Events

INCEPTION OF IDEAS
Seminar series where innovation begins

Organized by Business Analytics Group of IIM

Professor Howell Tong
Emeritus Professor in Statistics at LSE
Distinguished Visiting Professors at Tsinghua University and Xiamen University

In this talk, I’ll recount the background in time series analysis in the 1970s and explain why I decided to be a rebel.

Prof. Howell Tong is the Distinguished Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University, the Zou Zhizhuang Distinguished Visiting Professor at Xiamen University and Emeritus Professor of Statistics at the London School of Economics. He previously served as Chair Professors at London School of Economics and the University of Hong Kong. His administrative leadership roles includes serving as the Founding Chair of the Department of Statistics at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and the Founding Dean of the Graduate School and Pro-Vice-Chancellor at the University of Hong Kong.

Prof. Tong is a pioneer in nonlinear time series analysis and the founder of threshold time series models. He has received numerous prestigious honors, including the Royal Statistical Society’s Guy Silver Medal, the National Natural Science Award (Second Class Prize) of China, the Outstanding Achievement Award from the International Chinese Statistical Association, election as a Foreign Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, and a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. He has also served on the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences Nomination Committee.