Zhou Yong received a BS in Mathematics from the Central China Normal University of China, a Master’s degree in Statistics from the University of Science and Technology of China, and a Ph.D. in Statistics from the Institute of Applied Mathematics of CAS. He teaches at the Faculty of Economics and Management, East China Normal University. He is a distinguished young scholar supported by the National Science Fund, and a national scientist of China for the new century. He is interested in statistical methods in big data, Financial econometrics and risk management, Econometrics, and longitudinal and multivariate survival data analysis. His primary research focuses on developing and justifying statistical methods that are used to solve practical problems. This is expanded into other disciplines where the statistics discipline is useful.
