Martin Wainwright

Massachusetts Institute of Technology（MIT）

Martin Wainwright is the Cecil H. Green Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Mathematics at MIT, and affiliated with the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems and Statistics and Data Science Center.

Wainwright is broadly interested in statistics, machine learning, information theory and optimization. He has received a number of awards and recognition including an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship, best paper awards from the IEEE Signal Processing Society, the IEEE Communications Society, and the IEEE Information Theory and Communication Societies, the Medallion Lectureship and Award from the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and the COPSS Presidents’ Award from the Joint Statistical Societies. He was a Section Lecturer with the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2014 and received the Blackwell Award from the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 2017. He has co-authored several books, including on graphical models with Michael Jordan, on sparse statistical modeling with Trevor Hastie and Rob Tibshirani, and a solo-authored book on high dimensional statistics.

Song Xi Chen

Peking University

Songxi Chen (Chinese: 陈松蹊), Chair Professor of Peking University; Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences; Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, the American Statistical Association and the American Association for the Advancement of Science; Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute; Scientific Secretary of the Bernoulli Society.