By Xuming He

Current Position
  • Deborah Beckmann Kotzubei and Jacob Kotzubei Distinguished Professor, Department of Statistics and Data Science, Washington University in St. Louis
  • President (2023-2025), International Statistical Institute.
    • Professional Honors and Associations
  • The Founders Award from the American Statistical Association (2021);
  • Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award (2021), University of Michigan;
  • Rackham Distinguished Graduate Mentoring Award (2021);
  • Distinguished Achievement Award from the International Chinese Statistical Association (2015);
  • IMS Medallion Lecturer, Keynote Speaker at the 2007 Joint Statistical Meetings, Salt Lake City;
  • Jerry and Ann Nerad Professorial Scholar Award (2005) by the College of LAS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign;
  • Fellow of The American Statistical Association
  • Fellow of Institute of Mathematical Statistics
  • Fellow of The International Statistical Institute
  • Fellow of the the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS);
    • Professional Services
  • Co-editor of JASA (Theory & Methods), 2012-1014;
  • Chair of the Program Committee, 59th World Statistics Congress of the International Statistical Institute (ISI) (at Hong Kong, 2013);
  • Chair, ASA Committee on Meetings, 2012-2016;
  • Program Chair, Joint Statistical Meetings, 2010;
  • Editor of the IMS Bulletin (2007-2010);
  • Associate Editor of Journal of the American Statistical Association (2004-2010), Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B (2010-2018), Statistics and Probability Letters (1994-2010), Science China Mathematics (2014-present), Statistica Sinica (1996-2002, 2005-2011), The Annals of Statistics (2004-2011); Co-Editor of Sankhya (2004-2007); Co-Editor of Statistics and its Interface (2007- 2010); Editor of Journal of Multivariate Analysis (1998-2004); Guest Editor for a special issue of Science in China, Series A (2009) and Computational Statistics & Data Analysis (2010).
  • Co-Chair, American Statistical Association Task Force on Statistical Significance and Replicability (2019-2020), ASA Committee on Noether Awards (2008-2011), ASA Committee on Meetings (2009-2011 and as Chair 2012-2017), the Search Committee for the ASA Executive Director (2006), ASA Committee on Federally Funded Research (2006-2009), ASA Committee on Scientific Freedom and Human Rights (1998-2000);
  • Elected Council member of IMS 2004-2006; Chair of the IMS Travel Award Committee (2005-2006); Chair of the IMS Nomination Committee (2005-2006); Chair of the IMS Ad hoc Committee on IMS China (2007); Member of IMS Special Lectures Committee (2019-2022); Chair of IMS Committee to Select Editors (2020-2021);
  • President of the International Chinese Statistical Association (ICSA) (2010); On the Board of Directors of ICSA (2003-2005, 2009-2011);Chair of the ICSA Nomination and Election Committee (2005);
  • Elected Council member of the ISI (2012-2017); Chair of ISI Publications Committee (2015-2018); Member of ISI Awards Committee (2016-2017);
  • Elected member of the Steering Committee of the U Section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2017-2021);
  • Member of U.S. National Commission for Mathematics (2017-2021, appointed by the National Academy of Sciences).
    • Other Positions Held
  • H.C. Carver Collegiate Professor of Statistics (2011-2023), Chair of Department of Statistics (2015-2020), University of Michigan.
  • Professor of Statistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (through August 2011);
  • Program Director of Statistics, National Science Foundation (August 2003 - August, 2005);
  • Director, Illinois Statistics Office (2000-2003);
  • Honorary Professor, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, The University of Hong Kong ( 2011-2017);
  • Honarary Professor, East China Normal University (2002-2008);
  • Senior Fellow, Department of Mathematics, National University of Singapore (12/97 - 07/98);
  • Lecture, Department of Mathematics, National University of Singapore (10/89 - 07/93);
  • Co-Chair of the Scientific Committee, Center for Statistical Research, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2006 - 2011);
  • Changjiang (Cheung Kong) Visiting Professor at Northeast Normal University, supported by the Ministry of Education of China and Li Ka Shing Foundation of Hong Kong (2008-2011); Chair of Aacademic Committee on Statistics, Northeast Normal University (2014-);
  • Honorary Professor of Statistics, School of Management, Fudan University (2007-2020); Co-Chair of Academic Committee for School of data Science, Fudan University (2018-2020);
  • Co-Chair of Academic Committee for Institute of Statistics and Big Data, Renmin University (2020-2022);
  • Board of Trustees, National Institute of Statistical Science (2021-2023);
  • Consultant to Argonne National Laboratory (1994-1996) ;
  • Reviewer for Mathematical Reviews (1994-2002).
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