On April 30, 2025 (local time April 29), the U.S. National Academy of Sciences announced the election of new members and foreign associates. This year, a total of 120 members and 30 foreign associates were elected. Professor Liu Jun, Director of the Preparatory Committee for the Department of Statistics and Data Science at Tsinghua University, has been elected as a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.
**Professor Liu Jun**
Liu Jun received his Bachelor's degree in Mathematics from Peking University in 1985 and his Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Chicago in 1991. Since 2000, he has served as a tenured professor in the Department of Statistics at Harvard University and was also a professor in the Department of Biostatistics at Harvard from 2003 to 2015. Previously, he was an assistant professor in the Department of Statistics at Harvard (1991-1994) and held positions as assistant professor, associate professor, and tenured professor in the Department of Statistics at Stanford University (1994-2004). In 2015, he led the establishment of the Center for Statistical Science at Tsinghua University and served as its Honorary Director until 2024. In July 2024, as the Director of the Preparatory and Development Committee, he led the creation of the Department of Statistics and Data Science at Tsinghua University.
Liu Jun has long been engaged in research and has made outstanding contributions in fields such as Bayesian statistical theory, Monte Carlo methods, statistical machine learning, state-space models and time series, bioinformatics, and computational biology, exerting a profound influence on the areas of big data processing and machine learning. He received the COPSS Presidents' Award in 2002 (widely regarded as the highest honor in international statistics); the Morningside Gold Medal of Applied Mathematics in 2010 (awarded triennially to individuals under 45, representing the highest honor for Chinese applied mathematicians); was recognized by ISI in 2014 as a mathematician with highly cited papers; received the Pao-Lu Hsu Award from the International Chinese Statistical Association in 2016 (awarded triennially to individuals under 51); became a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2004 and 2005, respectively; and was elected as a Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology in 2022. Professor Liu Jun has also served as co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of the American Statistical Association (JASA) and as an associate editor for several top-tier international statistics journals. As of May 2025, he has published over 300 papers and one monograph in various leading international academic journals (such as *Science*, *Nature*, *Cell*, *JASA*, *JMLR*, etc.) and books, with over 90,000 citations (Google Scholar). He has supervised more than 40 Ph.D. students and over 30 postdoctoral researchers.
