr. Qi-Man SHAO, Southern University of Science and Technology

Qi-Man SHAO, Chair Professor at Southern University of Science and Technology, China. His main research areas are the limit theory in probability and the asymptotic large sample theory in statistics. He has made fundamental contributions for the self-normalized limit theory and the Stein method for normal and nonnormal approximation. Noticeable honors and professional services include: an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians (2010); IMS Medallion Lecturer, a Keynote Speaker at the 2011 Joint Statistical Meetings; State National Science Award (2nd class) (2015); co-Editor, The Annals of Applied Probability (1/2022 - 12/2024 ); Associate Editor, Bernoulli (1/2013 - 12/2021 ); Associate Editor, The Annals of Statistics (11/2003 - 12/2012 ).

Homepage: https://www.sustech.edu.cn/en/faculties/shaoqiman.html

Dr. Xiaofeng SHAO, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Dr. Xiaofeng SHAO is now a full professor at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was granted his Ph.D. degree in statistics by University of Chicago in 2006. His research interests lie in time series analysis, functional data analysis, change point detection, and high-dimensional data analysis. His paper has appeared in leading journals including, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B: Statistical Methodology, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Annals of Statistics, Biometrika, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics. Dr. Shao is an elected fellow of IMS and ASA and currently serves as associate editors for Journal of the American Statistical Association, Journal of Royal Statistical Society, Series B, and Journal of Time Series Analysis.

Homepage: https://experts.illinois.edu/en/persons/xiaofeng-shao