Professor Howell Tong has been elected a member of the Academy of Europe (Mathematics Section) in 2026. Professor Tong is a fellow of the IMS and an emeritus professor of statistics at London School of Economics, a Distinguished Visiting Professor of the Department of Statistics and Data Science at Tsinghua University, China, and the Gregory Chow Distinguished Professor at Xiamen University, China. Professor Tong has been awarded several honors, including: the Guy Medal in Silver from the Royal Statistical Society; the State Natural Science Award (Second Class) of China; and a Distinguished Research Achievement Award from the University of Hong Kong. He was elected as a Foreign Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters in the Mathematics Group.

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