Congratulations to Professor Linglong Kong from the University of Alberta who recently became a fellow of the American Statistical Association.

Dr. Linglong Kong is a professor in the Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences at the University of Alberta. He holds a Canada Research Chair in Statistical Learning and a Canada CIFAR AI Chair. He is a fellow of American Statistical Association (ASA) and a fellow of the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (AMII). His publication record includes more than 100 peer-reviewed articles in top journals such as AOS, JASA and JRSSB as well as top conferences such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICDM, AAAI, and IJCAI. Dr. Kong currently serves as associate editor of the Journal of the American Statistical Association, the Annals of Applied Statistics, the Canadian Journal of Statistics, and Statistics and its Interface. Additionally, Dr. Kong was a member of the Executive Committee of the Western North American Region of the International Biometric Society, chair of the ASA Statistical Computing Session program, and chair of the webinar committee. He served as a guest editor of Canadian Journal of Statistics and Statistics and its Interface, associate editor of  International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology, guest associate editor of Frontiers of Neurosciences, chair of the ASA Statistical Imaging Session, and member of the Statistics Society of Canada's Board of Directors. He is interested in the analysis of high-dimensional and neuroimaging data, statistical machine learning, robust statistics and quantile regression, trustworthy machine learning, as well as artificial intelligence for smart health.

The designation of ASA Fellow has been a significant honor for nearly 100 years. Under ASA bylaws, the Committee on Fellows can elect up to one-third of one percent of the total association membership as fellows each year.  ASA fellows have an established reputation and have made outstanding contributions to statistical science.