Yan Gong is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She holds Master’s and Ph.D. degrees in Statistics from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) working with Prof. Raphael Huser, and a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics from Xi’an Jiaotong University (XJTU). Before her current position, she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Imperial College London (ICL). Dr.

Professor and head of Econometrics and Business Statistics, School of Business, Monash University Malaysia. Served as professor at School of Statistics, University of the Philippines Diliman, visiting professor at Karlstad University and visiting researcher at Asian Development Bank Institute. His research interest focused on computational statistics, nonparametric methods, high frequency and high dimensional time series, big data analytics and financial econometrics.

Distinguished Professor of Statistics at QUT, ISI Vice-President

Professor Kerrie Mengersen is a globally recognised leader in statistical science. She is a Distinguished Professor at Queensland University of Technology (QUT), where she leads the QUT Centre for Data Science, and an Associate Member of the Department of Statistics at the University of Oxford. She currently serves as Vice-President of the International Statistical Institute.

Thomas Lumley is Professor of Biostatistics in the Department of Statistics at the University of Auckland. He is a Fellow of the ASA and the Royal Society of New Zealand, and a member of the R Core Development Team. Thomas develops the survey package for R and has a research focus on design and analysis of two-phase samples in health studies.