Lijian Yang earned B.S. in Mathematics from Peking University (1987), Ph.D. in Statistics from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1995). He was postdoc at Humboldt Universität (1997), Assistant Professor (1997-2001), Tenured Associate Professor (2001-06), Tenured Full Professor (2006-14), Graduate Director (2007-10) at Michigan State University. During 2011-16, he was Specially-Appointed Professor at Soochow University in China, where he established and directed the Center for Advanced Statistics and Econometrics Research. From 2016, he is Tenured Full Professor at Tsinghua University. He has published over 90 SCI/SSCI articles, on dimension reduction, time series, functional data, econometrics, food science, agronomy, genetics, neuroscience, etc. He was elected a Member of the International Statistical Institute, Fellow of the American Statistical Association, Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and Distinguished Fellow of the International Engineering and Technology Institute. He was the second American scientist to have won the Tjalling C. Koopmans Econometric Theory Prize. Lijian Yang has graduated 19 Ph.D. students: 5 Tenured Full Professors, 1 Tenured Associate Professor in the US, 3 Associate Professors, 6 Lecturers in China. He has 34 additional Ph.D. descendants: 1 Tenured Associate Professor, 5 Assistant Professors in the US, 1 Professor and 1 Associate Professor in China, 1 Assistant Professor in Korea.