Biographical Sketch for Jianqing Fan Jianqing Fan is Frederick L. Moore'18 Professor of Finance and Director of Commit- tee of Statistical Studies at Princeton University, and the past president of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (2006-2009), and president of International Chinese Statistical Association. He is the Co-editor of Econometrical Journal published by Royal Economics Society and an associate editor of The Journal of American Statistical Association, and was the co-editor(-in-chief) of The Annals of Statistics (2004-2006) and an editor of Prob- ability Theory and Related Fields (2003-2005) and on the editorial boards of a number of other journals. After receiving his Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of California at Berkeley, he has been appointed as assistant, associate, and full professor at the Univer- sity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1989-2003), and as professor at the University of California at Los Angeles (1997-2000), Professor of Statistics and Chairman at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (2000-2003), and as professor at the Princeton University(2003{). He has coauthored two highly-regarded books on \Local Polynomial Modeling" (1996) and \Nonlinear time series: Parametric and Nonparametric Methods" (2003) and authored or coauthored over 150 articles on computational biology, ¯nancial econometrics, semipara- metric and non-parametric modeling, statistical learning, nonlinear time series, survival analysis, longitudinal data analysis, and other aspects of theoretical and methodological statistics. He has been consistently ranked as a top 10 highly-cited mathematical scientist since the existence of such a ranking. His published work on statistics, ¯nancial econo- metrics, and computational biology has been recognized by The 2000 COPSS Presidents' Award, given annually to an outstanding statistician under age 40, invited speaker at The 2006 International Congress for Mathematicians, The Humboldt Research Award for life- time achievement in 2006, The Morngside Gold Medal of Applied Mathematics in 2007, honoring triennially an outstanding applied mathematician of Chinese decent, Guggenheim Fellow in 2009, and the election to the follow of American Associations for Advancement of Science, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and American Statistical Association. His re- search on statistics theory and methods has been funded by various federal agencies, includ- ing NSF, NIH and NSA. He has been frequently invited to various professional conferences and workshops and played various leadership roles in statistice and ¯nance communities. 1.