Howell Tong#
| Membership Number: | 7412 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | MATHEMATICS |
| Elected: | 2026 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
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| ORCID: | 0000-0002-1303-0765 |
| Publication Link: | https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=5t5s9yMAAAAJ&hl=en |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2025 - now Gregory Chow Distinguished Visiting Professor, Xiamen University, China
- 2009 - now Emeritus Professor of Statistics, London School of Economics, UK
- 2019 - now Distinguished Visiting Professor, Tsinghua University, China
- 1999 - 2009 Chair of Statistics, London School of Economics, UK
- 1999 - 2004 Chair of Statistics, University of Hong Kong
- 1997 - 1999 Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Hong Kong
- 1986 - 1999 Chair of Statistics, University of Kent at Canterbury, England
- 1982 - 1985 Founding Chair of Statistics, Chinese University of Hong Kong
- 1977 - 1982 Senior Lecturer in Statistics, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology
- 1968 - 1977 Demonstrator then Lecturer in Statistics, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology
- 1967 - 1968 Lecturer in Mathematics, Polytechnic of North London
Fields of Scholarship
- Nonlinear systems
- Information geometry
- Statistics (including Generative Statistics, Likelihood Free Statistics)
- Animal Population Dynamics
- Dynamical systems
- Time Series Analysis
- Econometrics
- Chaos
- Model selection
Honours and Awards
- 2012 Distinguished Achievement Award, International Chinese Statistical Association
- 2011-Pao-Lu Hsu Colloquium, Peking University, China
- 2010 & 2009 Saw Swee Hock Professorship of Statistics, National University of Singapore [A very distinguished visiting professorship award]
- 2007 Guy medal in Silver, Royal Statistical Society
- 2002 Distinguished Research Achievement Award, University of Hong Kong. (The highest honour bestowed by the University of Hong Kong in recognition of research achievement by a faculty member.)
- 2000 National Natural Science Prize, China, in February 2001. [The first statistician ever to receive such a prize and one of 15 prize winners across the whole of China and across all disciplines in 2000]
- 2000 Foreign member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (Group 1 Mathematical Subjects)
- 1999 Honorary Fellow, Institute of Actuaries, United Kingdom
- 1993 Fellow, Institute of Mathematical Statistics
- 1983 Elected Member, International Statistical Institute (This is the ISI's version of a fellowship).
