Dr. Yehua Li is Professor in Statistics at University of California at Riverside. He got his Ph.D. in Statistics in 2006 from Texas A&M University. Before joining UCR in 2018, he held faculty positions in the University of Georgia and Iowa State University. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute, and a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2012. He has served on the editorial boards of Canadian Journal of Statistics, Journal of Multivariate Analysis and Stat. His research interests include functional and longitudinal data analysis, non- and semi- parametric methods, spatial statistics, measurement error, mixture models, cardiovascular disease and neuroimage.