Dr. Ding Xin, Associate Professor, and Master’s Supervisor, is a recipient of a national-level young talent program. He received his B.S. degree in Statistics from Anhui University in 2014, his M.S. degree in Statistics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2016, and his Ph.D. degree in Statistics from the University of British Columbia in 2021, under the supervision of Professor Z. Jane Wang (Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering and IEEE Fellow) and Professor William J. Welch (ASA Fellow). He joined the School of Artificial Intelligence at Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology in 2023. His research interests include probabilistic generative models, knowledge distillation, and AI for Science (e.g., healthcare and meteorology). He has led one Youth Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, one General Program of Jiangsu Provincial Basic Research Fund, one supporting project for recipients of Jiangsu’s major national talent program, one Nanjing Science and Technology Innovation Project for Returned Scholars (Category C), and one start-up funding project from Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology. As first author, he has published more than ten papers in top international journals and conferences such as IEEE TPAMI, IEEE TSP, ESWA, Neurocomputing, ICLR, and AAAI.