Jianqing FAN

is a statistician and financial econometrician. He is Frederick L. Moore ’18 Professor of Finance, Professor of Statistics, and former Chairman of Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering at the Princeton University. He is the winner of the 2000 COPSS Presidents’ Award, Morningside Gold Medal for Applied Mathematics (2007), and Guggenheim Fellow (2009), Pao-Lu Hsu Prize (2013) and Guy Medal in Silver (2014). He was elected to Academia Sinica in 2012.

Zongben XU

is a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a mathematician and expert of Signal and Information Processing. He serves as the chief scientist of “The Basic Theory and Key Technology ofIntellisense for Unstructured Environment”, the National Basic Research Programof China (973 Project) and BeijingCenter for Mathematics and Information Interdisciplinary Sciences.