I  was born in Guangdong, China.  I  got a Bachelor degree in Peking University, China, a Master degree in Academia Sinica, Beijing, China, and a PhD degree in North Carolina University at Chapel Hill, USA.   I  was a postdoc research fellow at Harvard University.  I   was a visiting research fellow at University of Rochester and Princeton University, USA.   I am   a tenured Full Professor at Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, National University of Singapore.  I have  trained seven PhD students and a number of postdoc fellows.  I have  published more than 70 research papers, two monographs, and an edited book of research papers.   I have been Associate Editor of a few statistical journals.  I  have  served as a member of several scientific committees for several big international conferences. My research areas  include Nonparametric Regression, Longitudinal data analysis, Functional data analysis and High-dimensional data analysis among others.