Howell Tong - Curriculum Vitae#

• BSc, MSc, PhD (1972), University of Manchester
  
• Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Statistics, UMIST (1970 - 1982)
  
• Founding Chair of Statistics, Chinese University of Hong Kong (1982 - 1985)
  
• Chair of Statistics, University of Kent (1986 - 1999)
  
• Chair of Statistics & Pro-Vice-Chancellor, University of Hong Kong (1999 - 2004)
  
• Chair of Statistics, London School of Economics (1999, Emeritus since 2009)

• Elected Member, International Statistical Institute (1983)
  
• Fellow, Institute of Mathematical Statistics (1993)
  
• Honorary Fellow, Institute of Actuaries (1999)
  
• Foreign Member, Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (2000)
  
• State Natural Science Prize (China) (2000)
  
• Distinguished Research Achievement Award, University of Hong Kong (2002)
  
• Guy Medal in Silver, Royal Statistical Society (2007)
  
• Saw Swee Hock Professorships, National University of Singapore (2009, 2010)
  
• Distinguished Achievement Award, International Chinese Statistical Association (2012)
  
• Senior Fellow, Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Bologna (2014)

• Associate Editor: JRSS-B (1991–94), Statistica Sinica (1991 - 1999), Biometrika (1996 - 2013)
  
• Guest/Joint Editor: The Statistician (1988); Chaos and Prediction, Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. (1994)
  
• Series Editor: Nonlinear Time Series and Chaos, World Scientific (1993 - present)
  
• General Editor: Applied Probability and Statistics Series, Chapman & Hall/CRC (1997 - 2017)

• Swiss Federal Polytechnic, Zurich (1987)
  
• Fourier University, Grenoble (1990)
  
• University of British Columbia (1997)
  
• Chinese Academy of Sciences (2000 - 2004)
  
• University of Western Australia (2002)
  
• University of Hong Kong (Distinguished Visiting Professor, 2004 - 2014)
  
• University of Electronic Science & Technology of China (2016 - 2021)
  
• Tsinghua University (2019– )
  
• Xiamen University (Gregory Chow Distinguished Visiting Professor, 2024 - present)

• President, Hong Kong Statistical Society (1983 – 1984)
  
• Chair of European Section, Bernoulli Society (1999–2001)
  
• Invited nominator for Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2001)
  
• Member, Award Committee, ICSA (2008 - 2011)
  
• Special Co-opted Member, Honours Committee, Royal Statistical Society (2011 - 14)

• Co-organiser, Royal Society Discussion Meeting on Chaos & Forecasting (1994)
  
• Invited Speaker, Joint IMS/ICSA Meeting, Hong Kong (2001)
  
• Organiser, International Workshop on Nonlinear Time Series Analysis, NUS (2012)
  
• Scientific Organiser, Non-likelihood Based Statistical Modelling, Warwick (2015)

• EPSRC (UK): Dimension reduction for multivariate time series (2005)
  
• Hong Kong RGC: Adaptive testing in non/semi-parametric time series (2003)
  
• UK BBSRC/EPSRC: Nonlinear modelling of vertebrate populations (1998)
  
• Dutch Government: Centre for Nonlinear Dynamics in Economics & Finance (1998)
  
• Royal Bank of Scotland: Risk Management (1996)