Bingyi Jing
Affiliation:Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen ; Southern University of Science and Technology
Bingyi Jing is the Yongping Chair Professor at the School of Artificial Intelligence, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen; Professor at Shenzhen Hetao Institute; and Chair Professor in the Department of Statistics and Data Science, as well as Director of the Big Data Innovation Center, Southern University of Science and Technology.
He received his Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from Lanzhou University in 1985, his Master of Science in Operations Research from the University of Technology Sydney in 1989, and his Doctor of Philosophy in Statistics from the University of Sydney in 1993. From 1992 to 1994, he undertook his postdoctoral research at The Australian National University under the supervision of the internationally renowned statistician Professor Peter Hall. He worked at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology from 1994 to 2022, serving as Director of the Center for Statistical Science.
Professor Jing was awarded the Second Prize of the National Natural Science Award, appointed as Yangtze River Scholar Distinguished Professor by the Ministry of Education, received the Second Prize of the Higher Education Natural Science Award from the Ministry of Education, and is a National Distinguished Expert. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA Fellow), a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS Fellow), and an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI). He serves as Chairman of the Multivariate Analysis Committee of the Chinese Society for Probability and Statistics, and has successively acted as Associate Editor for seven international academic journals, including Annals of Applied Probability, Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, and Science China.
His research interests cover probability and statistics, econometrics, network data, reinforcement learning, bioinformatics, and artificial intelligence. He has published more than 130 papers in top-tier international journals and conferences, including Annals of Statistics, Annals of Probability, JASA, JRSSB, Biometrika, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, Bioinformatics, JMLR, Science China, NeurIPS, and ICLR.
He maintains in-depth cooperation with industry institutions and has been awarded the Huawei Spark Award and the Huawei Outstanding Cooperation Achievement Award.