Jie Yang is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He graduated from Nankai University with a BS degree in 1996 and received a PhD degree in Applied Mathematics from Nankai University Chern Institute of Mathematics in 2001. He received a Doctorate in Statistics from the University of Chicago in 2006. He served as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago from 2006 to 2012, as an Associate Professor from 2012 to 2020, and became a Professor in 2020. His research interests include categorical data analysis, experimental design, bioinformatics, biostatistics, dimension reduction, and financial mathematics.