Jian Qing Shi is a professor of Statistics in the Department of Statistics and Data science, and also the Director of the Center for Biostatistics at Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), China. Prior to joining Sustech in 2020, he held the position of Reader in the School of Mathematics, Statistics & Physics, and was a Turing Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute UK. His research interests include functional data analysis, Bayesian nonparametric analysis for big data, missing data, meta-analysis and applications in medicine and system control. He is the principal investigator for several significant research projects in both China and UK, including the National Key R&D Program of China (PI, 11.1 million RMB).