Dr. Xinmin Li a professor at the School of Mathematics and Statistics at Qingdao University. He earned his Ph.D. in Probability and Statistics from the Institute of Mathematics and Systems Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2004. He is Director of the Research Center for Statistics and Data Analysis and previously served as Vice Dean of the School of Mathematics and Statistics. His research interests include fiducial inference, computer experiments, model averaging, and data analysis, among others.