Speaker

Rongling Wu is Vice President and Research Fellow at Beijing Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Applications (BIMSA) and Zeng Siming Chair Professor at Yau Mathematical Sciences Center, Tsinghua University. He was Distinguished Professor of Statistics at The Pennsylvania State University before joining BIMSA in 2022. His academic trajectory is contextualized on three distinct milestones. As a field biologist, he bred superior varieties of poplar (Populus) trees aimed to uplift the regional economy and environmental quality. Given that tree breeding critically relies on data analysis, his research interest migrates to statistics. As an applied statistician, he invented functional mapping and functional clustering for gene detection which have now become a mainstream approach for modern genetic and genomic research in the era of big data. After joining BIMSA, he cross-pollinates his biological and statistical knowledge to mathematical frameworks to leverage statistics from a tool to a science. As an applied mathematician, he establishes the mathematical foundation of artificial intelligence and complexity science.

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