Song Xi Chen, Ph.D., Peking University
ICSA member Song Xi Chen of Peking University has been elected as a member of the Chinese Academy of Science (CAS). He and other 64 scholars were elected to the academy during the 2021 Assembly of Academicians of CAS held in early November 2021. Chen is elected to the Mathematics and Physics Division. The previous statistics members of CAS were late Professors Pau Lu Hsu (1948-1970) and Xiru Chen (1997- 2005). In addition, the 2022 Peter Hall Lecture will be delivered by Professor Song Xi Chen of Peking University, China, at the 2022 ICSA International Conference in Hong Kong with the specific dates to be determined. In honor of Professor Peter Hall’s life and achievements and his contributions to the ICSA, the ICSA has established the Peter Hall Lecture. Professor Peter Gavin Hall was an Australian statistician who made profound and creative contributions in mathematical statistics and probability theory. He was a strong supporter and friend of the ICSA and Chinese statisticians, especially young researchers. He was a constant source of inspiration for the ICSA members. Professor Song Xi Chen is a University Chair Professor affiliated with School of Mathematical Sciences, Guanghua School of Management and Center for Statistical Science in Peking University in China. Prior to that, he was on the faculty in the Department of Statistics at Iowa State University and was Associate Professor of Statistics in the National University of Singapore. His research interests are in the general area of non-parametric statistics, and more specifically in inference for high dimensional data; environmental modeling; empirical likelihood; inference for stochastic processes; econometric theory and financial econometrics; missing data problems; multiple system surveys for the US census. He has published over 110 manuscripts in the statistical journals and has mentored 21 doctoral students. His recent work on air quality in China was widely cited and reported in the New York Times. Professor Chen is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute. He has served in various editorial roles for the top-tier journals in statistics and served as a board of director for the International Chinese Statistical Association. He received the PhD in Statistics from the Australian National University (1993), an MSc in Statistics and Operations Research from Victoria University in New Zealand (1990), and an MSc in Mathematical Statistics (1988) and a BSc in Mathematics from Beijing Normal University (1983).