The main objective of the virtual center is to promote and support
exchanges and collaborations between US-based and China-based
researchers and educators in statistical science, and enable the US
researchers and educators to have broad as well as specific
interactions with their counterparts in China.
The virtual center has no bricks and walls. Its activities are guided
by a scientific committee and executed by the Co-Directors Dr. Xuming
He and Dr. Feng Liang. The scientific committee members are:
The center supports the following activities
- support distinguished researchers in the US to visit
Chinese institutions to give lectures and/or short courses
on cutting-edge topics in statistics.
- support Chinese scholars to visit the US or US researchers
to visit China to give lectures in selected institutions and
to collaborate with researchers and students in the other
country.
- co-sponsor conferences and workshops in China that benefit
US-China collaborations among researchers and students in
statistics.
- US-based researchers, who have well-thought-out research plans
for collaboration with China-based counterparts but have no
access to research funds to enable such a collaboration, can
apply for support from the Center. Travel and other necessary
expenses for the collaboration will be reimbursed by the
center, if the collaboration plan is pre-approved by the
scientific committee. To request support, please contact Dr. Feng Liang (email: liangf at uiuc dot edu)
with the following information:
- A copy of updated CV
- A cover letter, including the reason for the request
- A one-page summary of planned collaborative research activities with
a Chinese researcher or researchers. Please indicate, as appriproate,
if and how the collaboration benefits junior researchers, students, or
anyone in the under-represented group in the US.
All requests will be considered by the Center within 3 months from the
time the requests are received.
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