Prof. Dr. Wenhao Gui is a professor at the School of Mathematics and Statistics, Beijing Jiaotong University, and the director of the Department of Data Science. He is also a distinguished expert of the Overseas Talents Program of the China Association for Science and Technology; an evaluation expert of the Degree Center of the Ministry of Education; an evaluation expert of the Personnel Department of the Ministry of Education; an expert in setting questions for the Examination Institute of the Ministry of Education; an evaluation expert of the China Scholarship Council; and an executive director of the Reliability Engineering Branch of the China Field Statistics Research Association. He received his Ph.D. in Statistics from the Department of Statistics of Florida State University in 2009. His research interests are Bayesian statistics and survival analysis, data analysis and mining, probability theory, and mathematical statistics.