1. Tom Britton,  Stockholm University

Introduction：Dr. Tom Britton holds the Cramér chair Professor in Mathematical Statistics of Stockholm University, Sweden since 2009. Dr. Britton received his Ph.D. degree from Stockholm University in 1996. He then did a Post Doc in Australia with Niels Becker and then became associate professor at Uppsala University (Sweden) until he returned to Stockholm University in 2003. Dr. Britton has been working on infectious disease modelling for about 25 years. He has published 3 research monographs on epidemic models, and 100+ research papers in international peer reviewed journals in the areas of Probability, Statistics and their Applications towards Biology and Medicine. Dr. Britton is serving as the Dean of Mathematics & Physics at Stockholm University, and also as the Chairman of Cramér Society (Swedish Society for Academic Statisticians).

2. Shein-Chung Chow,  Duke University

Introduction：Dr. Chow is a Professor of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina. Prior to joining Duke University, he was Executive Director of National Clinical Trial Network Coordination Center of Taiwan. Prior to that, Dr. Chow held various management positions in the pharmaceutical industry. Dr. Chow is the Editorin-Chief of the Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics and the Editor-in-Chief of the Biostatistics Book Series at Chapman and Hall/CRC Press of Taylor & Francis Group. He was elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1995. He was the recipient of the DIA Outstanding Service Award (1996), and ICSA Extraordinary Achievement Award (1996). Dr. Chow is the author or coauthor of over 200 methodology papers and 20 books, which include Design and Analysis of Bioavailability and Bioequivalence Studies, Design and Analysis of Clinical Trials, Sample Size Calculations in Clinical Research, and Adaptive Design Methods in Clinical Trials.

3. Geert Molenberghs,  Hasselt University and KU Leuven

4. Dylan Small,  University of Pennsylvania

Introduction：Dr. Dylan Small is a Wharton Professor of Statistics at the Department of Statistics, the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, an associate scholar at Biostatistics Unit, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and also a senior fellow of Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics. His research interests includes applications of statistics to public health, design and analysis of experiments and observational studies for comparing treatments, longitudinal data, measurement error, medicine and economics. He is the fellow of American Statistical Association. Dr. Small has published over 200 papers in Statistics and other related areas. He has served as the Associate Editor for many famous journals, such as the Annals of Statistics, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Journal of Causal Inference, Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, and The American Statistician.

5. Jinchao Xu,  Pennsylvania State University

Introduction：Dr. Jinchao Xu holds the titles of Verne M. Willaman Professor of Mathematics, Director of the Center for Computational Mathematics & Applications at the Pennsylvania State University. He was a plenary speaker at the International Congress for Industrial and Applied Mathematics in 2007 and a 45-minute invited speaker at the International Congress for Mathematicians in 2010. He is a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) and also a fellow in the inaugural class of the American Mathematical Society (AMS). In 2019, Dr. Xu was elected as the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow. Xu’s research specialty is numerical methods for partial differential equations that arise from modeling scientific and engineering problems. One major research interest is in multigrid methods for their theoretical analysis, algorithmic developments, and practical application, especially developing, designing, and analyzing fast methods for solving large-scale systems of equations. His work ranges from studying fundamental theoretical questions in numerical analysis to developing and applying numerical algorithms for practical applications. He is, perhaps, best known for the Bramble-Pasciak-Xu preconditioner — an algorithm that is one of the two most fundamental multigrid approaches to solve large-scale discretized partial differential equations. He is also noted for the Hiptmair-Xu preconditioner, which was featured in 2008 by the U.S. Department of Energy as one of the top 10 breakthroughs in computational science in recent years.

6. Donglin Zeng,  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Introduction：Dr. Donglin Zeng is a Professor at the Department of Biostatistics at Gillings School of Global Public Health. Dr. Zeng is an expert on semiparametric models, machine learning and high-dimensional inference with important contributions to personalized medicine, survival analysis, causal inference, statistical genetics and clinical trials. He has published over 200 papers, most of which have appeared in first-tier statistical journals. Dr. Zeng is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.

Introduction：Dr. Xiao-Hua(Andrew) ZHOU, PKU Endowed Chair Professor at Beijing International Center for Mathematical Research and Chair of the Department of Biostatistics at Peking University. Dr. Zhou is a renowned statistician. He was elected to the Fellow of the ASA; American Association for the Advancement of Science and Institute of Mathematical Statistics. He has made many important contributions to medicine and public health by developing new statistical methods, particularly in diagnostic medicine and causal inference. He has published over 260 statistical methodology and medical papers and is either the corresponding author or senior author on most of them; many of them have been published in top statistical journals, such as Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Biometrics, Biometrika, Annals of Statistics, and Statistics in Medicine. He served as Chair of the Section on Statistics in Epidemiology of the American Statistical Association, Chair of the Health Policy Statistics Section of the American Statistical Association, and Chair of the Mental Health Statistics Section of the American Statistical Association. Dr. Zhou is currently President of International Biometric Society (Chinese Region) and President of Biomedicine Statistics Society of Chinese Association for Applied Statistics. His research interests include biostatistics, causal inference, statistical methods in diagnostic medicine, the analysis of big data, statistical methods in Chinese Medicine, and mathematical and statistical modeling of infectious disease data.

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