Jun Liu
Tsinghua University
Professor Jun Liu has been conducting research and making outstanding contributions in the fields of Bayesian statistical theory, Monte Carlo methods, statistical machine learning, state-space models and time series, bioinformatics, and computational biology, exerting profound influence on the areas of big data processing and machine learning. In 2002, he received the COPSS Presidents' Award, widely regarded as the highest honor in the international statistics community. In 2010, he was awarded the Morningside Gold Medal in Applied Mathematics, the highest honor in applied mathematics for Chinese scholars worldwide (awarded triennially to individuals under 45). In 2014, he was recognized by ISI as a highly cited mathematician. In 2016, he received the Po-Ling Yeh Award from the International Chinese Statistical Association (awarded triennially to individuals under 51). In 2004 and 2005, he became a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the American Statistical Association, respectively. In 2022, he was elected as a Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology. Professor Jun Liu has also served as the Co-Editor of the Journal of the American Statistical Association (JASA) and as an Associate Editor for several other leading international statistics journals. As of May 2025, he has published over 300 papers in various top-tier international academic journals (such as Science, Nature, Cell, JASA, and JMLR) and books, along with one monograph, which have been cited more than 90,000 times (Google Scholar).
Richard J. Samworth
University of Cambridge
Richard J. Samworth is Professor of Statistical Science and Director of the Statistical Laboratory at the University of Cambridge. His main research interests are in high-dimensional and nonparametric statistics: he has developed methods and theory for shape-constrained inference, data perturbation techniques (subsampling, the bootstrap, random projections, knockoffs), changepoint estimation and classification.
He has received the COPSS Presidents' Award, the Adams prize, a Philip Leverhulme Prize, the Royal Statistical Society (RSS) Guy Medal in Bronze and the RSS Research Prize.