Professor SHI Jianqing, Chair Professor, Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, is Executive Dean of the Graduate School, at Beijing Normal-Hong Kong Baptist University. He earned his doctoral degree from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Prior to BNBU, he worked as a Professor of Statistics in the Department of Statistics and Data Science, as well as the Director of the Center for Biostatistics, at the Southern University of Science and Technology. He previously served as a Turing Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute in the UK, Reader in the School of Mathematics, Statistics & Physics at Newcastle University and Assistant Director of Cloud Computing for Big Data CDT.
Prof Shi conducts research in functional data analysis, Bayesian nonparametric analysis for big data, missing data, meta-analysis and applications in medicine. He is the principal investigator for several major research projects in both China and the UK, including the National Key R&D Program of China. He has also been a visiting research fellow in the Newton Institute at Cambridge in the UK and SAMSI in the USA. Together with his team, he has produced many influential and original research contributions, publishing extensively in top statistical and medical journals including the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B (Statistical Methodology), the Journal of the American Statistical Association, Biometrika, Nature Medicine, and the British Medical Journal. His work has earned recognition in the statistics and related communities, and he has also received international best paper awards, including the Best Paper award at the IEEE International Conference on Serious Games and Applications for Health, and the Best Paper award from the Journal of Nonparametric Statistics and the American Statistical Association on Nonparametric Statistics.
