Meet the editor

Niansheng Tang is a professor of statistics and Dean of the School of Mathematics and Statistics, at Yunnan University, China. He was elected as a Yangtze River Scholars Distinguished Professor in 2013, as a member of the International Statistical Institute in 2016, as a member of the Board of Directors of the International Chinese Statistical Association (ICSA) in 2018, and as a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Sta-

tistics in 2021. He received the ICSA Outstanding Service Award in 2018 and the National Science Foundation Award for Distinguished Young Scholars of China in 2012. He is a member of the editorial board for *Statistics and Its Interface* and the *Journal of Systems Science and Complexity*. He is also a field editor for *Communications in Mathematics and Statistics*. His research interests include Bayesian statistics, missing data analysis, variable selection, high-dimensional data analysis, data science, and machine learning. He has published more than 200 research papers and authored seven books.
