Zudi Lu joined the City University of Hong Kong at the end of July 2024. He was working with the University of Southampton as a Professor/Chair in Statistics from late 2013 to July 2024 in the UK. He had also worked at the University of Adelaide (2009-2013) and Curtin University (2006-2009) in Australia, the London School of Economics (2003-2006) in the UK, the Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science (1997-2003) in Beijing, China, and the Universite Catholique de Louvain (1996-1997) in Belgium after receiving his PhD degree in Statistics in 1996 from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (1993-1996), and worked with the Southeast University (1991-1993) in Nanjing, China, after obtaining his MSc degree in Statistics in 1991 also from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (1988-1991). He received his BSc degree in Mathematics from Zhejiang Normal University in 1988. He was a recipient of the Australian Research Council Future Fellowship Award as an Australian Future Fellow (the Australian Distinguished Young Scientist Fund, with Zudi the first winner of this prestigious award in the School of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Adelaide) in its 2010 round and the Marie Curie Actions (People) Career Integration Grant Award as a Marie Curie Fellow from the European Commission in 2014. He was also a joint recipient of a Key Project fund award from the National Natural Science Foundation of China in 2000. He is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute.