The National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) has recently announced the evaluation results of its 2025 project applications. Two projects from our team have been successfully awarded funding by Young Scientists Fund (Category C): “Clustering and Covariance Estimation of High-Dimensional Functional Time Series” led by Dr. Cheng Chen, and “Statistical Learning of Causal Chain Graph Models: Methods and Applications” led by Dr. Wei Zhou.

Recently, the Office of the National Postdoctoral Management Committee and the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(CPSF) announced the evaluation results of the 2025 Postdoctoral Fellowship Program of CPSF. The project “Research on Sufficient Dimension Reduction Theory and Algorithms under Complex Data Conditions” led by postdoctoral fellow Shuang Dai has been approved for the Postdoctoral Fellowship Program of CPSF (Band C).

From July 2nd to 3rd, 2025, the plenary session of the 14th committee of the All-China Youth Federation（ACYF） was held in Beijing. The session reviewed work reports, discussed and amended the ACYF Constitution, and elected the new leadership for the federation. Prof. Jinyuan Chang was elected as a member of the 14th Committee of All-China Youth Federation.

The China Postdoctoral Science Foundation has recently announced the results of the 77th batch (2025) of its General Program funding review. Two projects led by our postdoctoral fellows have been successfully awarded funding.

The paper “Efficient Learning of DAG Structures in Heavy-tailed Data”, co-authored by Dr. Wei Zhou from our team, Prof. Wei Zhong and doctoral student Xueqian Kang of Xiamen University, and Prof. Junhui Wang of The Chinese University of Hong Kong, has been officially accepted by Statistica Sinica.

The paper “Bayesian Penalized Empirical Likelihood and MCMC Sampling”, co-authored by Prof. Jinyuan Chang from our team, Prof. Chengyong Tang of Temple University (USA), and postdoctoral researcher Yuanzheng Zhu from our team, has been officially accepted by the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B, one of the most prestigious journals in the field of statistics.

The paper “Statistical Inference for High-Dimensional Spectral Density Matrix”, co-authored by Prof. Jinyuan Chang from our team, Qing Jiang of Beijing Normal University at Zhuhai, Senior Statistical Analyst Tucker McElroy from the U.S. Census Bureau, and Prof. Xiaofeng Shao from Washington University in St. Louis, has been officially accepted by the Journal of the American Statistical Association, a leading journal in the field of statistics.

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.