Xiaohua Zhou, Distinguished Professor of the Overseas High-Level Talent Recruitment Programs (Innovative Long-term Project) of the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee, Doctoral Supervisor, Chair of the Department of Biostatistics of Peking University, PKU Distinguished Chair Professor of Beijing International Center for Mathematical Research, Vice Dean of National Institute for Regulatory Science of Drug and Medical Device of Peking University, and Vice Dean of Peking University Chongqing Research Institute for Big Data. Chair of International Biometric Society - China, Chair of the Medical Mathematics Professional Committee of the Chinese Mathematical Society, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA), Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS), etc.

Professor Zhou is currently the associate editor of Statistics in Medicine, and the editor-in-chief of Biostatistics & Epidemiology, the official journal of IBS-China. He has published more than 280 SCI academic papers in top international statistical and biostatistical journals such as J. R. Statist. Soc. B, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Annals of Statistics, Biometrika, Biometrics, etc., of which more than 170 are the first or corresponding authors. Professor Zhou's research focuses on statistical methods in diagnostic medicine, design and statistical methods in randomized clinical trials, causal inference methods, mathematical and statistical modeling of the occurrence and development of major epidemics, etc. Served as a member of the US Federal Government Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Medical Devices and Radiological Health Advisory Committee. He has won the Research Career Scientist Award from the U.S. Federal Government Department of Veterans Affairs, Distinguished Overseas Young Scientist Award of the Chinese National Natural Science Foundation, the China Ministry of Education Oversee Distinguished Culture and Education Expert, and the China Ministry of Education Oversee Distinguished Teacher., the Mitchell Prize of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis and Section on Bayesian Statistical Sciences of American Statistical Association, the Best Research Paper Award selected by SCIENCE CHINA-Mathematics. And He presided over the Key Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the key research and development projects of the Ministry of Science and Technology.