ICSA member Song Xi Chen of Peking University has been elected as a member of the Chinese Academy of Science (CAS). He and other 64 scholars were elected to the academy during the 2021 Assembly of Academicians of CAS held in early November 2021. Chen is elected to the Mathematics and Physics Division. The previous statistics members of CAS were late Professors Pau Lu Hsu (1948-1970) and Xiru Chen (1997-2005). Chen is current a PKU Chair Professor in the School of Mathematical Sciences, Guanghua School of Management and Center for Statistical Science. Prior to joining Peking University as the Chair of the Business Statistics and Econometrics Department in 2008 and later as the founding director of Center for Statistical Science, he had held faculty positions in Iowa State University, National University of Singapore, La Trobe University, CSIRO Marine Laboratory and Beijing Economic College. He was a member of the ICSA Board from 2008-2009, the Co-editor of Statistics and Its Interface (2010-2013) which is an ICSA co-sponsored journal.
Congratulations to Dr. Song Xi Chen