Here are some of my recent professional activities:

  • Invited seminar talk at Department of Statistics, University of Chicago in March, 1997.
  • Invited seminar talk at Department of Statistics, Columbia University in April, 1997.
  • Invited speaker at The Seventh Eugene Lukacs Symposium in Bowling Green, Ohio in April 1997.
  • Invited speaker at the 1997 Annual Meeting of the Classification Society of North America (CSNA) in Washington D.C. in June 1997.
  • Organizer of an ASA invited session at the Joint Statistical Meeting in August 1997.
  • Invited lecturer for the summer graduate programs of Nankai Institute of Mathematics in Tianjin, China (July-August 1997).
  • Invited speaker at the Third International Conference on Statistical Data Analysis based on the L1-Norm and Related Methods in Neuchatel, Switzerland, August, 1997.
  • Colloquium speaker at Department of Mathematics, University of Oregon , Eugene, November, 1997.
  • Visiting Senior Fellow at Department of Mathematics, National University of Singapore , January - July 1998.
  • Invited speaker at the Clinical Trials & Epidemiology Research Unit, Ministry of Health of Singapore, February, 1998.
  • Invited speaker at the Symposium on Probability and Statistics, Singapore, June 15, 1998.
  • Organizer and Chair of "Robust Statistics" session in the 4th ICSA International Statistics Conference , Kunming, China, August, 1998.
  • Invited seminar speaker at the Statistics Research Department at Bell Labs, Murray Hill on Nov. 5, 1998.
  • Invited seminar speaker at the Department of Mathematics of MIT on April 14, 1999.
  • Invited seminar speaker at Department of Mathematics, Beijing Normal University on May 26, 1999.
  • Invited seminar speaker at the Institute of System Sciences, Chinese National Academy (Beijing) on May 28, 1999.
  • Invited speaker at the Joint Statistical Meeting in Baltimore, August, 1999.
  • Colloquium speaker at Department of Mathematics, Arizona State University on October 27, 1999.
  • Visiting the University of Hong Kong in the spring, 2000.
  • Seminar speaker at the Department of Statistics, Chinese University of Hong Kong on April 11, 2000.
  • Visitor and seminar speaker at the Institute of System Sciences and the Institute of Applied Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing in June 2000.
  • Invited speaker at the International Conference on Statistics in the 21th Century, Orino, Maine, June 29-July 1, 2000.
  • Organizer of an invited paper session on "Statistical Analysis with Large Dimensions" for the Joint Statistical Meetings in Indianapolis, August, 2000.
  • Invited speaker at the Conference on CONTEMPORARY METHODS OF DATA ANALYSIS: THEORY AND PRACTICE sponsored by THE MINERVA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, March 5-9, 2001, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
  • Seminar speaker at the Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on April 25, 2001.
  • Organizer of "General Statistics" session for the Fifth ICSA International Conference to be held in August 17-19, 2001 in Hong Kong.
  • Invited speaker and Scientific Committee member for the International Conference on Robust Statistics (ICORS2001) in Vorau, Austria, July 23-27, 2001.
  • Seminar speaker at Department of Mathematics, Portland State University, Feb 22, 2002.
  • Seminar speaker at Department of Statistics, Columbia University, March 25, 2002.
  • Project meetings at Degenkolb Engineers , San Francisco, March 17, April 17, June 25, October 8, 2002.
  • Colloquium speaker at Department of Mathematics, University of Oregon, May 20, 2002.
  • Invited speaker and Scientific Committee member for the International Conference on Robust Statistics (ICORS2002) in Vancouver, Canada, May 12-18, 2002.
  • Seminar speaker at Department of Statistics, Fudan University, Shanghai, June 3, 2002.
  • To visit Department of Mathematics and Statistics, York University, Canada on September 20, 2002.
  • To be at the 11th Annual Dysphagia Research Society Meeting , October 2-5, Miama.
  • To visit Department of Statistics, Temple University on October 18, 2002.
  • To visit Portland State University on a professional review panel, October 25, 2002.
  • Seminar speaker at Department of Statistics, Virginia University on December 6, 2002.
  • Seminar speaker at Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Missouri-Kansas City, November 1, 2002.
  • Visiting Department of Statistics, East China Normal University, Shanghai, March, 2003.
  • Session chair at the DIMACS Workshop on Data Depth , DIMACS Center, Rutgers University, May 14-16, 2003.
  • Invited speaker and Scientific Committee member, International Conference on Robust Statistics 2003 , Antwerp, Belgium, July 13-18, 2003.
  • Session chair for "A Forum for Communication with the National Science Foundation" at 2003 Joint Statistical Meetings , San Francisco, August 2-6, 2003.
  • Invited participant in the workshop on "Regularization in Statistics" at the Banff International Research Station for Mathematical Innovation and Discovery (BIRS), September 6-11, 2003.
  • Chair, Organizing Committee of The International Conference on Robust Statistics (ICORS 2004) , Beijing, July 12-16, 2004.
  • Organizing committee member of the Sixth ICSA International Conference , Singapore, July 21-23, 2004.
  • Seminar speaker at Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University , March 5, 2004.
  • Invited participant at the Focused Research Groups on "Robust Analysis of Large Data Sets" at the Banff International Research Station for Mathematical Innovation and Discovery (BIRS), June 5-12, 2004.
  • Seminar speaker at Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago , May 21, 2004.
  • Seminar speaker at Yale School of Public Health, November 16, 2004.
  • Invited talk at East China Normal University, January 5, 2005.
  • Invited speaker on Grantsmanship at Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore, March 1, 2005.
  • Public school lecture, NUS High School, Singapore, March 2, 2005.
  • Tutorial lecturer at the ENAR Meeting, Austin, March, 2005.
  • Seminar speaker at Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland, March 31, 2005.
  • Seminar speaker at Department of Biostatistics, Columbia University, April 14, 2005.
  • Invited speaker at the Perspectives in Modern Statistical Science III, Mikulov, Czech Republic, July 18-22, 2005.
  • Invited session organizer on robust statistics, the 25th European Meeting of Statisticians, Oslo, July, 2005.
  • Session chair and NSF panelist at the Joint Statistical Meeting, Minneapolis, August 2005.
  • Seminar speaker at Department of Statistics, Kansas State University, September 15, 2005.
  • Participant of the CMG Workshop at Research Triangle Park, NC, October 7, 2005.
  • Seminar speaker at Department of Biostatistics and Applied Mathematics, MD Anderson Medical Center, October 19, 2005.
  • Seminar speaker at School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Tech, November 3, 2005.
  • Seminat speaker at Department of Statistics and Probability, Michigan State University, January 17, 2006.
  • Panelist on Validity of Research, the 2006 Annual Meeting of the Dysphagia Research Society, Scottsdale, AZ, March 23, 2006.
  • Seminar speaker at Department of Statistics, Penn State University, State College, April 20, 2006.
  • Invited speaker at the International Forum on Statistics 2006, Renmin University, Peking, China, June 10-11, 2006.
  • Keynote Speaker at the ICMS Workshop on Quantile Regresion, LMS Method and Robust Statistics in the 21st Century, Edinburgh, UK, June 19-23, 3006.
  • International Program Chair, the International Conference on Frontiers of Statistics -- Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Changchun, China, July 7-8, 2006.
  • Invited speaker at the International Conference on Robust Statistics (ICORS) 2006, Lisbon, Portugal, July 16-21, 2006.
  • Visiting Professor at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, summer, 2006.
  • Seminar speaker at Department of Mathematics, Zhejiang University, China, September 13, 2006.
  • Invited lecture at the Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Boston, September 18, 2006.
  • Seminar speaker at the Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin at Madison, October 4, 2006.
  • Colloquium speaker at Department of Mathematics, Washington University in St. Louis, October 19, 2006.
  • Invited speaker at the Biostatistics Workshop, Institute for the Mathematical Science, Singapore, October 23, 2006.
  • Seminar speaker at Department of Statistics, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, November 15, 2006.
  • Colloquium speaker at Department of Statistics, Texas A&M University, December 15, 2006.
  • Colloquium speaker at Department of Statistics, Oregon State University, Feburary 26, 2007.
  • Invited speaker at the ENAR 2007 meeting, Atlanta, March 13, 2007.
  • Seminar speaker at Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Iowa, April 12, 2007.
  • Seminar speaker at the Department of Statistics, Texas A&M University, May 17, 2007.
  • Short course in statistics, Renming University, Beijing, June, 2007.
  • Workshop on Statistical Analysis of Genetic Data, Banff, Canada, June 24-29, 2007.
  • Seminar speaker at the Department of Biostatistics, Columbia University, July 12, 2007.
  • Invited discussant; session organizer, and keynote speaker at the Joint Statistical Meeting, Salt Lake City, July 29- August 2, 2007.
  • Mentor for the ASA Writers Workshop, Salt Lake City, July 29, 2007.
  • Keynote speaker at the International Conference on Frontiers of Statistics - High Dimensional Data, Kunming, China, August 13-15, 2007.
  • Seminar speaker, School of Public Health, Rochester University, September 6, 2007.
  • Scientific Committee member, International Conference on Robust Statistics, Buenos Aires, Argentina, September 17-21, 2007.
  • Seminar speaker, Department of Statistics, University of California at Los Angeles, October 2, 2007.
  • Seminar speaker, Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, November 7, 2007.
  • Colloquium speaker, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Miami University, November 13, 2007.
  • Guest Lecturer on quantile regression, Department of Statistics, Fudan University, China, December 07 - January 08.
  • Seminar speaker, Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering, Princeton University, March 25, 08.
  • Co-Chair of the Scientific Program Committee, the IMS-China International Conference on Statistics and Probability, Hangzhou, June 10-13, 2008.
  • Invited speaker at the first International Biopharmaceutical Statistics Conference, Shanghai, July 30 - July 2, 2008.
  • Invited speaker at the International Workshop on Applied Probability (IWAP)2008), Compiegne, France, July 7 - July 10, 2008.
  • Invited speaker at the Symposium on Advances in Statistics, in honor of the 65th birthday of Professor Zhidong Bai, Singapore, July 20, 2008.
  • Invited speaker and member of the Scientific Committee of the International Conference on Robust Statistics, Antalya, Turkey, September 8 - 12, 2008.