Dr. Ji Zhu is Susan A. Murphy Professor of Statistics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He received his B.Sc. in Physics from Peking University, China in 1996 and M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Statistics from Stanford University in 2000 and 2003, respectively. His primary research interests include statistical machine learning, high-dimensional data modeling, statistical network analysis, and their applications to health sciences. He received an NSF CAREER Award in 2008, and was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2013 and a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 2015. He has been rated as an ISI Highly Cited Researcher from 2014-2020 by Web of Science, which publishes an annual list recognizing leading researchers in the sciences and social sciences from around the world. He also received the International Chinese Statistical Association Pao-Lu Hsu Award in 2022.