Jinyuan Chang earned his Ph.D. in economics from the Guanghua School of Management, Peking University, in July 2013. From September 2013 to February 2017, he conducted postdoctoral research at the School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne, Australia. Currently, he serves as Executive Dean of the Institute for Statistics and Interdisciplinary Innovation at Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, as well as Director of the Joint Laboratory for Data Science and Business Intelligence. He is also a research fellow at the Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Awards and honors
2019: the First Prize of 12th Outstanding Scientific Achievement Paper Award by the Chinese Association of Quantitative Economics, the Third Prize of the 18th Excellent Social Science Achievement Award in Sichuan Province
2018: the First Prize of Liu Shibai Fund for Outstanding Scientific Achievement
2015: the Distinguished Expert of Sichuan Province
2013: the 11th Zhongjiaqing Mathematics Award, the Chinese Mathematical Society
Fundings and projects
2025.01 – 2029.12: Major Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China, “Statistical management theory of large scale business scenarios”
2025.01 – 2029.12: Project of the Major Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China, “Data science theory in large-scale nusiness scenarios”
2024.01 – 2024.12: Tianyuan Fund for Mathematics, National Natural Science Foundation of China, “Statistical inference of microstructure noise in high-dimensional high-frequency financial data”
2022.01 – 2026.12: National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars of China, “Fast algorithm and theoretical analysis for solving ultra high dimensional econometric models”
Editorial services
2025.01 – present: Standing Committee Member, Director of the Social Science Circle of the 15th Committee of Sichuan Youth Federation
2023.06 – present: Vice Chairman of Multivariate Analysis Branch of Chinese Association for Applied Statistics
2023.06 – present: Vice Chairman of Economic and Financial Statistics Branch of of Chinese Association for Applied Statistics
2023.01 – present: Associate Editor of Journal of the American Statistical Association
2022.12 – present: Executive Council Member of the Probability and Statistics Branch of the Chinese Mathematical Society
Research direction and team members
Research direction 1: Complex data analysis methods and their theories
latest news
Professor Jinyuan Chang and postdoctoral researcher Yuanzheng Zhu’s research paper has been officially accepted by Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B
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.
Professor Jinyuan Chang’s research paper 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.
Professor Chang Jinyuan was elected as as the Standing Committee Member and Director of the Social Science Circle of Sichuan Youth Federation
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.
Professor Jinyuan Chang was awarded the First Prize of the 19th Fok Ying Tung Education Foundation Higher Education Youth Science Award
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.
Professor Jinyuan Chang’s research paper has been officially accepted by Journal of the American Statistical Association
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.
Professor Jinyuan Chang’s team has been approved for the Major Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China
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.
Associate Professor Jing He has been approved for the General Project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China
Recently, the National Natural Science Foundation of China announced the project evaluation results for 2024.
Professor Jinyuan Chang’s research paper has been officially accepted by Annals of Statistics
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".
Guanglin Huang, a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory, has been selected for the “2023 Contemporary Economics PhD Innovation Project”
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.
Professor Jinyuan Chang and Associate Professor Jing He’s research paper has been officially accepted by the Journal of the American Statistical Association
Recently, the paper "Statistical inferences for complex dependence of multimodal imaging data" co-authored by Professor Jinyuan Chang and Associate Professor Jing He from the Joint Laboratory of Data Science and Business Intelligence at Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, PhD student Mingcong Wu, and Professor Jian Kang from the University of Michigan has been officially accepted by the top international academic journal in statistics, the Journal of the American Statistical Association.
Professor Jinyuan Chang’s research paper has been officially accepted by Bernoulli
Recently, the paper "Central limit theories for high dimensional dependent data" co-authored by Professor Jinyuan Chang from Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Professor Xiaohui Chen from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, and PhD student Mingcong Wu from Southwestern University of Finance and Economics has been officially accepted by Bernoulli, an internationally renowned academic journal in probability and statistics.
Professor Chang Jinyuan’s research paper has been officially accepted by the Journal of Econometrics
Recently, the paper "An autocovariance based learning framework for high-dimensional functional time series" jointly completed by Professor Jinyuan Chang and postdoctoral researcher Cheng Chen from the Joint Laboratory of Data Science and Business Intelligence at Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Associate Professor Xinghao Qiao from the London School of Economics, and Professor Qiwei Yao has been officially accepted by the top international academic journal of econometrics.
Professor Jinyuan Chang’s research paper has been officially accepted by the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B
Recently, the paper "Modeling matrix time series via a tensor CP-composition" co-authored by Professor Jinyuan Chang, Associate Professor Jing He, PhD student Lin Yang, and Professor Qiwei Yao from the London School of Economics and Political Science at the Joint Laboratory of Data Science and Business Intelligence at Southwestern University of Finance and Economics has been officially accepted by the top international academic journal in statistics, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B.