Recently, the paper “Bayesian penalized empirical likelihood and MCMC sampling”, jointly completed by Professor Jinyuan Chang, Professor Chengyong Tang at Temple University in the United States and postdoctoral researcher Yanzheng Zhu has been officially accepted by Journal of the American Statistical Association.

Recently, the paper “Statistical Inference for High-Dimensional Spectral Density Matrix”, jointly completed by Professor Jinyuan Chang, Associate Researcher Qing Jiang of Beijing Normal University at Zhuhai, senior statistical analyst Tucker McElroy from the U.S. Census Bureau, and Professor Xiaofeng Shao from Washington University in St. Louis has been officially accepted by Journal of the American Statistical Association.

On January 4, the 15th Plenary Session of the Sichuan Youth Federation Committee was held in Chengdu. The meeting elected the new leadership team of the 15th Committee of the Sichuan Youth Federation, including the president and standing committee members.

Recently, a ceremony to present the 19th Fok Ying Tung Education Foundation (FYTEF) Higher Education Youth Science Award and Education and Teaching Award was held in Nanjing, Jiangsu. According to the decision made by the expert review organized by the Ministry of Education and the joint meeting of the Foundation’s Board of Directors and Advisory Committee, a total of 10 teachers nationwide were awarded the First Prize of Fok Ying Tung Education Foundation Higher Education Youth Science Award and Education and Teaching Award (5 in each category). Professor Jinyuan Chang was awarded the First Prize of the Youth Science Award.

Recently, the paper “On the Modeling and Prediction of High-Dimensional Functional Time Series”, jointly completed by Professor Jinyuan Chang, Assistant professor Qin Fang at the University of Sydney, Associate professor Xinghao Qiao at the University of HongKong and Professor Qiwei Yao from the London School of Economics and Political Science has been officially accepted by Journal of the American Statistical Association.

Recently, the National Natural Science Foundation of China announced the evaluation results of Major Programs for 2024. Led by Professor Jinyuan Chang of the Joint Laboratory of Data Science and Business Intelligence of Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, and jointly applied by Professor Weidong Liu of Shanghai Jiaotong University, Researcher Xinyu Zhang of the Institute of Mathematics and System Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Professor Gang Kou of our university and Professor Hansheng Wang of Peking University (in the order of subject), the Major Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China “Statistical Management Theory of Large scale Business Scenarios” has been officially approved. This is the first time that Southwestern University of Finance and Economics has been approved as a leading institution for a Major Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China.

Recently, the National Natural Science Foundation of China announced the project evaluation results for 2024.

Recently, the paper “Edge differentially private estimation in the β – model via jittering and method of moments”, jointly completed by Professor Jinyuan Chang and doctoral student Hu Qiao from the Joint Laboratory of Data Science and Business Intelligence at Southwest University of Finance and Economics, Professor Eric D. Kolaczyk from McGill University in Canada, Professor Yao Qiwei from the London School of Economics and Political Science in the UK, and Professor Yi Fengting from Yunnan University, has been officially accepted by the top international academic journal “Annals of Statistics”.

Congratulations to Dr. Huang Guanglin, a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory, for his paper “Research on High Dimensional Dynamic High Order Moment Investment Portfolio Based on Factor Structure: Optimization and Semi Parameter Estimation” (supervised by Lu Wanbo), which has been selected for the “2023 Contemporary Economics PhD Innovation Project”! This project was established by the Contemporary Economics Foundation with the aim of inspiring outstanding doctoral graduates in economics from Chinese universities who aspire to make innovative contributions in the field of economics, encouraging them to devote themselves to research in cutting-edge academic fields and contribute to the innovative development of economic science. The project is held once a year, and 10 excellent papers are selected each time.