Professor Xiaohui Chen of Statistics has recently won the International Chinese Statistical Association (ICSA) 2019 'Outstanding Young Researcher Award'. This award is presented to young scholars in recognition of outstanding research in statistical theory, methodology, and/or applications. Xiaohui's fundamental contributions to high-dimensional statistics, time series analysis and statistical machine learning, in particular Gaussian approximation to U-statistics and covariance matrix estimations were cited by the ICSA for bestowing this award. 

Xioahui Chen was one of three recipients of the distinguished award from the ICSA. For more information, please see: http://www.icsa.org/icsa/award/outstanding-young-researcher-award-2019